All About Your Child

I like what I did last year. So I am doing it again. *wink*

The first sentence of the first post I wrote for each month in the year 2009…..

January: What a great way to start this new year with this wonderful award given by the sentimental Sandra.
Post Title: Happy New Year!

February: I had one of the most amazing time at my cousin’s house yesterday.
Post Title: Do You?

March: Its been a month since we last went over to my Parent-in-law’s house.
Post Title: Welcome Back Sunday

April: (Dear friends, this is a post I had to struggle with. Please bear with me.)
Post Title: Sons, I’m Sorry, I HATE Your Grandma…

May: *Picture courtesy of Google Images
Post Title: Happy Labour Day

June: My in-laws gave us a surprise visit on last Saturday.
Post Title: The Journey Has Begun

July: This happened on 24th June:
Post Title: Swensen’s One for One Lunch

August: Just before I was hospitalised, for the 2nd time, in the afternoon, kids and I had great fun at Go Go Bambini in the late morning.
Post Title: Stop Smoking Before Your Child Starts

September: Went to see the doctor this morning. Did you ask “WHO”?
Post Title: A Fallen Nurse?

October: Mommy Loves The Two of You Very Much…Happy Children’s Day!
Post Title: Happy Children’s Day

November: For the very first and last time, he celebrated his birthday at his preschool with his classmates and his little brother.
Post Title: Happy 6th Birthday Keatkeat!

December: A child MUST master Lesson 1 before coming to this lesson.
Post Title: Money Lesson 2 for Preschooler

Farewell to A Roller Coaster 2009….

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…