Speaking of parents / helpers carrying their kid's bags, this story in Singapore a few years ago made me lol.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne...27-270356.html
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Speaking of parents / helpers carrying their kid's bags, this story in Singapore a few years ago made me lol.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne...27-270356.html
After 8 years of changing nappies... we are officially nappy free with my 3 year old now totally toilet trained :D :D :D
Oh how I long for that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by MayzaPrime
Congrats bud, I'd be happy too! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MayzaPrime
I hear ya, will be a great day :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
I know a lot of you have already met my little man Sam, well he now has a new partner in crime.
Little May was born yesterday at 4am, far too early in the day for my liking :)
She arrived on her due date just like her big brother so my kids have being punctual on their side already. Mum and bub are doing fine and I cannot wait for them to come home.
Congratulations, ken!
Congrats :DQuote:
Originally Posted by spiderken17
Happy happy joy joy, spiderken17! :D
Congratulations Ken!!
congrats Ken, that's great news!!!! :D
Congrats! I hope she settles in well and learns to sleep through quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by spiderken17
This year my daughter's class have been learning how to read/write Katakana in Japanese school. Every week the teacher asks the kids to share what words they know that contain two select Katakana characters, and the teacher writes correct answers on the board. Last Saturday's characters were サ (sa) and ナ (na). Her contribution for "sa" was a fairly common word; サラダ (sarada= salad), but then the teacher asked the kids for "na" words, and here's what my daughter said (circled in yellow)...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psfwxfgepu.jpg
For those who may not know, Katakana characters are typically reserved for writing non-Japanese words (foreign loanwords). My daughter's answer is actually two Latin words. They are...
ウルトラマグナス = urutora magunasu = ULTRA MAGNUS
:D
My daughter's in the lounge room watching Sesame Street and I just overheard the Count singing a song, "Eight is great!" and I immediately thought, "Yeah, 8 is great, but when you push it over it just goes on forever." :p
8 ╮
...∞
Please take a minute to complete this quick survey about mono/multilingual parenting, and feel free to share this link so that I can gather as much data as possible. Thank you. :) The survey is completely anonymous.
https://www.playbuzz.com/goktimuspri...gual-parenting
Done. Shared with my friends.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Will be curious to see how your results pan out.
Thank you and thanks to everyone else who's participated. :) Please do share this poll with others as I'd like to collate as much data as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bladestorm
P.S.: There is a mistake in the wording of the fourth poll option. It should read: "Parents speak SAME language, child(ren) is BILINGUAL"
So to clarify, here are all the poll options...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psgq9lsxff.jpg
Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is trilingual
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psivho7oji.jpg
Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is bilingual
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psaxnpt6mv.jpg
Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is monolingual
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps5d3mrzvs.jpg
Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is bilingual
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps6whweqfy.jpg
Parents speak same minority language child, is monolingual
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psdiusdcxx.jpg
Parents are monolingual, child(ren) is/are multilingual
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psozhm9cy1.jpg
Parents and child(ren) are all monolingual
Toddler: the ultimate test of patience.
Preaching to the choir brother !Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
At least you were smart enough not to have a second one
Just watched a video of a baby who's too young to be vaccinated with whooping cough. :(
Seriously, would anyone object if the government just passed a law to make it compulsory for all children to be vaccinated barring a medical exemption? I get that there are a few members in our population who cannot be vaccinated - so just get a doctor to write a letter to confirm this diagnoses and these people can be exempted from vaccination. But I don't see why the government just doesn't make it mandatory for all able-bodied children to receive vaccinations.
"Les enfants voient les enfants apprenent"; "What children see, children learn."
A short but poignant video about the way that children learn from the way that they are treated. Anger begets anger, understanding begets understanding.
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...skrcuvprz.jpeg
I know some people don't approve of the whole NAPLAN thing. I don't know enough about it to judge. I'm just super proud of my sons results.
Congratulations to you and your son!
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there.
I did well today. In amongst a few other things, I got this:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...43E2A6EE3F.jpg
I'm a happy chappy :D
How do you overcome the sometimes paralysing sense of worry you have for your children over all the bad things that could possibly happen to them in their lives?
Try not to think the worst. We also pray that God will protect them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
But it's only natural to worry and it shows you care. Only a couple weeks ago we noticed all these bruises on my son and he didn't remember anyone hurting him. My wife mentioned Leukemia to me and so of course I was worried all night. This is despite me rationalising that it was highly unlikely given there were no other symptoms. Next morning we got his blood tested and fortunately he was fine.
This is something my partner seems to go through when it comes to major changes... My little one went to daycare on his own for the first time yesterday and my partner went back to work three weeks ago (I took some time off to help us adjust to the change, now I'm back at work too) and she'd driven herself to tears and panic in the lead up to both events, plus other changes like him moving from bassinet to cot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
I'll give you the same advice I give my other half, and it's advice I try to take myself too, and that's not to focus on the "what if?" but on the "what is." Accept there'll be times when the little one will be upset - first time away from parents, trips and falls, cuts and bruises, colds and illness, but don't worry about it before hand because it's not productive. Prepare as best you can of course, stock up on your first aid kit and cold/flu remedies for example, but spend more time focusing on the now, and the positive events in the future.
