My mom’s place is very quiet almost everyday of the year except when Elizabeth comes for visit, or we come back home. Since we are back, my mom’s place has been very noisy with my kids’ laughter, cries, screams, complains of each other, and etc. The only time we have a peaceful moment is when they are sleeping soundly like babies!

Hubby went back to Ipoh first, so he must be very glad to have some peaceful moments for himself. He thought the kids will miss him as they cried for him when I dropped him at the bus station, but dear, they are practically enjoying themselves a lot right now, they won’t notice that you are not around. *Ouch, hubby’s heart must be breaking reading this, LOL!*

Today’s photo, taken at McD 

But my mom said my kids grow up a lot and they are very naughty now. They will fight for anything, like a piece of cookie or those promotional pens and old pencils of mine. I don’t think my parents are willing to take care of them for us, if hubby and I should go away for awhile. They will surely have high blood pressure taking care of my kids. LOL!

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I haven’t bought any books for my kids recently. They haven’t got bored with the latest books we bought a month ago, and sometimes they like to dig out those old books from time to time. For the past few days, we were busy with friends from Malaysia, our reading session only restricted to bedtime. Due to exhaustion, we only allowed them to choose a book each. What a bad parent huh? LOL!

Since our friends have all gone back today, we should get back to our routine soon. I’ve been thinking on introducing them to Dr Seuss’ books. Some time ago, I asked if Justin would like to get this book called The Complete Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss. He was not interested as the graphic was not to his liking. Maybe he was younger then, so he preferred something more colorful and attractive. Recently, he is more interested in learning words, so maybe he can pick up some reading skill if I get those books by Dr Seuss.

English books are more expensive in Bangkok, thus I will get some when we fly back next month. But if you are interested to purchase some Children & Education books online. check out those offers by Borders. You can easily find lots of children books, DVDs and Cd’s here, so just check it out. I found that Bob the Builder Wind-up Power Book is having a 20% discount, so if you don’t want to miss this bargain, hop over the the link provided above.

Besides getting back to our routine, I need to clear out the junks in my fridge. Hubby bought lots of junks for my kids and the guests this week, so it’s time to clear them out!

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Justin has been bugging us to dine at Indulgence for some time. Hubby doesn’t really like the place but all 3 of us love it! So he lost and got to dine with us there as well. The majority wins, ok?

They were so happy to be there again last Saturday, and they were wandering around in the restaurant.

We love this place!

My kids love cherries, but I can’t seem to get any from Jusco lately. So, we ordered some cherries as appetizer.

Fresh juicy cherries

Mommy, we want cherries please!!!

Of course, the food was slow, as usual. So, my kids finished off 2 basket of wholemeal bread first while waiting for their food. Anyway, they love bread and butter. Seeing them munching the bread will probably made other diners think, “Wah, the bread looks tasty!” LOL!

One left only…

I better eat fast and take the last one too.

I can spread the butter by myself.

So, when hubby’s spaghetti was served, Justin took some, but Isabelle was too full for that. She started walking around in the restaurant and mommy got to play the chasing game with her. Luckily, she sat back at the table once the kids meal arrived. Of course lah, got FRIES!!! Which kid doesn’t like fries?

Fries and ketchup! Yummy…and fattening lah…

When we were there, we saw something that puzzled us. There was one boy who refused to be followed by his mother to the gents. His mother stood outside the washroom, waiting for the kid. But once he got out, he was rage with anger and began throwing tantrum and shouting to his mother. When he walked back to his table, he slammed the door and locked it too so that his mother couldn’t not get it. They were seated at the smoking section, which is location just beside out table at the bar area. His mother didn’t say a word from the beginning until the end. The waitress came and opened the door to let the mother in. The boy just sat back by his dad, crying while daddy was comforting him.

When hubby saw this, he said maybe the mother was not the real mom. Huh??? Why? He said most parents will surely scold or discipline the kid already and won’t let him humiliate the mother like this. He said the boy was damn spoiled. Well you know, one of those rich spoiled brats?

Well, I don’t know. I don’t think it’s right to hit a kid, but maybe I will just scold my kids softly. Frankly, at situation like this, I’m not sure how to handle it. But I think that boy’s father should help the mother instead of sitting there looking at the boy shouting at his mom in public.

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Every parent hopes for the best for their children. I would certainly hope that my two kids will turn out to be fine and happy in their lives too. But at the same time, I’m also worrying if they will be badly influenced by drugs or alcohol.

