yamyam\" post_id=\"1953328\" time=\"1576463286\" user_id=\"10645:

Hi bluepencil,

During June this year, I did ask my girl's language teachers on recommended books for her to read for leisure. Her language art (English) mentioned , The boy in striped pyjamas, To kill a mocking bird, the book thief and John Grisham books. These are not the literature books, first year, no lit books.

For Chinese, her teacher did email me a list of books. So, perhaps you want to PM me your email address, I can forward the list to you.

Regards,
Yamyam

Sorry for the late reply. Oh thank you for the recommendations. Thing is my child has read all of them , except for Grisham which isn't an interest. My child is a big deep reader !
wish is the case for chinese - it's worrying.
will pm!
tks in advance

Please may I know or nobody knows? What are the JH1 literature books?


If not confirmed my child can also read all possibilites book.

Its a long wait till jan 6 Will ask child to read more chinese books instead . Really really try . I struggle myself too

Hi I understand that Life 360 is mainly for location tracking.

My child shares location with me using whatsapp. It seems to work well.

I am more interested in content monitoring.
Sometimes its not our child.
And most of the time it’s the external influence from social media like instagram.
And sometimes, when many teens who are "half good" add up, it makes a big common bad.

It’s easy to parent our child but difficult to parent other teens.

I am keen on qustodio. May I know if anyone can share the weakness of it?

My priority is to monitor online stranger contact as strangers can randomly comment on a post in instagram for eg. Commenting is ok. But taking it further from there isn’t.

I am concerned about instagram, snapchat and tik tok, where commenting is possible.

I struggle with this because my child is in a class whose classmates use the above social media FREELY.

When your child does not have what is a common thing among friends, then that item becomes a neccessity.

We may say that we parents need to bring our child up well, forbid this and that. But imagine strugging with a child whose close classmates are using it . Forbid classmates? Forbid school ?

smurfalone\" post_id=\"1945908\" time=\"1573490911\" user_id=\"55998:

Would like to purchase 2nd hand textbooks used by NJC students, please PM me if you have the following literature text.

1) Animal Farm by George Orwell (New Longman Literature edition, hardback)
2) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare edition, paperback)

Thank you !

Hi parents,
Are animal farm and julius caesar the literature books for JH1? Maybe i should ask my child to have a first read (she reads like lightning speed)? I know maybe not a good idea as it's better to read with teachers? But she has nothing very much to do till Jan 6.. she is also wanting to do some work ..

Of course certainly we as parents must teach our child well, and educate them about responsible use …


But of all, I find the device use, overuse, unintended use or passive browsing - phones are the most tricky to control , even we as adults also sometimes overuse…

Hi yamyam


thanks so much for sharing!

I am using iphone, so in a way, everything is set out.

So it is mainly Google classroom?

My girl's main objection of restrictions is that she is worried of embarassment when her apps lock down on the iPad,say for eg. Safari.
But then she also the iPhone.

I feel as if I need a spreadsheet to calculate iPad and iPhone screentime and limits, if being extreme.

I hope more parents will share here. Cos in the end if parents work together to safeguard our kids then my child won't be saying \"But they are allowed to have this app in their iPads !\"

:?

As the iPad is a requirement in njc, parents may I know what are the apps that are used by your child in school? is it Safari (for research), class dojo , simple utilities like email, dictionary , scanner … What else.


Thank you in advance. This is so I can set appropriate app limits, after all the child still has a phone for use eg social media.
I have even heard from a top JC that students sometimes set up instagram for their cause, eg. CCA , etc

Thanks again

Dear parents,


I searched this forum and found that all the ipad related matters are on ipad type etc

My child will be starting JH1 in 2019. We look forward to it!

I am concerned about that an iPad with wifi means a big phone in the hand at any one time.
Because if you think about it, kids these days, they don’t use phone service, just endless texting and social media.

I am concerned that my child will be catching up on social media in between lessons or texting away?

To start on a right foot, I have set some guidelines for my child - screentime, apps to be available on ipad.
But I would like to hear from parents here on any other things you have done for your child with regards to screentime. Here I mean screentime for apps not related to use in school.

My child’s device usage needs to be improved and I am working on it.
I understand discipline etc is important, but once a device lands in anyone’s hands, it’s hard to resist.

Even adults can be guilty of too much screentime…

Thanks for any advice you have on helping our kids control their device use

ryka\" post_id=\"1949794\" time=\"1574775656\" user_id=\"9938:

bluepencil\" post_id=\"1949707\" time=\"1574759114\" user_id=\"165241:

ok thanks to skyminecrafter,ski, resgmom and mommyNg for all yr replies on canoeing CCA and timetable etc.

So just to clarify, canoeing is 2 times or 3 times or it can be both. Tks

Canoeing available 5-days a week, choose 3-days for training. If you are very eager, you can also come daily

Ok I get it now. 3 days plus all the travelling time (gulp)
Thank you so much
Thanks to all for the prompt replies. What a great supportive njc community.

ok thanks to skyminecrafter,ski, resgmom and mommyNg for all yr replies on canoeing CCA and timetable etc.


So just to clarify, canoeing is 2 times or 3 times or it can be both. Tks