It's not always easy, especially if you're used to planning things so everything goes to plan (never does with kids) but learning to go with the flow, and seeing the positive out of any situation helps.
My oldest is 10 in 2 weeks. I'm getting worried. Kids these days are exposed to a lot more at a younger age and I don't know how he'll handle some of those things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
Thanks gents :)
Sitting on the couch watching "cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2"..... couldn't talk my 3yr old out of it.
I'd compare it to hitting yourself in the head with a hammer..... it's gonna feel soooooo good when it stops! Lol
:confused: Why? What would happen if you just changed channels or switched the TV off? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by janda the red
We recently purchased a reading comprehension book for our daughter. The book is published in Singapore, so I'm presuming that the authors aren't native English speakers. If so, it would explain why every passage of text that I've read so far has contained errors in spelling and/or grammar. :eek: She's completed the first two exercises and I've read ahead to the third exercise's passage, and here are the errors I've picked up so far...
- "...none of the family members was upstairs."
The book has obviously incorrectly used the singular instead of the plural. The text explicitly states members - plural.
- "...the merchant and the guide were left in the desert without any shade and ride."
The author doesn't seem to understand how to use inclusive and exclusive disjunctive conjunctions in English. It should be "shade or ride" as an inclusive disjunction.
- "...the ambulance took him to hospital."
Here the text is missing an article - either the definite article "the" or the indefinite article "a". Either one works in this context, but either way an article is needed to identify the noun.
This is further enforces my suspicion that these Singaporean authors aren't native English speakers, as many Asian languages lack articles altogether and many native Asian language speakers do find the use of articles difficult as a result.
The book also misspelt "realise" as 'realize,' and "centre" as 'center' despite the fact that it uses Standard English spelling most of the time; e.g. it correctly uses "programme" not 'program', "colour," not 'color', "behaviour" not 'behavior' etc. - so it seems to be haphazardly switching between Standard and American English spelling rather than consistently sticking to one. And considering that this book was purchased in Australia, I would expect it use Standard English spelling.
What I find odd is that my wife purchased this book from a local educational book store. So it seems that this text book, loaded with errors, is being sold to local Aussie families. And there would be parents who aren't native English speakers (such as my wife) who may not be picking up on this mistakes, and implicitly placing their trust in this book (and possibly others in the series) as learning aids for their children, all the while the book may be teaching/reinforcing incorrect English for their kids. I'm not sure who I should lodge a complaint with, and quite frankly I have half a mind to get a refund. (-_-) Anyway... let this be a head's up to other parents, be sure to browse through potential books for your kids and ensure that there aren't any glaring mistakes in it.
I'd said to my eldest he could choose a movie to watch....Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
I'd be setting terrible example if I said he could do that, then took it away because I didn't like his choice. It's not like it was inappropriate.... just painfully terrible.
:)
Oh well. In that case you gotta take it. :D
I went back to the bookstore where my wife bought that comprehension book and spoke to the manager. Both she and another customer (a mother) argued with me that "none of the family members was upstairs" is grammatically correct because 'none' always takes a singular verb. I pointed out the other mistakes which the manager did concede were wrong and advised me to contact the publisher, and she would also advise their store purchaser about it.
After getting home I did some Googling, and ... okay, this is confusing - we were both right? "None" can be used with a singular or plural verb depending on whether it's taken to be a contraction of "not one" (singular) or "not any" (plural). Thus you can actually say:
* "none of the family members was upstairs" as in "not one of the family members was upstairs."
* "none of the family members were upstairs" as in "not any of the family members were upstairs."
I've always used "none" in this context as meaning "not any," and clearly the people at the bookstore think of it as meaning "not one," but we're both right. :o But anyway, the manager did agree on the other errors, so yeah... might need to write an email to the publisher.
I always thought the word "none" was derived from no one/not one along the lines of contractions like "can't" and the likes.
Ah the joys of English, so many external influences over the years of its development.
Replied here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by prjkt
Interesting articles:
Is Your Child Spoiled?: Who’s ruling the roost? Set age-appropriate guidelines, and take back control
Signs You're Spoiling Your Toddler
Although I'm not fully convinced about avoiding the word "spoiled."
Or in other words, they're spoiled. :rolleyes: A rose by any other name... :oQuote:
Instead of "spoiled child," Gorski prefers to use the term "overindulged" or "overprotected."
The "What you can do" stuff in the second article seems to be steps for parents who have already begun spoiling their child and seem to be good strategies to re-educate the child into becoming more disciplined. Although it's not terribly relevant advice if your child isn't spoiled. But then again, parents of unspoiled children don't need much advice when it comes to behaviour management; although there are other challenges in parenting that they still need to face, but at least the behaviour thing becomes one less concern. :) And dealing with a lot of other issues becomes significantly easier when the child is well disciplined.
#statingtheobvious
Last night Orion was asking 'who made people?' It's not easy explaining evolution to a 4 year old - I can see why parents used to say 'god did it'. He has lots of follow up questions today I'm doing my best to answer in a manner he can comprehend
Yuki asked me this question when she was that age. So I gave her a very basic explanation of evolution. :)
What's a good age to buy my son his first Nerf gun?
#realparentingissues
When he is old enough to understand that you must not fire it at a person's faceQuote:
Originally Posted by Trent