sleepy:

Lock:

I struggled with the pressure for her to do well academically and pressure from my own set of belief in what education should be. Finally, after numerous struggles and tensions (with my dd), I try to strike a balance between preparing my dd n ds for the exams and getting them to enjoy learning. My view is that a little competition and push is fine, as long as the kids still have the joy in learning. However, we should stop pushing once kids show signs of hating to learn, cos that will not do them any good in the long run.

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I run my own syllabus at home too, independent of my dd's P2 school syllabus. The next best thing to homeschooling her entirely

homeschool or hothouse?

sleepy:

I have also received phone call from one of dd1's classmates mum asking how I coach my dd even though I've never met her. Somehow the kids talk among themselves.

your DD1 very good with her study?

3Boys:

mathsparks:

[quote=\"tree nymph\"]Mathsparks,

just to share.

My best friend, who is a very staunch christian, hold joss sticks and pay her respects and follow through the Buddhist way when her beloved grandma passed away. She told me that her grandma is the one who brought her up and cared for her a lot. However, she respected her grandma, so she respected her wish to be sent off the Buddhist way and she respects that and also follow through the rituals as her respect to her late grandma. She earns my respect!

a distant relative - old cousin granduncle kind, he is a Buddhist. His sons are Christians. But the old man's nephews are not. So before he passed away, he bought his own place in the temple, arranged for his nephew to hold his urn, make all the arrangement for his funeral to be carried out the Buddhist way. The moment he passed away, his sons, didn't inform their cousins, and baptized the father and held a Christian Funeral...

Thanks for sharing, treenymph. I've personally heard of ailing, dying elderly being baptised at their death bed and I suspect they're too frail to resist.

:hugs: Just ignore the basher.

Frankly,
I'd appreciate if there were a comment meant to be directed my way, that it be so, rather than via innuendo.

I was not bashing, merely pointing out the imprecision of certain suppositions. tree nymph herself admitted the possibility of inaccuracy/embellishment. Do we not owe it to ourselves, when discussing topics of such a sensitive nature, to be sure of our facts and not merely pile in with 'he-said, i-said' hearsay?

mathsparks, case in point. Did you see the above happen as you describe it or was it 2nd-3rd hand information? You say 'their bedside', how many dying elderly do you personally know of that have been baptised against their will? As fact rather than hearsay? I have known and seen many dying elderly by their bedsides, both personally and as part of my previous work, and have yet to hear or see of a single suggestion of a forced bedside baptism.[/quote]3boys,
mthspark is innocent.....

tree nymph:

3Boys,
My English may not be as good as yours, but i said that it was a TYPO mistake. I DID NOT ADMIT \"THE POSSIBILITY OF INACCURACY/EMBELLISHMENT.\" I KNEW THIS CASE AS A FACT. YES A FACT. THE OLD MAN WAS BAPTISED TWO DAYS BEFORE HE PASSED ON. THE PASTOR TOOK THE INSTRUCTIONS OF HIS SONS - HIS SONS LIED TO THEIR PASTOR THAT IT WAS THE OLD MAN'S LAST WISH. THE SONS ALSO PROMISED A DONATION.

You may not have heard or seen a single suggestion of a forced bedside baptism - that DOES NOT MEAN THAT THESE THINGS DO NOT HAPPEN. Do you know what happen at their home? Maybe you have not seen enough. I bet you also have not seen a living dinasaur, does it mean that they don't exist?

3Boys:

Frankly,
I'd appreciate if there were a comment meant to be directed my way, that it be so, rather than via innuendo.

tree nymth,
i think you are very good at Empire Building.
If someone is good at Empire Building both at workplace and at cyberspace, he/she will tend to involve his/her buddy to side him/her whenver he/she wants.

Cut through your tone, i think all forumers are correct in their sharing thoughts.
But i think keep on using capital letters make people feel you are not respecting others no matter how assertive you think you are...

In the real life, are you always so intimidating ? what makes you so aggressive to display a fact? because you have a handful of GM (grandmaster) buddies in KSP? if you were a newbie, would you have a gut to impose your thoughts in such a bully way?/shouting at others?

tree nymph:

[ I bet you also have not seen a living dinasaur, does it mean that they don't exist?

interesting...
Did dinasaur exist?

60 hrs is the min requirement,right?

traffic is the compulsory duty, if i remember correctly....
quite tough for me as a working mother
but i believe all efforts are worth
because Northland is the best primary school in Yishun area
:celebrate:

breadgal:

Hi snggy, my child in p2 this year. Last year she had 5 changes in form teachers! This year so far so good. which class is your child in?

but CF still so hot. wondering Yishun residents are all PingPong lovers who chose sch based on PingPong rather than academic?

looks like Yishun residents are PingPong lovers, who choose school based on sports rather than acedemic? :siam: