Grace Dislikes School..

She's going through a phase where she dislikes school..  

Every morning, she will not fail to try her luck. 

- My teacher say today is a school holiday..

- My teacher say today no need to go to school..

- Today my stomach is pain, can i don't go to school?

- Can i go to work with you today?

- Can i don't go to school today because i love you mummy.. 

When asked why she doesn't likes school, she always tells me they do boring stuffs in school like learn to write A, I, O, P, 1, 2, 3 (ok, maybe is my fault.. But she attended 2 years of pre-school prior to this, so she already is all done with those alphabets and numbers.. She's now into doing additions, mind games and challenging puzzles etc at home when the rest of her classmates are still stuck at ABC and 123, so maybe it explains why she finds school boring and slow.. )

Half of me wants to pull her out of school because i fear she will end up hating school if i don't.

Another part of me feels that there has to be a routine for her because when she heads to P1, she has to go thru school even thou she may not like it. 

Another reason is also because she cannot be stuck at home the whole day wasting time.. She needs to go school and mix around with other kids of her age and play with them..

So what do you think i should do? 

I do know of some parents whose kids to skip pre-school altogether and only attends enrichment programs. But i am not a SAHM where i have the luxury of coaching her the whole day..  I will have to return to work next week and may even have to work late on weekdays, so she might end up being all alone at home if i take her out of school completely.. 

Ok.. Am in dilemma..  Throw suggestions at me please!!.. :D

Me, Myself and I

Gosh.. Been busy of late!! The blog has again been a neglected victim of my "BUSY-ness".. *giggles*

Am now on a 2 weeks break.. And, well.. I AM even BUSY-ier.. 

Before my break, i was busy with work (what's new anyway), monitoring Nick on his work, dropping the kids at the enrichment classes blah blah blah.. 

Now that i am on my break.. I am lagee busy!!

 

Mornings, I try to spend my time with little missy.. Without fail, the 1st thing she does when she opens her eyes is to say "mummy, today you not going to work hor?? You are staying at home with me right?" And since i am at home, she will insist i bathe for her and not the maid.. :(  After that, we will either stroll to the MacDonalds or market for breakfast, then return home to do some "studying" before she heads to school for 3 hours.. When the maid fetches her home, the first thing she asks is "WHERE IS MY MUMMY??" and she will run into the study to check if i had "escaped" out while she's at school.   :P

Usually in the afternoons when the 3 kids are home.. 

Some days, i bring Sam out alone without the 2 younger ones because since the arrival of the 2 younger ones, we haven't really spent a lot of time alone.. Other days, i bring Nick and Grace out to the playground.. And just yesterday, because Sam doesn't have to go to school (means no homework for the day), they 3 monkies and me caught a movie together.. 

On some of the afternoons when i manage to escape out without the kids, i would be in bookshops, spending my afternoons shopping for books.. Or in art shops looking around for scrapbook papers, attending scrapbooking / altered art / stamping and coloring classes etc.. It's really a bliss to be able to spend some time learning a hobby. Nevertheless, hubby's been complaining.. haha.. It's a really very expensive hobby. Each 2 hours lesson will range between 75-90 bucks, after that, i will shop and buy some other stuffs home.. And a simple chop, will cost around 30 bucks, the markers, stamp pads etc also cost an arm and a leg.. 

* my new mimi chop collection!!

I originally had big plans of bringing Nick to Cameron Highlands to pluck strawberries, but fear that Grace will end up crying buckets, i aborted the big plan (daddy couldn't take leave, so i had to bring them alone if i wanted to go)..

Well, another week before heading back to work.. I sure have to fully utilize my time with the kids since not too sure when will the next long break be. :)

Life at 6yo..

Sometimes, it makes me wonder why do they need to make kids at 6yo learn the spelling and "ting xie" of long and complicated words.. 

Nick's spelling words for this coming Tuesday..

1. Water cycle

2. Evaporation

3. Condensation 

4. Precipitation

5. Collection

Ting Xie for the next few Thursdays..  6 words a week.. This coming Thursday, it will be the 5 words on the 1st row..

*Poor mummy has to ask papa how to read them and write the Han Yu Pin Ying on top of the words.. :( 

Crazy Over Angry Bird..

Hubby was so sweet.. He came home with a set of small plush toys.. :) Made my day :)

Angry!!

It's 3 days since the incident and i am still mad!! Really!! It's not me to get mad for so long and over such people especially i don't even know that person! 

We were at Jusco in JB.. Nick has a habit of making us buy him books from the Harris bookshop everytime we try to convince him to go JB.. Anyway, there's really nothing bad about buying books.. But i hate it when they have the so-call book fair at the reading area where the kids reads and some sales people trying to make you buy some so called very good and cannot live without encyclopedias!.. 

And, being 95% English speaking, my kids don't probably speak mandarin as much as most local children do and they also won't be able to understand what those salesman are talking half the time!!. 

Anyways, what made me hopping mad was.. This idiotic salesman, walked up to Nick, spoke to him in chinese while Nick was busy reading his Ben 10 story book. Nick didn't even answered or looked at him (well, mummy say DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS right?), then the next instant, the salesman started verbally abusing the Nick loudly saying he is "STUPID" and "RUDE"!!  The best part was, daddy was seated next to Nick, was too SHOCK to react!!.. 

I was 2 bookshelf away, and i heard that person using those words, so i walked out to make sure that Grace and Nick were near their father only to realized that it was my son that the person was scolding!. 

I walked up straight to the salesman, and told him loudly to mind his language he used on my kids and that my son isn't STUPID!! And why did he say that my son was RUDE to him?? 

He told me that he spoke to the boy and he completely ignored him! So i asked him loudly (weirdly, i was mad and yet calm enuff not to slap him).. "Did your parents not teach you NOT TALK TO STRANGERS?? "

Well, he didn't apologize!! He actually "proceed" to sell me his set of RM2000, reduced to RM900 encyclopedias!  

I simply walked away with probably a lot of steam coming out of my nostral and ears!.. 

And i guess the reason for me to be hopping mad up to now is because i haven't given him a piece of my mind!!..!! 

And!!. Hubby later told me he actually did that to 2 other parents and they bought the set of books from him because he said that their child was STUPID!!

Such an IDIOT!!! ARGH!!!