2013 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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clay569:
How does your ds react to it? Was he mad at you? Guess we need to act on it tonight.beariecrystal3:
My girl seems to be taking it easy, although she is not doing very well in her school work. She sleeps as usual, watch korean drama, and chat with her friend in whatsapp. We feel like taking away her hp. She just switch off at 830pm almost daily when psle is coming soon.
We took away DS phone abt a month back. The whatapps group messages are hundreds a day so he kept checking his phone. And once he started, he could not stop. We gave many chances and he could not control the usage so we took it away. Since then, there's so much peace at home and he is focusing on his work so much better. -
clay569:
How does your ds react to it? Was he mad at you? Guess we need to act on it tonight.beariecrystal3:
My girl seems to be taking it easy, although she is not doing very well in her school work. She sleeps as usual, watch korean drama, and chat with her friend in whatsapp. We feel like taking away her hp. She just switch off at 830pm almost daily when psle is coming soon.
We took away DS phone abt a month back. The whatapps group messages are hundreds a day so he kept checking his phone. And once he started, he could not stop. We gave many chances and he could not control the usage so we took it away. Since then, there's so much peace at home and he is focusing on his work so much better. -
Jennifer:
They can play games via whatsapp, chat anything .. they actuallly create many group chat. Rarely abt school work.
what do children whatapps about? -
Suz855:
Thank you! it sounds like a good idea!happyheart:
DS wanted to practise writing even though CL tuition centre is giving one assignment each week. Somehow, he is not picking up the techniques to write smoothly ( due to poor CL foundation). School Teacher commented his compo lacks feeling and also the sentence structures are not smooth. Hiaz! I don't :roll: know how to mark his compo. Honestly, I do not think he can pick it up in 3 weeks so I do not want to spend so much time on CL compo but he wants.....
Dd's school cl teacher get them to memorize good phrases .... She also shared during the last ptm meeting that can get the child to practice writing paragraph to describe certain scene or feeling ... Not necessary to write full compo .... If your child is willing to work on it then just let him be, give him time limit like 45 min of practice then move on.... As a supportive role just read what ur ds wrote, suggest some improvement and give some positive comment. I do that with dd, I don't grade her work, I read them n give some suggestion, sometimes I will make her redo her compo with the suggestion
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beariecrystal3:
How does your ds react to it? Was he mad at you? Guess we need to act on it tonight.[/quote]I confiscated dd's phone sometime last yr becos she was involved in a few whatsapp chat groups and the no. of messages were insane, like 1000 in a few hrs :mad: ! Almost all of those messages were nonsensical, some bordering on crude. Dd was very upset & angry, but i did not relent. I explained to her my rationale & she had grudgingly accepted it. I did let her use the phone on a few occasions like during the sch hols. She had recently requested that i return the phone to her after the psle!clay569:
[quote=\"beariecrystal3\"]My girl seems to be taking it easy, although she is not doing very well in her school work. She sleeps as usual, watch korean drama, and chat with her friend in whatsapp. We feel like taking away her hp. She just switch off at 830pm almost daily when psle is coming soon.
We took away DS phone abt a month back. The whatapps group messages are hundreds a day so he kept checking his phone. And once he started, he could not stop. We gave many chances and he could not control the usage so we took it away. Since then, there's so much peace at home and he is focusing on his work so much better. -
I brainwashed DS that Whatsapp is wasting time. FB is also wasting time (Legal age for FB is 13 years old anyway. So I used this as an excuse
).
The school is using Edmodo to communicate with children so I let him use it but I monitor closely. Most of the time I was the one that check Edmodo and tell him if there is new homework or project communication from his classmates.
I guess it is easier to ban him using those since he is a boy -
ngl2010:
Yes, seems like girls have a higher tendency to be hooked on such tools as they are generally more social.I brainwashed DS that Whatsapp is wasting time. FB is also wasting time (Legal age for FB is 13 years old anyway. So I used this as an excuse
).
The school is using Edmodo to communicate with children so I let him use it but I monitor closely. Most of the time I was the one that check Edmodo and tell him if there is new homework or project communication from his classmates.
I guess it is easier to ban him using those since he is a boy -
We sound like the exception here. The kids have smartphones (dd1 has one of the latest HTC phone which my 19 year old nephew was asking her what has she done to get it :? ). I told nephew that it's not my idea. Dh see it more of a communication tool. dd1 also has dataplan as she inherited my line. They have it since P4. The 2 older ones usually hold the phone from morning till evening. They \"surrender\" their phone every night. This is the time that I would do spot check. The P2 only have access to her phone on weekends.
Though dd1 has whatsapp, FB and instalgram and lots of messages on whatsapp, I observed that she is not very active in posting comments. Which to me is a good sign as it shows her level of addiction. They will usually play some games on the bus. Once home, I don't see that level of addiction so far as they know the consequence of it.... mum will confiscate their phones. So don't play play. Once they are home, they usually leave their phones in the living room and don't carry it around with them.
We have seen how my nephew's addiction to computer games led him to struggle academically so this is the last thing we want. The only time they can play freely is when the nieces and nephews are here (family gathering). They can play together to their heart's content. Normal days, they know it's a big no no for me if they are caught playing on their phone regularly. This applies to weekends as well.
Actually the same as PSP, etc... those games along the way. We have those at home but kids can only play during school hols. It come to a point that during school hols, they don't even \"yearn\" for it anymore. It reminds of a friend who visited Africa and they even took up close pics with roaming tigers. Heard that it is fine because there are too much food for those tigers so there is no desire to eat the tourists. So yes hoping that kids respect and view hp as a communication tool rather than an addiction. -
MMM:
We sound like the exception here. .. So yes hoping that kids respect and view hp as a communication tool rather than an addiction.
Your girl is in P2? Perhaps too early to tell, cos at that age, no many of classmates would have a phone or tablet yet, so less likely for her to be drawn in yet. As for the boys, they usually keep to games, which I find not so dangerous. Yes, they get hooked in the games, but it is like a hobby. The socializing is the dangerous one, I feel. -
I am still thinking hard how to improve dd’s comprehension cloze and OE comprehension. She did very very badly in these areas.
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