Yesterday, I was looking through my blog archives looking for one particular entry I've written last March. As I read through the old entries, I realised that I constantly write updates on Tara in the past. Unlike recently. So now, I will do a point entry of Tara's latest updates!
- Tara has gotten used to school initially, and on the day of her Daddy's birthday, she happily walked into her classroom without crying and whining. I told Bob maybe she knew it was his birthday, so she decided to behave. This went on for only 2 days only. After that, she fell sick and had to stay at home for a week plus. 2 days ago, she went back to school and reverted back to the whiny little baby. Gotta start all over again.
- Since 8 Jan, the day Tara starts school, she has fell sick 3 times. And for the month of Feb, she only attended school a couple of days. We even had to send Tara to NUH A&E cos her temperature shot up to 40.2! She wasn't admitted cos the doctor said she was still active. In her medical report, it was written that she was "active, singing and dancing".
- Little girl is fully toilet trained. Diaperless in the day starts from last September, and she stopped wearing diapers in the night a couple of weeks ago. Now I wonder what do I do with the leftover diapers? She has a little potty in the toilet and she always go there to pee and crap, by herself, or making us follow her. But she pretty much independent on this aspect. She even learnt to use toilet paper to clean herself, empty her urine into the toilet bowl, attempted to flush the toilet and also wash her own hands after using the toilet.
- Tara knows how to speak in short sentences. She's a full Mandarin convert now. We used to speak to her in English but from day 1 she started speaking her first words, it's more Mandarin than English, so I and Bob decided we will speak to her Mandarin and let her learn English in school. During the "transition" period, she will speak a mix of both, for example, "I 要吃面".
- She used to call herself "娃娃", now it becomes "Kara". Hope it will be "Tara" soon.
- Tara's starting to behave better, unlike the little monster months ago. And since she entered child care, she has grown really attached to me.
- I'm very strict with what she eats, and she has learnt that whatever she wants to eat, she has to ask me first. But there are still times when she will be offered some snacks there and then, and she will go into a major fit when I tried to take it away from her. No, don't tell me kids have to snack once in a while, and sweets are made for kids, and it's cruel not to let them snack, I don't believe in that. It's just a whole load of crap. She will get to taste all these food in future, so I'm keeping her healthy for now. But if she decides she hate all these junk, all the better. I'm glad Bob is standing on my side.
That's basically all for now.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Parents Dialogue Session
Yesterday, Bob and I attended the Parents Dialogue Session at Tara's school. The session is meant for the teachers to address any concerns of the parents, as well as for the parents to know more about what their little one is doing in school.
We were told that there will be a new Chinese teacher joining the playgroup (PG) class in March, that makes a ratio of 1 teacher to 5 children for the expanded class of 26. Teacher Yiang commented the 2007 class has really wonderful parents cos after the 3rd day of school, we never appear in school at unusual times to peep at our little ones.
After all the teachers have spoke to us, we were shown video clips of the class proceedings. The school understand that parents are anxious to know what their little ones do in class, how they behave etc.
We saw a total change in Tara. In the video, she was sitting down quietly listening to the teacher reading stories. She has never sat quietly to listen to stories before. And she was sitting by herself. Her favourite Auntie Chen, whom she held on for dear life during the first few days of classes without me around, was sitting some distance away. We were amazed! And she was really interested to volunteer herself during a particular activity in class. Singing and dancing was her favourite. She took a while to warm herself up to the actions though, prefering to watch more than to follow the actions. And I finally know why she did some funny actions when we were at home. She learnt them in school. That day, I taught her how to do "Gong Xi" while singing to the "Gong Xi ni" song. A few days later, she started going "Hey!" once I finished singing a line.
We got to see some pictures taken during dressing up corner play, Teacher Ming Chue told me Tara loved to dress up! Quite a few pictures was taken of her wearing different outfits. Bob wanted to buy the photos and I arranged with Teacher Ming Chue to develop all photos that has her in it.
There were photos of outdoor play too. And a few photos was taken when Tara was still clingy to Auntie Chen. She was standing on one side, holding Auntie Chen's hand and hugging her little monkey, watching the rest of the class play. She was crying on one photo, taken during the same session.
After the dialogue session, Bob and I were assured that Tara has finally adjusted to school life. I'm grateful to the school for holding this session, if not I would have thought Tara has yet to get used to school. Every morning and evening when Bob fetched her, she would cry a little and each time, Bob would feel a little guilty for leaving her there. Now that we know she actually enjoyed the classes, we believed the crying might just be a little habit that she has yet to grow out of.
Before yesterday, when I'm at work, I used to think of her a lot, whether she's crying again, or whether she's enjoying the classes, ate enough etc. But today, I know better.
We were told that there will be a new Chinese teacher joining the playgroup (PG) class in March, that makes a ratio of 1 teacher to 5 children for the expanded class of 26. Teacher Yiang commented the 2007 class has really wonderful parents cos after the 3rd day of school, we never appear in school at unusual times to peep at our little ones.
After all the teachers have spoke to us, we were shown video clips of the class proceedings. The school understand that parents are anxious to know what their little ones do in class, how they behave etc.
We saw a total change in Tara. In the video, she was sitting down quietly listening to the teacher reading stories. She has never sat quietly to listen to stories before. And she was sitting by herself. Her favourite Auntie Chen, whom she held on for dear life during the first few days of classes without me around, was sitting some distance away. We were amazed! And she was really interested to volunteer herself during a particular activity in class. Singing and dancing was her favourite. She took a while to warm herself up to the actions though, prefering to watch more than to follow the actions. And I finally know why she did some funny actions when we were at home. She learnt them in school. That day, I taught her how to do "Gong Xi" while singing to the "Gong Xi ni" song. A few days later, she started going "Hey!" once I finished singing a line.
We got to see some pictures taken during dressing up corner play, Teacher Ming Chue told me Tara loved to dress up! Quite a few pictures was taken of her wearing different outfits. Bob wanted to buy the photos and I arranged with Teacher Ming Chue to develop all photos that has her in it.
There were photos of outdoor play too. And a few photos was taken when Tara was still clingy to Auntie Chen. She was standing on one side, holding Auntie Chen's hand and hugging her little monkey, watching the rest of the class play. She was crying on one photo, taken during the same session.
After the dialogue session, Bob and I were assured that Tara has finally adjusted to school life. I'm grateful to the school for holding this session, if not I would have thought Tara has yet to get used to school. Every morning and evening when Bob fetched her, she would cry a little and each time, Bob would feel a little guilty for leaving her there. Now that we know she actually enjoyed the classes, we believed the crying might just be a little habit that she has yet to grow out of.
Before yesterday, when I'm at work, I used to think of her a lot, whether she's crying again, or whether she's enjoying the classes, ate enough etc. But today, I know better.
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