Even if there is Addiction Treatment which is effective in help the addicts, but no parent wishes to have their kids going though this. However, if your kids are addicted, please get them the help they need. You can find out more from Sunset Malibu which offers an extensive variety of treatment programs and resources to assist our clients in finding the best treatment options for their specific needs.

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I’m out of ideas how to train Isabelle to sit nicely when we are eating out. She likes to climb out from the high chair, standing on it, and does some dance moves as if she is trying to show us she can stand very firmly on the chair. Just look at the shots I took…

Getting out from the high chair, even if she’s buckled up!

Fighting back at daddy who asked her to sit down….

Almost fell off, but daddy already stand by for her….

Nah, this is what I called challenging parenting skill. With 2 kids with different personalities, we are having double standard in bringing them up.

There is only one way that she will sit down nicely for 10 minutes, which is to let her eat by herself and mess up the place. We do this most of the time, once the food is served, we let her feed herself, no matter how dirty she will be. Not to mention, the waitress will shake her head thinking about the mess that she is going to clean up later!

What to do, you tell me?

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One of my greatest fear of being a mother will be the time when my kids have reach their teens. I was quite rebellious last time, and I gave my parents a lot of headache.

But I was not those trouble maker type because I was very kiasi, and I won’t do anything that screwed up my studies or my activities at school. On top of that, I was lucky that I don’t have friends who were bad influenced to me, and I didn’t get myself into a lot of trouble.

However, I knew some kids from other school who are involving in stuffs like drugs, drinking, casual sex, and etc. I only got to know them when I was working part time as a promoter after my SPM. Those girls were really messed up. They were only in their teens, but they have been clubbing, taking pills and drinking for years. Frankly, I have no idea why their parents just chose to ignore them.

If only they had been sent to Drug Rehabiliation, I believe they still have a chance to changing themselves into a better person. Too bad, they were still the way they were when I left for uni. I really hope that they are doing fine now.

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I’m yet to come to dealing with teenagers as my kids are still young. But then, I thinking about how they will be when they are teens.

I was quite rebellious when I was in high school. I used to “complain” to my mum that they were being too protective over me, and I was forbidden from doing lots of stuffs like hanging out with friends, camping, sleep over, and thus. Nonetheless, I fought for “my rights”. LOL! I thought they were restricting too much and I hatred it. I guess I gave my parents a big headache when I was a teenager!

However, after I entered college, then I began to realize how “naughty” I was, and how much I miss them controlling me. LOL! I have total freedom then, and I was so lost. My parents stopped restricting me after high school. They said I was old enough to think of the consequences and be responsible of myself.

I was lucky. I didn’t give them much trouble. Some teenagers really go through a stage where they get into drugs, abuse, gang, and etc. But there are lots of info on Parenting Teens - Help For Troubled Teens which is a good read and also programs for the troubled teens.

I will bookmark this site as reference, and it’s better to read up now and getting myself a headache later!

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I know that education is very important, but parents these days were forced to be kiasu, especially Chinese parents. I admit that I worried about how my kids will be doing when they grow up sometimes, especially when I see how much SIL is pushing on her kids. We live under the same roof, it’s unavoidable!

Most parents want their kids to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, and all other professionals. That’s the way I was brought up too, but now, I’m neither one of those! I quit my job as an engineer years ago and no regrets. However, I am still leading a happy life,

Hubby has the same mentality as me. He thinks that study is important, but not to the extend of pushing the kids to having tuition for all subjects. He prefers them to balance out with sports and traveling. Even if our kids end up in Welding School, and as long as they love what they are doing, we will support their decisions.

But hubby hopes no matter what they want to do, they got to love golf.

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Lots of my working friends placed their kids at Daycares centrers. They look for daycares centers through the word of mouth or from leaflets and brochures. Too bad we don’t have an online site which compiled all the daycare, childcare, preschool, nanny, babysitter, and etc, to help parents search for all the options available in their neighbourhood easily.

Daycare Bear which is launched in December 2005 has already helped thousands of parents in their search of available daycare openings in the US. Daycare Bear provides the most advanced search engine dedicated to daycare providers and childcare services to help parents in this endeavor. Parents can just search for it by using a zip code, daily rate range, their children age and etc, and they are minutes away to get the list of childcare providers they are looking for.

Isn’t this convenient?

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