First Staycation

Tomorrow we are heading Festive Hotel for a night's stay. Our first so we don't really know what to expect... kinda worried how the kids will behave.

I hear you...

God, I hear you. I hear your call for me to turn to You. I want to. I don't know how to make it work anymore. If I can ask for a miracle, I hope to have a blissful life. Let me find my way back to You... Amin

I hear you...

God, I hear you. I hear your call for me to turn to You. I want to. I don't know how to make it work anymore. If I can ask for a miracle, I hope to have a blissful life. Let me find my way back to You... Amin

Enriching Sophie

I am not a competitive or kiasu person person by nature. I am an introvert who prefers to avoid people and crowds. Much on the contrary to popular belief. Yet, I have been described as highly competitive when my kids are concerned, setting unattainable expectations on them, Sophie in particular.

I have been doing all sorts of activities with her at home since young and sending her numerous enrichment classes. I got her checked for this and that and read any books that might remotely help me parent her better. Still, there are more to be done, there must be.. surely!

How did I degenerate into such an awful being? Honestly, I got swept into this huge hurricane of kiasuism and ended up miles from home. I seemed to have totally missed the point. I should really focus on building a good relationship with my kids and teach them by modelling how to lead a fulfilling life. Sounds too familiar? Well, it's more than that really.

Just a simple example... 

Sophie learns the piano from an expatriate teacher and attends Yamaha Music Wonderland (graduated and attending Junior programme in July). She also does Pre-Primary Ballet and Act 3 (speech and drama). In school, she attends Chinese Speech & Drama as well. Instead of seeing each enrichment class as a platform to excel and earn a better chance for school enrollment, I should see it as a foundation of her lifestyle. 

She should be playing her favourite tunes or making up songs and dancing everywhere she goes. Her life ought to be filled with music, dance and dramatization. Similarly, she should also be creating lots of visual arts since we have been doing that since she was 16 mths old. Especially when she just started attending art class as well. In short, her life should be filled with artistic appreciation, expression and actualization. 

When I look at the whole picture, I start to understand how swimming never really work out for her. She's just not an athletic person with good gross motor skills. All this time, I am nurturing an Arts person unknowingly. And amazingly, she's turning out to be just like me, especially her vast interests in the arts. The only difference is that she's an extrovert so it will be easier for her to fulfill an artistic life.

Right now, I am really just admiring a little girl prancing around, making up her own songs and tunes, tiring her fingers with lots of drawing, cutting and pasting, spinning her tall tales and acting out her thoughts! She does not have to be great, but beauty will always stay close in her life!

Enriching Sophie

I am not a competitive or kiasu person person by nature. I am an introvert who prefers to avoid people and crowds. Much on the contrary to popular belief. Yet, I have been described as highly competitive when my kids are concerned, setting unattainable expectations on them, Sophie in particular.

I have been doing all sorts of activities with her at home since young and sending her numerous enrichment classes. I got her checked for this and that and read any books that might remotely help me parent her better. Still, there are more to be done, there must be.. surely!

How did I degenerate into such an awful being? Honestly, I got swept into this huge hurricane of kiasuism and ended up miles from home. I seemed to have totally missed the point. I should really focus on building a good relationship with my kids and teach them by modelling how to lead a fulfilling life. Sounds too familiar? Well, it's more than that really.

Just a simple example...

Sophie learns the piano from an expatriate teacher and attends Yamaha Music Wonderland (graduated and attending Junior programme in July). She also does Pre-Primary Ballet and Act 3 (speech and drama). In school, she attends Chinese Speech & Drama as well. Instead of seeing each enrichment class as a platform to excel and earn a better chance for school enrollment, I should see it as a foundation of her lifestyle.

She should be playing her favourite tunes or making up songs and dancing everywhere she goes. Her life ought to be filled with music, dance and dramatization. Similarly, she should also be creating lots of visual arts since we have been doing that since she was 16 mths old. Especially when she just started attending art class as well. In short, her life should be filled with artistic appreciation, expression and actualization.

When I look at the whole picture, I start to understand how swimming never really work out for her. She's just not an athletic person with good gross motor skills. All this time, I am nurturing an Arts person unknowingly. And amazingly, she's turning out to be just like me, especially her vast interests in the arts. The only difference is that she's an extrovert so it will be easier for her to fulfill an artistic life.

Right now, I am really just admiring a little girl prancing around, making up her own songs and tunes, tiring her fingers with lots of drawing, cutting and pasting, spinning her tall tales and acting out her thoughts! She does not have to be great, but beauty will always stay close in her life!

A New Beginning Perhaps?!

I have finally found the apps for blogging!!! Now I can blog via iPad and iPhone... Now it's up to me make the effort!