Responsibilities, his homework.

On a side note, this morning while driving the kids to their "morning playground", didi said almost in a regrettable mood that tomorrow he would need to write weekend journal again. This is one of the school's homework for 6yos to jump start on their career blogging start writing essays, presumably. Noting his non-eagerness, I try to encourage him a bit by saying "Hey! I need journals too, y'know? And it's not a weekends only journal, it's a daily one"

I continued telling them (or myself!) that it's a collection of thoughts of what happened, where we went, what we did, how we felt, and when he's able to read more, he can dig it up and looked back on it. At that moment, I felt so good to be able to do this for them, but hey... seems like I had half abandoned my blog for sometime. It's like a "fu ji jak loi, fei ji jak hui" relationship I'm having with it. Guess I should update more from now on. (come back, come back)

On another side note, I had been sleeping at early hours these 2 nights. I'm so tired during the day but I just can't sleep. So I skipped yoga workout this morning and decided to hang out at the Oldtown for breakfast. Look! I"m blogging from here.. nice!

On one more side note, our aquarium (Oh! I haven't told you about our new aquarium yet, hoh?) is down to 4 miserable fishes now from 10. Even the cute little prawn die mai. Heiz... so sad.

Now, to my main note.

Last night I was very angry with korkor and gave him 2 canings on his palms for neglecting his homework right until the minute he was to pack his bag for next day's school, before his bedtime. I had already told him no TVs, games, toys are allowed until their work is done for the day. And he told me he has no homework, not once, but twice, after I asked him "ARE YOU SURE?" He enjoyed the whole day, doing nothing and watching TV, happy and relaxed only.

After the caning, I was still fuming mad, but I knew I need to lecture him and talk to him so he understand why he was punished. And I was telling him, all of us, have responsibilities. We, as parents have huge responsibilities to look after, and he has his own as well. If he can't handle this small little one called homework, then he won't be able to handle bigger ones as he grows up, and soon, he'll be losing trust in people, he can't go anywhere in life (woah!).... bla bla bla...

(oh! For the umpteenth time, I reminded him about sacrificing the cut on my tummy to give birth to him, and I felt heartbroken I'm rewarded with this sort of behaviour! And I was wondering if I should show weep a bit anot for more extra effect! *slap self*)

Sounds rather a "serious" topic to talk about, but I think this supposed to be the way of educating them. On another perspective, I wonder if I should be checking his work everyday or not, but then, sometimes I think it's better for him to learn while stumbling around. I believe children should make mistakes, they can afford to, and learn from it, rather than being protected from being in trouble for not completing their daily homework. ok ok, I admit I'm lazy too la..

Nevertheless, I seriously do not want to use the cane anymore on him, but how else do I tell him what he did was so wrong and unacceptable other than letting him feel the hurt and pain from it? But me yau do not want to check his work everyday laa.. Am I doing the right thing here?

Heiz... (can we go back to side notes?)