School Orientation Day


The day before yesterday, the little boy had his Graduation Concert in the university culture center. It was 7 years ago, Pa & Ma went to a similar event. The pre-school/child care graduation concert is really an inclusive-activities, regardless who you are or any status your family bear in the society, as long as you are from this school/center you will have the chance to shine on the stage with all of your peers.

Yesterday, Pa & Ma brough the little boy to attend the school orientation. The new pricipal came back after having completed her 4-month maternal leave. The little boy sat on the floor of the hall emotionless when the talks were going on.

When Pa & Ma proceeded for the orientation, the little boy was led to the sports hall. After Pa & Ma finished all the administration papers in the classroom, they met with the little boy in the Auditorium, where he was colouring the sheets distributed by the teacher.

When left the school, the little boy told Pa & Ma that he liked the school.

20 Nov 2011 Sunday

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/28765/let-s-start-from-hereRSS for NodeSun, 26 Apr 2026 03:22:46 GMTMon, 28 Nov 2011 08:15:44 GMT60:welcome:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/878476https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/878476Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:57:26 GMTDH was at airport. The time showed the flight had landed. DH rang her Singapore mobile number. The phone was still in switch-off mode. After another two-or-three failed attempts to contact the FDH, DH decided to leave the airport.


The FDH had served her two-year contract. She joined in her family back in her homeland before retuning for a new lease of contract with us. This FDH started with us when DH was working overseas. She did give a lot of help to the family, though we found there were something missed during her employment with us.

During her home visit break, we as a family found what we had missed. DSs suddenly became matured a lot, while DS1 could act as a good big brother to guide DS2. They played and had fun together, enjoying the brotherhood rather than only fighting or quarrelling with each other. They even learned to do some simple house chore, which was impossible when there was a FDH around at home.

One day, DW worried about if the FDH would return or not after the home visit. Then, DW said to herself and the family that she thought we could manage ourselves without a FDH.

There was no FDH at the begining. DS1 grew up with the helps from GPA & GMA and old neighbors, babysitters occasionally. Until DS2 joined in this family, we hired the first FDH. It is a happy starting and ending. After two years, she retuned hometown for good. After that we had a bad experience briefly, before DW chose this FDH who was recommended from DW’s colleague.

“Ring…” DH’s phone rang when he was heading to city direction. FDH was at the arrival hall.

The next two years, we would like to see DS1 & DS2 growing up more. As for now, DS1 has surpassed DW’s height and DH’s weight. DS2 is still trying to make sense with his academic competition, as he is more in a fun learning mode.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/839812https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/839812Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:31:53 GMTLast weekend, DH brought DS2 to DS1’s school to watch DS2 singing in the choir. When DH asked if DS2 would like to perform on the stage like Gege, he shaked his head and said he would be shy.


DW bought two footballs from UK. DS1 and DS2 everyday have their fun time with football before dinner. Currently, there is serial drama Journey To The West shown on Channel 8 at 7pm on week days. They just finish playing football by 7pm and tune on Channel 8 and take their show and have their meals during the commercial intervals of the show.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/795956https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/795956Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:41:10 GMTStatus update: Full-time staying-at-home DH > Full-time Working DH

Effectiuve date: 1st July 2012
Unchanged theme: Full-heart Parenting

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/786925https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/786925Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:24:00 GMTDS1 was preparing for his school’s "idol contest". He downloaded the song from the web and found the software to eliminate the lyric so that he could use it as his living band when he would entered the contest to perform the next day.


When DS1 was rehearsing in his room, DW overheared and then was alarmed by the "kisses" and "making love" in the lyric of the song.

DS1 was upset when DW interfered to ask not to pick this song. He had spent his whole evening time to prepare for his debut of solo.

DH suggested DS1 to consult with his teacher for the properness of the song’s lyric before he would enter his contest the next day.

Finally, DW and DS1 agreed to rewrite that part of lyric.

Later, DW told DH that DS1 did not comprehend what "making love" was.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/766375https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/766375Mon, 21 May 2012 03:54:50 GMTDS1 realised his stationery case must have dropped off from his opened backpack only when he sat down at the desk to start his study at home. His thumb driver was among many items in the case.


