All About Your Child

This coming Monday, ((OMG! Did I just said ‘This coming Monday’?!?!)) Keatkeat is going to the Big School, for a length of time which is DOUBLE of what he spent in Kindergarten. During the Primary One Orientation, the principal mentioned some of the most common fears of parents of Primary 1 students:-

1. Fear that their children will get lost in the BIG compound.
2. Fear that their children do not know how to buy food for themselves.
3. Fear that their children will not fit into the new environment and start crying.
4. Fear that their children will not get ‘enough’ attention from the teachers, now that the class is bigger.
5. Fear that their children do not know where the toilet is.

My fears? My worries, are NONE of the above.

Because of Keatkeat’s motor skills, I fear he might drop the plate of food while trying to struggle to hold the money, wallet, spoon, fork or chopsticks. So I have been training him to get the sequence right.

Pay first – Take Change (if any) – Check if Change is correct – Put Change into the wallet – Put wallet into his pocket – Take utensils (spoon/fork/chopsticks) with left hand – Hold plate/bowl of food with right hand.

**I intend to give me more loose change so that he can give the exact amount.

During training, I tried to ‘add a little weight’ by putting tiny balls of paper. He still drops something, somehow. I cannot imagine if he is holding a bowl of macaroni soup!!! *heart sank*

So I told him, worse come to worst, take the bowl/plate of food to the table first, get his *buddy to look after, while he goes back to take the utensils. (*an older student will be assigned to every Primary One kid during the first week or two at every recess.)

NEXT…

I am worried about his nose. As usual. All my ‘old-time’ readers know the battle I had with his nose for 7 months. The battle needed 3 posts to FULLY expressed how much ‘struggles‘ Keatkeat and I had gone through.

It took 7 months – the Beginning
It took 7 months – the Progress
It took 7 months – the Finale

Though its been ‘Solved‘ then, its different now….

He can no longer run to the sink, everytime he sneezes, like he used to when he was in Kindergarten. The sink was INSIDE the classroom.

My boy has an issue whenever he wipes his nose with tissue paper. He wipes it across his face!!! Mucus is like rouge across the cheeks! *faint*

I have corrected. I have demonstrated. I have held his hand and guided him the ‘right’ way of wiping (for ONE year) but he still does it ‘his‘ way! *faint*

Other then making himself untidy, he sneezes MORE! *eyes rolled*

Only when he washes his nose, does he truly stops sneezing.

The toilet is far from his Primary ONE classroom. It is just unimaginable, if he had to keep running in and out of the classroom just to get his nose washed.

*Deep Sigh*

My Worries are truly Like NONE Other…..Hhmmm…

‘GuoDong’ is  like New Year to the Chinese. On this special day, everyone is older by one. If I were to include this day as my birthday, I am double my age now! *laugh*

‘Tang Yuan’ is a MUST-eat on this day too. Every year, we will celebrate over at my in-laws’ place.

Yet, during this time of the year, I will always remember the days when I was staying with my Auntie, getting my hands all floury, rolling the colourful dough into small balls. Mine are ALWAYS the smallest. *giggle* I was only 4-5 years old then! Small ‘Tang Yuan‘ for small me. *wink*

Since its always around Christmas time, we took this opportunity to give presents to the kids. That’s the beauty of Christmas, isn’t it? Its just CONTAGIOUS!  Even though none of my in-laws are Christians, they do celebrate the Festive of Giving.

Yes, unwrapping was fun. But guess who was the one clearing up the mess after all the fun? The most hardworking grandmother. *Salute*

The STAR today was Keatkeat! Saw that furry fox which Binbin held at the end of the video?

Keatkeat could not find it. Everyone thought he had thrown it away with all the torn wrappers. My MIL was consoling. He said sorry to my 2nd SIL who flew that fox over from Japan. Sadness was all over the 6 year old boy’s face.

Just when he was getting out of that awful mood by playing with his VERY FIRST mini game system, my MIL FOUND the Fox Still nicely Wrapped Up on the corner of the sofa!!!

He was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HAPPY!!!!

It was misplaced way before they started the unwrapping session. What an emotional roller coaster ride for my Keatkeat today! *laugh*

These were the rest of the presents…..

Here’s Wishing All Chinese Friends “Happy Dong Zi!”