It’s going into the second week of school and we’re getting
used to the new schedule. Little H is only taking Mandarin, Taekwondo and
Critical Thinking for his extracurricular classes. I really wanted him to
continue with Enopi maths, unfortunately they’ve stopped it for some reason. So
we’ve gone with the Critical Thinking. He’ll be in school until 3pm on Mondays
and Tuesdays, and will have lunch there as well.
H loves his school lunches. It’s a different way of cooking
as compared to the usual stuff we serve him. Bread and curry, noodles with fish
balls, pasta and baked beans, he loves them all. If I mention I want to serve
it at home, he won’t hear of it. It just tastes better in school, or rather
eating with friends make everything tastes better. I've also moved up his dinner to 6.30pm (he usually has it at 5.30pm), that means he has to have a snack around 4pm. Then it's shower at 7pm, storytime and off to bed by 8pm.
This year is
preparation year for entering Primary 1 next year, so it’s time to push him a
little more. At the moment he doesn’t have a proper homework schedule. It’s
more like if we don’t have anything else to do, we’ll do homework. We can’t do
that anymore. Unfortunately, getting him to follow a proper schedule is going
to result in a lot of tears. He turns on the tap very easily nowadays, and even
throws tantrums. It’s difficult to tear him away from TV and toys. Even weaning
him off the IPad after the holidays were excruciating, both for him and me. I’m
not proud to say that I do scream at the kids, because sometimes it’s the only
way to get them to do something. Other times I just resort to simple threats.
IF I’m not too angry, I actually try to reason with them. That takes quite a
while and a WHOLE LOAD of patience, because children do not listen to reason
when they’re tired, angry, sad or even happy for that matter.
We’re
planning a trip to Penang in early February, so I’m looking forward to that. In
fact, we’ve planned quite a few holidays this year, so, yes, life is good :D
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