All About Your Child

Are you watching what your kids are playing on Facebook?

Today I received a Facebook message:

“hv u ever play vombie farm.
my credit bill rcvd for two mths,
charged me one hundred over dollars
convert fm usd mthly for playing this game
by the boys.
any knowledge of this game, is it got any auto buying while playing.”

*** My friend’s boys are only 5 and 7 years old.

As the world is so filled with all sorts of entertainment, it is so easy to find a ‘temporary nanny’ just to look after our kids for that few minutes or even an hour.

It used to be

“Go play with your Toys Or “Go watch Cartoons…... Let me (parent/nanny/guardian) do some work first.”

Now it has become

“Go play with your Facebook games. Let me (parent/nanny/guardian) do some work first.”

The PC or the Internet has become our ‘temporary nanny’ which we could easily seek help from, so that we could get a few minutes or even a few hours of break from the noisy little ones.

This ‘temporary nanny’ has proven its worth time and time again. First, ‘she’ has the ability to capture the kid’s attention 100%! Next, ‘she’ brings joy to them; you hear laughter and never cries. Of course, you must be fair, it has to be one PC to one child. ‘She’ is so popular, your kids would fight over ‘her’.

But what could be the damage?

Poorer eyesight? Autism? Social and communication skill decreased? Bonding with the family reduced? And/or even the lost in monetary terms, just like the message I received this morning.

Do you really know what your child is doing on the Internet?

Do you give them 100% freedom to do whatever they want on social media sites like Facebook?

Do you put restrictions on what they can play or do?

Do you?

‘She’ is a great nanny, but ‘She’ is still a non-living thing afterall, should you have full trust in ‘Her’? What is the relationship between your Kids and Facebook?

When I was badly beaten down by a sudden illness last week, many have asked me what did I eat or do differently from usual.

I thought really hard, do not remember eating anything unusual. But doing something extraordinary? YUP!

But I do not see the link between my illness and this:

Keatkeat’s school was selected as a participant in the Torch Bearer Relay on Thursday, 12 August 2010. This event is to promote the Olympic Values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect.

His school supported the event and we were invited to join in the joyous celebration too. So we watched the parade buses drove passed (see above).

Then we saw the perspiration-filled girl, the Torch Bearer, ran passed (see below).

Unless you tell me that I breathed in too much car soot or carbon monoxide, if not, I really cannot relate this event to why I fell so damn sick that very night…

Its still a mystery man….