DH and DS1 went back to the school and traced all the way from the lecture room to the bus stop. At the near end of the covered pathway leading to the bus station, the bulged stationery case was found over there sitting at the top of the half wall. Someone must have placed it there after having spotted the stationery case on the pathway earlier.

The stationery was dropped on the pathway at about 5 pm. And it was back to its owner’s hands at 8 pm. There had been many students and others passing by where the stationery case was during this period.

DH praised the good integrity character of the students. DS1 shared me another story in which he spotted a wallet with more than $100 notes inside at the outside of his classroom and returned it to the school admin office.

There is a Chinese saying: 好心有好报. Indeed, there is a reward for every good deed.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/760485https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/760485Fri, 11 May 2012 05:41:04 GMTMaybe having watched too much Harry Potter, DS2 kept asking what the graveyard is.


DH brought DS2 to Bukit Brown, and DS2 insisted to have a walk along the place.

Pointing to those tombs which were marked with erected wooden plates, DH told DS2 that those tombs would have to be removed to give ways to the new road to be built.

Unbelieving what he heard, DS2 said, "Don’t they scare to wake up those who are asleeping there?"

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/754337https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/754337Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:00:59 GMTDH is reading Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book1984 with DS2.


Father(thinking himself loudly): The story reminds me of the two super powers in the time of cold war…

Son(talking softly): To eat the bread with the butter side down is nothing different from to have it with the butter side up. You spread the butter on the one side of the bread, and you can turn it up or down as you like.

The Lord (speechless): Human beings like to divide themselves among themselves so that there is a reason for one party to be confronted with another. One always wants to lauch something to outdo the other. And it calls for an inconventional wisdom and courage to break this vicious cycle.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/743647https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/743647Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:37:37 GMTDS2 was asking DH to bring him to the post office to buy stamps. Yes, the stamps used for posting the snail mails.


It started with one day when he received a letter from one of his K2 classmates who’s studying in another Primary school now. DS2 was excited to read the letter and eagered to write a letter for return and posted it in a mail box by himself.

Now the correspondences continue, and hopefully it will add some excitement to the young learner’s study routine.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/730019https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/730019Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:07:30 GMTSchool break starts with a visit to Cybertron Con 2012 at Resorts World Sentosa Convention Centre. (DW bought the tickests for DH + DS1/2)


Witnessing the passions of generations of people towards the famous man-created toys, one has to admit that human being likes to read a continual story riched with plots and characters plus some ever-lasting teachings, meanings or values. It is about the pop culture, and it is about humanity.

Imagination + Creativity = lots of possibilities

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/728739https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/728739Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:54:23 GMTUndoubtedly, our DSs’ favorite TV show is Tom & Jerry. As a matter of fact, our DS1 n DS2 are Tom n Jerry of our family: One is big and the other small, though not a cat and a mouse, but a Tiger and a Chicken instead.


Like in the show, the bigger cat would not be always having the upper hand when dealing with the smaller mouse, the little Chicken would not beg off when it needed to compete with the larger Tiger.

Often, DH n DW watched the show without being entertained. Only when DS1 n DS2 are in truces, My Dears will Have Wonderful Saturdays n Sundays.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/726676https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/726676Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:52:44 GMTSeeing off the children to schools has become a routine, seeing off one of them to the airport who is going to be away from family memebrs for a week or so is the first-time experience to both of DH & DW.


One has to face the reality that someday the children will grow up and they will leave us to chase their dreams as we did to our parents in the past. This makes us more to cherish the times when the kids are attaching to us very much. We believe the bonding built up in their earlier lifes with the family will flourish on their later life journeys. No matter how far they will be, just like the kites flying high in the sky, one of their ends are in youir hands.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722200https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722200Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:57:24 GMT"Son’s maths teacher asked the pupils in the class if they had learnt Times Table? All the boys and girls said yes except our son." DW said today.


DH has heard of several times DS2 mentioned Time-Table to DW these few days and thought they were talking about some timetables to schedule in his activities.

"Is it a timetable or Multiplication Table?" After reassured it was Times Table, both DW and DH felt not sure if it was bit of earlier for a P1 kid who had just learnt plus(+) and minus(-) to touch anything about times(x).

