How much time you spent with your child

[buds]

toddles:

thanks for sharing Buds! gotta get my hands on that book. would be nice to have it to check off... also as a what-to-do idea book!

You are welcome, toddles. :celebrate:

Yup, agree. Would be a good what-to-do idea book.

[SBKS]

nice intro on the book buds.


gog to borrow now. :siam:

[Funz]

Think DD had the chance to experience most of the 101 things that kids should do except for the following


4. Camp in the backyard.
Our backyard to small. But we have camped out in the living room before. We did living room glamping. haha. Set up tent and turn on living room aircon.

17. Do a senior study.
Not sure what that is.

20. Take a night time hike by the light of the moon.
This I think I will make it a point to do. But maybe not in Singapore.

25. Go for a ride in a small airplane.
No chance yet but am sure they will be able to experience it in our future travels.

32. See a classic movie on the big screen
No chance.

33. Go to a parade
NDP rehearsal organised by school counted?

36. Participate in a 'thon'
No chance yet.

45. Write a 'memory letter'.

98. Learn about the family's history.
This mummy and daddy gotta learn first. haha.

DS has not experienced as many things as DD. For instance, preparing a meal, which DD did but DS did not as he has no interest in muddling around in the kitchen now that he is tall enough to reach the stove. DD has a penpal of sorts but DS doesn't and is not inclined to find any.

I like the one where about staying out until the stars come out. We do that a lot on travels as in Singapore you can hardly see any stars. The one inciden that stood out was one Christmas in Port Dickson. We were going back to our chalet when we realised that the sky was very clear and dotted with so many stars. We laid down on the boardwalk and started guessing what stars or constellations they are, like orion's belt, etc. DH has a constellation app on his ipad so he pulled it up and it being christmas, there was this little icon of Santa in his sleigh going across the screen. The kids shrieked in excitement saying it's Santa, and the looked up into the sky hoping to see Santa riding across the sky. Before long, other kids joined us in our star gazing and all were so excited. When we called it a night, we can hear some of the kids saying in wonderment, Santa leh, and others, especially the older ones, going bluff one lah. hahah :love: So innocent.

[SBKS]

this thread talks about we, being the parents, are the busy ones and the kids are the free ones.


Now how about the other way round? Did we load them too many classes till they got no time to spend with us? That the only time spend with them is travelling time with them to their classes?

How many is considered enough?

for those who have kids in full-time child care, and classes on wkends, would loading them with classes on wk nights be too much for them to take?

[Imami]

SBKS:

this thread talks about we, being the parents, are the busy ones and the kids are the free ones.


Now how about the other way round? Did we load them too many classes till they got no time to spend with us? That the only time spend with them is travelling time with them to their classes?

How many is considered enough?

for those who have kids in full-time child care, and classes on wkends, would loading them with classes on wk nights be too much for them to take?

One obvious sign of too much - when your kid fall asleep while eating. Imagine that! No kidding, it happened on my colleague's kid who is exactly like what you say - go to full time cc, loaded with classes on weekday evenings and weekends too.

I personally don't load my kid's with weekday evening classes. Find it too much, after a full day at cc.

[SBKS]

Imami:

One obvious sign of too much - when your kid fall asleep while eating. Imagine that! No kidding, it happened on my colleague's kid who is exactly like what you say - go to full time cc, loaded with classes on weekday evenings and weekends too.

I personally don't load my kid's with weekday evening classes. Find it too much, after a full day at cc.

same here. after full day CC duno hw they tahan the evening classes. wkend already have 2 classes. she want ballet now...duno where to place it.

[janet88]

The moment they come home after school, it’s rush rush chop chop to shower, lunch, clear up, breathe 5-10 min before starting some work. After 30 min, eye kids start to shut. Take nap together.


After waking up, that is the perfect time to learn spelling and then dinner, bath and continuing work/revision.

[ammonite]

janet_lee88:

The moment they come home after school, it's rush rush chop chop to shower, lunch, clear up, breathe 5-10 min before starting some work. After 30 min, eye kids start to shut. Take nap together.


After waking up, that is the perfect time to learn spelling and then dinner, bath and continuing work/revision.

So it is just school and revision all day? I can't take that. Must be so burnt out.

[janet88]

ammonite:

janet_lee88:

The moment they come home after school, it's rush rush chop chop to shower, lunch, clear up, breathe 5-10 min before starting some work. After 30 min, eye kids start to shut. Take nap together.


After waking up, that is the perfect time to learn spelling and then dinner, bath and continuing work/revision.

So it is just school and revision all day? I can't take that. Must be so burnt out.

Son said he goes to school and back home everyday...why is life so miserable? After madness of PSLE, secondary school is no better...in fact, worst, 8-9 subjects.

[mummy so kiasu]

Bring your kids out over the weekends to enjoy & release stress. Can’t just keep studying & doing homework all the time. Will get burn out soon.