Helping Parents Succeed
Two hours after J went to school today, only then did I realize she forgot her lunch box. It was packed nicely and the only thing she forgot to do was to put it in her school bag.
Later, K realized her sister’s snack when I was biting into it for breakfast.
He asked, “Hey, that’s sisters’s snack! Why are you eating it?”
“So what should I do instead?” I tested him.
“Send it over to sis.”
I replied, “No. I am not going to do that.” [Read more…]
Though it’s been 5 days after Mother’s Day, there are things that are timeless and never go out-of-date.
In conjunction with this year’s Mother’s Day, Marlo Thomas shared the best piece of advice her mother gave on her blog:
“The most valuable [advice] being her encouragement to follow my own course and seize the career I wanted.”
Excellent! [Read more…]
Two weeks ago, I was rushing to school to fetch K.
Out of good intention, J helped me start the car engine. This wasn’t the first time she did so. But there’s something that she did this time that was unprecedented.
Immediately after she started the engine, she locked the car and slammed the door. That happened in front of my very own eyes. I was in shock and in that instance, I had no time to warn her not to do it.
The result was dismay: the car was locked with the key inside! [Read more…]
After stopping for quite some time, K picked up reading again in the last week or so.
Of course, before that, I tried to encourage him to read but it was just that: light reminder. And no action thereafter.
However, in the past few days, he was infected with some sort of virus that motivates him to read… non-stop. [Read more…]
You see in my neighborhood, there’s an alternative school that encourages children to climb trees.
Yep, it’s true. According to the “followers,” children are born with the right to climb that you should not violate.
If you don’t believe me, pay me a visit and I’ll show you a bunch of kids who are happily climbing up trees without a slight intervention from the parents. Chances are the kids who are up on a tree belong to that school.
To let you in on a secret, I do secretly hope that J and K would have the tree-climbing prowess those kids have. I slightly hinted to them they can do so. They have all my support. [Read more…]