A Homemaker’s Diary

This will be the last entry for August 2010. I noticed that I have not updated this blog as often as I should. So far including this entry, I have done only 8 entries for this month..huhu!

I was not really busy during this Ramadhan, not with cooking or cleaning up the house anyway..rather I was occupied with so many other things..hehe..with my newfound hobby of crochet, and most important of all, catching up with my handful son.

Try staying up till 4 am almost every night waiting for a toddler to finally fall asleep then you will understand why I seem to be out of tune with the blogging world. By the time he is asleep I don’t really have the strength to come out with words. Hopefully this phase will pass soon. I do hope that he will be able to sleep in early (like around 12am like he used to) and wake up early…not as early as 6-7am but early enough for us to have other activities.

You see, places like zoo and such are closed at 5pm. So if we wake up around 1-2pm, by the time we get ready and leave the house, we don’t really have ample time to catch up with activities like that. I am also looking forward to join play group or classes suitable for toddlers his age (he seems to love socializing with others), but then most of those classes are conducted in the morning.

For now what we can do after we wake up is to be pekebun kecil in our mini garden. Check out the picture of the fabulous pink rose above, well, that’s our rose. Nice, huh!

For those moms out there, especially stay-at-home moms, what do you do during your ME-time?

Do you take a nap, read a book or watch TV?

Or do you spend the time doing nothing in particular? I wish I could do that but my mind could never go idle..huhu!

When Hubby gave me the chance to have some ME-time while we were out, I decided to browse through new books in the bookstore and later went to Secret Recipe for late lunch.

Sipping the watermelon drinks was such a bliss. You never know the value of ME-time until you get none for so long. I was a refreshed mom after that, heh!

“What can we do with thirty seconds? What can we not do with thirty seconds!… Suppose your little child looks out the window and sees a collie. ‘What’s that?’ he asks you. You have five options, which will each take about thirty seconds to make stick:

1. We can tell him, “Look, baby, Mommy has to get dinner.”
2. We can tell him, “That’s a bow-wow.”
3. We can tell him, “That’s a dog.”
4. We can tell him, “That’s a dog called a collie.”

The fifth option is to tell him that it is a dog called a collie and then go on to tell him thirty second’s worth of information about that animal…

How sad it is that we put information into a computer with great skill and great precision and put information into our children’s brains in a hit-or-miss, slip-shod, and often untruthful way.”

-Glenn Doman

*Entri ini dalam Bahasa Melayu untuk memudahkan pemahaman umum*

Sila klik gambar untuk melihat dengan lebih jelas.

Sedar tak sedar, sudah bulan June sekarang ni. Untuk anak yang darjah 6, dan akan menduduki UPSR, cuma ada 3 bulan saja lagi, tak termasuk cuti sekolah sekarang, bulan Ramadhan dan Syawal.

Untuk ibu bapa yang risau dengan prestasi anak, masih ada harapan untuk melatih tubi mereka. Mungkin kita sudah banyak mencuba cara konvensional, hantar ke pusat tuisyen, kelas tambahan di sekolah, buat kertas soalan tahun-tahun sebelum, buat nota, peta minda, latihan di buku rujukan.

Apa kata cuba cara interaktif Score A ini pula? Mungkin lebih berkesan kerana otak semua anak-anak tidak sama, cara penyerapan ilmu juga berlainan. Yang penting apa yang dibaca dapat diingat dan dijawab semula dengan tepat di atas kertas. Jadi latih tubi dan ulangkaji berulang adalah cara terbaik untuk Score A.

Berdasarkan tarikh hari ini 16 June,

UPSR : 97 hari lagi
PMR : 111 hari lagi
SPM : 159 hari lagi

Bersediakah anak-anak anda? Dan sebagai ibu bapa, setakat manakah penglibatan anda dalam membantu anak yang bakal menduduki peperiksaan ini? Melalui online report card ini, ibu bapa akan berpeluang mengetahui di mana kelemahan anak dalam menjawab soalan. Masa masih ada untuk membaikpulih di mana kekurangan anak kita.

Jangan berlengah lagi! Pelaburan demi ilmu ini perlu untuk masa depan anak anda. Secara peribadi, saya tidak merasakan yang hanya scorer akan berjaya di dalam kehidupan, tetapi dengan keadaan hari ini, tempat ke IPT/sekolah berasrama penuh yang terhad misalnya, saingan sengit dari pelajar seluruh negara, peluang akan lebih cerah jika anak anda mendapat keputusan yang cemerlang.

Bantulah anak anda untuk berjaya dalam perjuangan UPSR, PMR atau SPM nya. Hubungi saya di [scorea at anakpandai dot com dot my] untuk maklumat lanjut tentang program online tuisyen ini.

After trying about the same type of toy working bench at a friend’s house a few months ago, we found it in Toys R Us Empire Shopping Gallery, Subang Jaya. I’ve seen one in ELC catalog but that one is like RM400++

Actually we were not sure whether to buy this working bench or a xylophone by Little Tikes. So Hubby asked me, do you want our son to be a musician or a handyman?

I really prefer handyman because it will save him a lot of money later in life. No need to pay for repairman or pay additional cost to install anything in the house, at least any minor leakage or not so severe broken appliances can be fixed immediately if he has the skills to do so.

In the end we still buy both, just to give him the opportunity to develop his many interests in life..heh!