Why is learning to wait for one’s turn considered suffering? Why is going to bed alone considered a sad and pitiful act? I found these 2 comments very strange. It came from someone who had just had new addition to the family. And the person considered to be suffering, sad and pitiful is the older child. […] Read more…
Family
Mealtime Battles 2
I have had a few queries on how I manage to get our children to sit at the table and eat by themselves and how we manage to get them to eat vegetables! So I thought I should just share how we do it. In case it helps someone out there 🙂 It would be done […] Read more…
Mealtime Battles 1
I have had a few queries on how I manage to get our children to sit at the table and eat by themselves and how we manage to get them to eat vegetables! So I thought I should just share how we do it. In case it helps someone out there 🙂 It would be done […] Read more…
To Sleep Train or Not to Sleep Train?
If you have been reading my blog long enough, you know I am all for sleep training. To have a child that would go to sleep when it is time to instead of having to cajole/bribe/rock/nurse is such a blessing. And I know this for sure since I was only just recently struggling with this. Read more…
Ordination, A Vacation and a Clingy Baby
…and twins! I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while but I have had neither the time nor inclination to since I have been erm…busy? 😀 So here’s a post on what’s been happening lately in our family. Ordination On 1st November 2009, dh was officially ordained as Reverend Henson Lim and promoted […] Read more…
Don’t Give Up Training Your Children
Training children to be helpers take such a long time to bear fruit. And that is why many of us give up too soon. After all it is usually much faster and easier to get something done yourself (and correctly!) than to teach a child, especially an uninterested one. But don’t give up. Truly they […] Read more…
Home Made Skirts
As mentioned before, we school 4 weeks and take 1 week off the whole year through except for Christmas where we take 2 weeks off. We also give ourselves a day off on our birthdays 🙂 I usually take the 1 week break to catch up on chores, let the kids do some crafty stuff […] Read more…
Time to Start Solids
…Or not! 😀 Once a baby hits the 6month mark, almost everyone will assume that he/she has started on solids. Some parents are even distressed that their babies persistently refuse to eat. Well, I am here to buck the trend – again! 😀 We actually deliberately delay the introduction of solids for as long as […] Read more…
One of those days
It was one of those days. Can’t teach properly. Actually can’t even think properly. The baby is acting up and likes to climb all over me and mouths whatever book/paper/pen she can grab off us. Then someone can’t get fractions. Another person can’t get punctuation. Everyone clamouring for his/her turn with me. I sms-ed dh “I’m slowly […] Read more…
She’s 6 months old
Our 7th blessing on earth is 6 months old today! And it has been a ride thus far 🙂 She constantly reminds me that I know next to nothing about babies and their kind 🙂 Keeps me humble I say! Just coz something worked with the other 6 babies doesn’t mean it will work with […] Read more…