Yes, these knowledge may not be new as well to the P1 pupils as they had learnt the + n - in their childcare time. But…

What to do? Should we teach DS2 to learn his Times Table by ourselves? Feel like something goes wrong.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/709601https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/709601Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:30:27 GMTLearning language is very natural thing happened to our mankind. Learning a useful language always a motivated n interesting thing to do for an individual.


8 years ago, DH + DW + DS1 (there was no DS2 yet then) had a trip in Europe. We spent a lot of time on the trains going around. As we toured some German speaking regions such as Switzerland, Germany and Austria, DS1 picked up some simple German sentences and phrases and spoke with his new acquainted little friends.

Getting to know NLB had an exhibition together organized with Goethe Singapore: German Bite-size. Wanted to bring DS1 along to see the exhibition. But he couldn’t make it as he excused himself for his heavy-loaded school works. On the final exhibition day, DH went alone to the exhibition.

Someone ever said, knowing a language is equivalent to holding a key to a new world. It is indeed!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/708378https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/708378Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:48:17 GMTEL teacher gave the feedback: DS2 sometimes writes letters such as ‘p’, ‘g’, etc in the wrong direction, i.e. in their mirror images.


One year ago, occasionally we noticed this phenomenon. When we told his Childcare teacher about it, we were told it was just due to young kids’ careless.

After having received the latest feedback from his current teacher, DH was alerted. We do not want this problem will be a clue to link with a more troublesome issue - dyslexia, though he is slow in his reading development to our opinions. We did a research on the net.

My Dear fellow KSP, did your child ever experience a similar problem in his/her early school/childcare time like my DS2? Do hope it is just a temperary issue on the course of a young learner’s learning experiement. My Pray!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/707685https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/707685Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:14:12 GMTDidi came to home after school and his first question for Gege was: "Do you know who designed our national flag?"


"It is Dr. Toh. "

"This morning, Teacher asked us to lower our heads after the flag lifted to half height."Didi has not learnt the word "mourn" yet and does not fully understand the meaning for the flag flying at half mast, but he knows now there are someones in Singapore history like Dr. Toh, besides Sir. Raffles and Mr. Lee, who deserved our respect and rememberance in our hearts.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/706192https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/706192Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:58:49 GMTIt’s 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar. After today, the festival celebration of CNY is over traditionally.


Our last celebration is to go for Chingay Parade show last weekend. We’d got 2 tickets and DH & DS2 went to the pit stands built for F1 race.

The show presented lots of "Long"s. Our PM "Long" & his wife also graced the event. We did not get ourself wet by the splashing water from the parade. When the fireworks exploded over our heads, DS2 fell asleep deadly.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/704610https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/704610Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:30:43 GMTOn his worksheet for "What I like and what I do not like" My DS2 wrote: I don’t like to do work.


Several days ago, one of his teachers complainted that he was distracting other pupils in the class. Today, My DS2 was caught singing himself in the class by the same teacher.

On the way back home after school, we had a conversation:
"Is she a good teacher or not?"
"I do not know."
"Do you like her?"
"Don’t know."
"Do you like Daddy or not?"
"Don’t know."
"I know your answer. Yes and no."
"Yes and no."
"Yes, you like Daddy, because Daddy reads story book for you. No, you don’t like Daddy, because Daddy punished you when you didn’t do your work."
"Yes."
"Then, do you like this teacher?"
"Yes and no."

Then I told him that singing in the class without teachers’ permission is not good. It will distract other people. "Why were you singing in the class?"
"I sang very low and nobody will hear. And today I have a 100-mark for my spelling and the teacher gives me a A+ sticker."
"Is that the reason you singing?"
"Ya."
"If you sing, you cannot follow the teacher. And you won’t make another 100-mark."

I am relieved if My DS2 could be motivated somehow.

When I turned to the answer for "What I do not like" and asked him if he wanted to modify the sentence, he shaked his head.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/702448https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/702448Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:11:52 GMT"I am driving and available today. You are welcome to use my pick-up service." I sent a message to My DS1 during lunch time.


