All About Your Child

How to become a nagy parent? That’s a piece of cake. Just be overly-concern and overly protective of your child; and there you have it. You are a certified nagy parent.

I am guilty of that some times, especially when it comes to situation where one mistake could cause a scar of a lifetime.

“stay away from the hot water…if it touches you, your skin could drop off…”

“stay away from the stove when Mommy and Papa is cooking…the fire will burn you like the way you saw the paper burnt…”

“watch your fingers….your toes….when opening the door…”

“keep your hands away from the sliding door of the lift….”

Almost half a year ago, Binbin’s 2nd right toe-nail was literally lifted off his tiny toe, all because he was too excited to open the main door to welcome back his Ah Yee. That was a lesson he will never forget. The blood, the many weeks of caution, when at play, before his new toe-nail finally grew back. Binbin remembers, till this very day.

I have a friend, Christina, who believes that its better to let her children experience the pain than to describe it to her 2 boys. She believes that it leaves a deeper impression; but she is far from being abusive. Her heartaches but she thinks its necessary in parenting.

For example, after boiling a kettle of water, she would ask her children, “you know why I say never come near to a kettle when I am boiling it? This is why…put a finger on the kettle now….”

Being curious kids, they do, and do they remember ‘never to get near the kettle again’? You bet!

Keatkeat has reached the age where experience speaks louder than words. He has been warned over a thousand times to keep his hands off the sliding door of the lift. Kicking the habit seems to be really hard for him, till yesterday.

Yup! His left hand, four fingers were stuck in the small gap between the retracting door and the lift frame. The lift door was still dragging his fingers deeper into the frame when we realised Keatkeat was crying. Allan try to pull the door in the opposite direction while I try to pull out the hand of the screaming Keatkeat.

My heart was pounding like crazy….my mind was running wild….scary thoughts were flying in my brain….

Thank God, all was well. All 4 fingers are out, blue-black, no broken bones. Do you think he kicked his bad habit of putting his hands on the door now, 100% yes!

When I was hanging out the laundry today, I saw this :

My neighbour staying below my unit, was sun-bathing her daughter’s Winnie the Pooh Bear. Something so cute dangling 9 storey high, must be quite scary for that huggable.

Carried my 3-year-old to see this uncommon sight.

“Mommy, why got Winnie the Pooh there?”

“He is sun-bathing.”

“Why?”

“Maybe he just bathed.”

“I want to bathe my bear-bear too. Then I can hang bear-bear out sun-bathing too.”

Wriggled down and ran to the room, took his white bear, dump it into the basin and turned on the tap. In less than 2 seconds, “Ok! Hang bear-bear out.”

And so I did as I was commanded. Almost at that very moment my hands left his bear, Binbin said, “Bear-bear very scared.”

“You want bear-bear to come in?”

“Mm.” Nodding vigorously.

Took the bear in and handed it to it’s owner, who hug it a little and frown, “But he very wet! Hang him out again.”

“But you said he is very scared, right?”

“Nevermind, he so wet, he can’t sleep with me. Hang him out. HUmph!” Crossed his arms and stomped out of the kitchen, as if to avoid hearing the plea from the bear ‘don’t hang me out, don’t hang me out….’

Its amazing how he can make decision logically more than emotionally nowadays….I love handling 3 years-old, their characteristics are just so fun.