We started with simple tasks and we increased the tasks complexity in accordance to the kids abilities as they grew older. In this article I elaborate on what they gained in return.
She stared at one of the bigger pieces of bilis that I put on her plate and asked me if she could open it up and find out what’s inside her ikan bilis.
“The adult interprets the world for the child.” That is our work with the child, that we help them understand the world around them.
I think we can agree on one thing, and that is having kids will change you. As much as they grew under me and my husband’s care, they have made me grow too.
When we got married, we always joked and planned that we wanted 3 kids, and would name them Raynor, Kerrigan and Zeratul.
Parenting young children can appear like the scenes in the Ground Hog Day, where we try out different approach to daily situations and work out what’s the most effective method to parent them. It is such a learning curve to understand our kid’s psychology and why they act in a certain way in response to events and daily situations around them.
Since our first kid was born we have been bringing a family backpack out with us whenever we leave the house. Over the years, the content of the bag have changed as we had another 2 more kids. Kids are now 5, 3 and 1 years old respectively, and below are what we currently bring in the bag when we go out.
Being a first time mum in 2016, I found establishing breastfeeding the most difficult with my first baby. As I knew I wanted to breastfeed back when I was pregnant with my first, before he was born I listened to and read up many breastfeeding advise and tips from others /articles/ online blogs etc. Although I appreciate most of the advise given, not everything I read or heard about breastfeeding were accurate and some I disagreed with, at least from my personal experience.
