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What is the value of a mother?

Posted in Just about Me, Others, Parenting on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Of  late this question keeps popping into my brain. 
Is mum just a channel for you to arrive in this cold heartless world? 
Is mum just a milk cow giving you the much needed nutrients during the early months of your life? 
Is mum just another pair of hands to keep you clean when you dirty yourself?
Is mum [...]

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Mother’s Day (backdated post)

Posted in Declan, Family, Parenting on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last Thursday, right before bed time, Declan ask for a piece of paper so that he can make a heart shape card for me.  As I was busy thinking through some reno stuffs, I sent him to the dad to get help.  The dad, cut out the heart shape for him and he started colouring [...]

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Bossy Son!

Posted in Declan, Parenting on April 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Declan just stormed in and in a naggy tone said : “mummy! your bag anyhow put and didi go and pull out all your things in the bag.. don’t know how to keep your things properly!”  then *piak*, smacked me on my butt, threw my bag on the bed (I was sprawled on the bed surfing [...]

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Correcting his numbers

Posted in Declan, Parenting, Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »

In my last post, I mentioned that I planned to bring him to my office on Saturday mornings so that I can coach him a little on his writings as well as reading.  We started off the first session last Saturday and I must say the effort was worth it.
I should have done this long [...]

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Time to work harder?

Posted in Declan, Parenting on March 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I was doing bed time reading with Declan yesterday and was a little worried when I realised this boy, who is in K1 this year, can’t count past 13… after 13, he’ll sometimes get it right sometimes get it wrong and he always miss out 15.
The book we were reading was about numbers.  When I [...]

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OUCH!

Posted in Declan, Parenting on February 20, 2009 | 10 Comments »

On Wednesday afternoon, teacher called to informed me that Declan was injured.  My heart sank when I heard that.  Teacher went on to explain to me how the incident happened.  Apparently he got too close to the seesaw, when his friends were playing with it and when 1 side came down, he didn’t manage to [...]

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他们长大了!

Posted in Declan, Kenji, Parenting, Uncategorized on January 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Yesterday, Dec keeps repeating :”我长大了!”  Teacher must have instill this thought into the K1 kids.  I do agree that he has indeed grew up quite a bit over the last few months.  We’ve both noticed that he had grown more sensible.  He knows he is a big kid now.
He used to lug his blankie around [...]

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Happy Birthday My Dear Son

Posted in Kenji, Parenting, Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today marks the 1st year of Kenji’s life. If you ask me, I’ll say that it has come too fast…  My baby is growing at a pace that is much faster than I can catch up.  I yearn to hold a tiny, docile and fully dependent infant in my arm.  I love the feeling of being [...]

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HFMD

Posted in Declan, Parenting on November 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Looking at the title of this post, you’ll be able to guess what has happened over at  my household.

Can see the red spots?  We were happily enjoying our breakfast on Sunday morning when I noticed many red spots on Declan’s hand while he was happily waving in front of me.  I saw it on one [...]

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A pair of 乌龙 parents

Posted in Parenting on November 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Kenji came down with a fever early this week.  Kiat brought him to see a GP.  He went to register first while I stayed home with Kenji as this particular GP always have a long queue at his clinic.  Shortly after he left I received a call from him asking me :” Eh.. how to [...]

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