The radio presenters are talking about the fetching-children-to-and-from-school. And the same topic is introducing diversified opinions on the free newspaper as well.

To me, this is a very personal question. We used to send Gege to his pri school though it was within a walking distance from the home to school. We thought we could save some time to let the kid have more time to rest.

When Gege was enrolled into the sec. school, walking was no longer an option. Gege ever took the public transportation to get to the school in the early morning. (My DS1 ever tripped in the ditch and left a permanet scar on his knee walking in the dark to catch the bus.) But we found out travelling by the car is the most "economical", "effective" and "efficient" mean to get the task done. Therefore, whenever possible, we would send Gege to school in the morning. The distance of 7 or 8 kilometers takes about 30 minutes for a to and fro trip in the morning. But the trip is much more than the dollars & cents.

In our society one of the most precious commodity is TIME. To spend time with our beloved is a wealth which money cannot buy.

"Daddy, I am on the bus." My DS1 turned down my offer.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699898https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699898Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:19:34 GMT“我要发财啦！”弟弟嚷嚷道。

彩狮队到社区来踩青，选区的国会议员也来与民同乐，并一一与民众握手。喧闹的锣鼓声中，握手的当时，尚未知晓与自己握手的人是谁。
经向旁人打听后，才恍然大悟。
小朋友们排队向议员恭喜拜年，然后从阿姨手中接过装着橘柑及糖果的小红袋。
弟弟翻看红袋袋里还有一小樽金箔粘贴的财神，于是大声嚷开了：“我要发财啦！”

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699086https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699086Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:24:47 GMT今天弟弟放学时，一条腿走路有点不自然。

回家的路上，他突然说：我的学校真好！我喜欢我的学校。
“你怎么喜欢她呢？”爸爸问。
“Recess的时候，我在餐厅附近摔了一跤。然后有一位大哥哥走上来，问我：‘Are you OK’？”
“我说‘OK’，然后低头看到膝盖上有红红的印子，我又说‘not OK’”弟弟娓娓叙述着。
“然后，那位大哥哥就双手搀着我走去General Office。在那里，我等了老师叫来的护士为我伤口上了药，上了plaster。”
”上课铃响了，我还在那里上药。我误了数学课…”
爸爸听着弟弟的叙述，心里为弟弟的成长而鼓舞。

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/697745https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/697745Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:10:25 GMT今天弟弟学校放学时，是一片欢快的红色海洋。老师学生都着装红色，有大红、艳红、紫红、深红、粉红、淡红、浅红，一片地环肥燕瘦，真个是龙马精神。


Daddy asked Didi, "Are you happy today in school?"
"Yes," Didi quickly replied.
"Do you have any homework today?" Daddy repeated the same question as usual.
"Daddy, you are luosuo leh (nagging). I will tell you if I have homework." Later Didi said, "Today we celebrated Long Nian (Dragon Year) in school. There are lion dances. We went to the office to gong xi to the principal."

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/697069https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/697069Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:22:49 GMT龙年来了。龙生于水，难怪龙年到来时，雨水大增。


弟弟说，老师告诉他们，牛车水有巨龙，于是全家出行，在玉兔回宫前夕走了一趟牛车水，感受新年的人潮与气氛。

When we prepared the cookies for CNY, an awesome double rainbow was rising over the sky.

Like what we read from one of Jone Aiken’s fantasy stories, we believed that we had kneaded a piece of the rainbow into the flour, therefore the baked cookies were never so nice before.

Rainbow symbolizes hope in another new dragon year!

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Cai=才/材/财/彩

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/696487https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/696487Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:58:35 GMTSuddenly, Didi asked Daddy if 鲁智深 is a good guy or bad, referring to a character in 水浒传, one of the 4 Chinese classic literatures.


Daddy said: "What do you think?"

"He beat 镇关西, a bad guy. So he’s a good guy." Didi replied,"But he’s a monk. Why he still drank and ate meat?" and puzzlled by the behaviours of the hero.

Didi, you will know and understand the world is not always black and white when you grow up. I told myself in my heart. Enjoy your innocent young ages. The journey towards the adulthood will guide you how to discern and make your judgement among the complexities of the life.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/694620https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/694620Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:57:15 GMT