Hi,

it’s quite sad, really. But don’t tell her even after she gives birth, because she might get post-natal depression. Perhaps it is better to tell her now? But also tell her that she can get a better husband, and comfort her as much as you can.
That’s what I think. Maybe arrange a date to talk it over?

Jennifer:

Thanks all for the warm welcome.


At present, my elder boy is with Modular Education @ Bt Timah Plaza. Prob is there were only 2 children when we started after the Jun hols. The other classmate has dropped out midway, leaving only my boy now. The centre has agreed to continue for next term on a 1-1 basis at no extra charge(which I am very grateful for) even though they do not have a policy for such arrangement (ie 1-1).

Modular Education specialises in Maths and English. The Chinese dept is outsourced to an agency. I met the person in charge during the open house and she told me she is from a centre specialising in Chinese located in Thomson Plaza.

My boy's Chinese has improved greatly as the school materials (HC) is repeated again at the tuition centre in greater details. His grades in tingxie has gone up from 50-60+ to 70-80+.

I hv heard that Berries is for young children and Tien Hsia for upper primary. But I doubt my boy would ever want to attend Tien Hsia once he knows about their weekly spelling list He does not like the subject.

I am now thinking of dropping HC next year so that he concentrates on NC for PSLE. It's so difficult to get him to self study for NC too.

As for the younger boy, he is more playful. So I think a play environment would suit him. He's not the sit down to do guy.

Btw do we need to pay for trial lesson?

Been busy this week, hv yet to explore this forum extensively :oops:

TIA your advices.

:congrats: You child is considered good already!
Hi, (I am a newbie)
I am a Primary 5 student and :sad: I feel that your son is so lucky! My Chinese is horrible...3 out of 6 Chinese tingxie, need to redo (below 70).
Only 3 out of the 6 Chinese tingxie is 90/100 and above! My mother usually scolds me because of this.
Do you have any other good 'Chinese Improvement' Centres that you can recommend? (I go to HAN Language Centre, but I still am horrible, and it had not really helped me. Not saying that the tuition centre is horrible! Just saying that it didn't help me.)
Thanks a lot!
(By the way, if this is a little comfort to some very 'kiasu' parents that think their child is horrible even though they get a lot better than me, this is from the girl that failed Normal Chinese! and had less than 70% for my P4 total score percentage.)

also-mummy:

DD has been learning piano since 7 years old. She is 15 this year and is doing Grade 6 (consider as slow as some already doing G8 in secondary school). She has been telling me that she has no interest in piano and wants to quit. My husband and I are against it cos we find that its a waste to quit halfway. She could also use it to earn a livelihood in the future or if she has a family next time, she can be a part time piano teacher so that she is able to spend time with her children while teaching at home (something that I am unable to do as I did not have the chance to learn piano when I was young). We feel that at this stage, she still does not know what is good for her. However, we can sense that she dreads going for piano classes, she says that its so boring. Its also very difficult to get her to practice, she would give excuses or will just skim through just to satisfy us. We have tried talking to her numerous times telling her the benefits of learning piano, somtimes she would just shrug it off with an unwilling attitude, other time, she would get into a \"debate\" with us on why learning piano is of no use to her. Sometimes, we are tempted to let her quit, it could save us a few hundred dollars too. However, most of the time, we find that one should not give up half way. At the same time, we are also afraid that if we allow her to quit halfway, it would also influence her brother into quitting piano too. We are quite lost and wonder if any other parents have similar experience and how did you handle it?

I am not a parent , but I have been through this before. My parents have signed me up for piano since I was 5-6 years old (!!!) and only now (I am in Primary 5) am I in Grade 3! :yikes:

My mother also signed my younger brothers up, and just a few days ago my brother wanted to quit, but my mother used her Amazing Powers Of Persuasion to persuade him to not quit, though he is still very...upset over the need to play the piano. (Actually, my parents felt the temptation too, as they were spending a lot of money on this, only to have us waste it, but they felt that it would be a waste to quit halfway)

I am also like that, though I actually like playing the piano, but to my OWN WISHES, and not like, 'okay you tell me to practice, I immediately will' kind of type. I am the 'procrastinate, then quickly hurry revise and do' type. :offtopic: <--a bit, you have to admit...

I think the best solution, is to try to sympathise with her, then play 'guilty cards', as that was what my mother did with my brother. And he finally relented...
Hope this helps! (And please don't mind my horrible spelling...I am absolutely horrible at spelling)