Precious parenting moments
There was some tension at the dinner table tonight during New Year’s Eve dinner between the Boy and his dad. …
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Focussing on my brilliant little flame
I just wanted to write a post here, dedicated to my darling baby boy. And to remind myself, not to let him suffer, or feel less loved, through accidental ‘benign neglect’, or feel neglected.
Life lessons
I don’t often have the presence of mind and opportunity to impart important life lessons to the boys in the midst of the daily grind – between my work frustrations, personal struggles, and the never-ending logistics and minutiae of daily life – I’m often short, and snappy with them. Instead of taking their ‘misbehaviour’ (really, often it is just behaving in way that is not to my preference and expectations) as opportunities to engage and discuss, my response is to snap at them, which often results in rapid escalations.
28 months: review
A quick review of Little Buddy’s life experiences so far, at the end of 2015, after ~28 months of life: …
Songs he sings
By “sings”, I mostly mean “hums”, except for “Ee ai ee ai oh” (from “Old McDonalds”), which he articulates quite well.
For the other tunes, there is often a hint of a shadow of words, which is why I know (or guess) that it’s in one particular language, even if there are songs with the same tune in different languages. The (language-specific) song he hums is listed first, followed by, in parenthesis, songs with the same tune in other languages that he is exposed to.
Verbalising
In the last couple of weeks and days, Baby-Ao’s vocabulary has just exploded.
From his first word “papa”, probably around 9 months or so, he progressed to saying the following words in quite short order:
My first treasure basket
Late last month (27 or 28 Feb), I put together a treasure basket for home use. I never would have …
Back to blogging
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged. Time has just flown and Baby-Ao has just grown so quickly!
From the initial angst over the question of “when to wean?” where I left off in my last post, we’ve progressed quickly through doubts over what to eat, how often, how much, why-won’t-he-eat-finger-foods etc.
Hyperactive mum
Some people think I’m behaving like an over-ambitious “Tiger Mom”, pushing my kid to do activities even as a baby. While I don’t know what my attitude will be like in future, I don’t think my current hyperactivity is attributable to a “Tiger Mom” attitude.
Nature vs. Nurture
Yesterday, Baby-Ao had his first baby swimming lesson.