Just another story to share about my niece.
Apparently, the Singaporean blood runs very true in her veins.
A few weeks ago, shhe told her mum, tha she's the Second Best Mum in the world.
That's right, a child of 6 years old is already starting to compare her mum to other peoples.
Where else in the world does the comparison behaviour is worse, other than Singapore.
Apparently the reason is that her best friend's mum treats her kid to McDonald's once a week, while my sister in law is a strict disciplinarian, who won't even allow her daughter to have candies on the odd days.
However, the "sensitive" daughter still patted on my sister in law's back, saying " No. 2 is still good, yar?"
Anyway, life is going to be quite interesting in my end of the pool, but we'll see how its goes then.
DECISIONS ABOUND!!!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Very late Hello to 2009
Its been almost 1y 2 m since I last post anything.
Has been too lazy to share anything on net, especially since no one's reading it.
My brain just started kicking back into its musing mode, so I expect to have more updates in the future.
And now, just some funny things to get off my chest, all thanks to my weird but cute niece.
Apparently, there's a wide gap in bringing up kids in Germany and Singapore.
My niece, on an occasion, remarked to her child care teacher that my brother had been very good on his last visit, neither did he try to drown or bite her.
Yes, she said drown n bite. Of course on hearing that, the teacher was alarmed and thought my niece was subjected to child abuse. My sister in law was asked to meet the teacher for I think, they would be reporting to the authorities if such incidents happened.
But of course the "biting and drowning" was more of playing on the part of my Brother.
My dad used to do much worse during our time.
As he was a "Kampung" boy, he taught us that in order to swim, you have to drink....drink pool/ocean water. He would just grab our leg from underneath (he's quite a good diver") and pull us into the water (think he watched too much Jaws liao back then).
That, I think was a good example of negative teaching, as compared to the positive teaching that is more lauded in current worldview of child upbringing. But one thing good for negative teaching, is that it will ensure you pick up things much much much faster, I would say. Dunno what the experts feel about that, but I guess I'll end off here
Has been too lazy to share anything on net, especially since no one's reading it.
My brain just started kicking back into its musing mode, so I expect to have more updates in the future.
And now, just some funny things to get off my chest, all thanks to my weird but cute niece.
Apparently, there's a wide gap in bringing up kids in Germany and Singapore.
My niece, on an occasion, remarked to her child care teacher that my brother had been very good on his last visit, neither did he try to drown or bite her.
Yes, she said drown n bite. Of course on hearing that, the teacher was alarmed and thought my niece was subjected to child abuse. My sister in law was asked to meet the teacher for I think, they would be reporting to the authorities if such incidents happened.
But of course the "biting and drowning" was more of playing on the part of my Brother.
My dad used to do much worse during our time.
As he was a "Kampung" boy, he taught us that in order to swim, you have to drink....drink pool/ocean water. He would just grab our leg from underneath (he's quite a good diver") and pull us into the water (think he watched too much Jaws liao back then).
That, I think was a good example of negative teaching, as compared to the positive teaching that is more lauded in current worldview of child upbringing. But one thing good for negative teaching, is that it will ensure you pick up things much much much faster, I would say. Dunno what the experts feel about that, but I guess I'll end off here
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