Year end school report

The day before we left KL for our homecoming reunion, we stopped by at the kids' preschool for the last parent-teacher meeting of the year.

Our first meeting was with meimei's teacher, and she has every nice things to say about meimei. She gave her a "Interpersonal intelligence" award, which is described as friendly, nice, always sharing and that makes her quite a favorite among her classmates. I was really beaming with pride hearing all these nice comments from someone who sees her every morning for almost 2 years now.

As for her development, she has been able to relate what has happened to her teacher in proper sentences, with a flow, and even able to provide some suggestions or solutions at times. In other words, I suppose she's qualified as a 8-kwa-mui or a nga-jim-jui-lei-mui. Tee hee! I like.

Academic wise, there's a lot of room for improvements, but to me, no hurry. Let her enjoy her childhood first. Then again, her assessment in the different subjects has been encouraging so I'm not too worried. Although she might seem not to be as good as her brothers in this area.

We then popped over to didi's class after waited for sometime, like patients waiting to see the doctor in a clinic. One good thing about the teachers here, they are pretty chatty about the children's development, always relating to the parents what they do, how they behave and initiating in constructive suggestions to us on how to further develop and guide them.

Didi is observed to be an intellect person, always thinking ahead of the rest, just for an example, when the teacher was telling about a rocket, he was already thinking about the space. She said he's not interest in simple questions, always challenging her with tougher questions when she asks him on the simple ones. She gave him the description "Logical Mathematical Intelligence" award, but emphasizing to us that it's not the only area he's good in, but the best, to her knowledge.

Quite co-incidentally, that's what my elder brother observed and told me too during the few days we were together. He suggests to us that he has potential and it is a pity if he's not exposed to brain development courses to further develop him. I'm not quite sure, is there any reliable and good brain development centers actually?

Though didi is ok in the academics, I am pretty sure about that observing him since young too, but he's definitely not very in good in controlling his own emotions or behavior. In fact, I'm very concerned on this more than anything else, and there had been various suggestions like letting him release his energy into sports or other activities. My brother suggested that things too simple might be boring him, and thus making him restless. But he noticed that when he's exposed to something new or interesting, it can hold his attention and make him very eager to keep trying in perfecting some new skills or learn new things.

Nevertheless, he's still like a little baby, in need of attention and love. His teacher says that he would be jealous when the teachers showers another boy with more attention. And she noticed that he behaves better when he's given some "responsibilities" or "tasks", like being a teacher assistant, helping her to keep check on his classmates behavior. My brother relates to me that he seems to like it too when my sis in law chats with him and asks him questions without anyone else around. He suggests I should probably be spending one on one time with him everyday for about an hour or so, which is really not the first time I hear of. I think I ought to work on this harder. OK, next year's resolution.

Sometimes I feel I really have not enough time and energy for all 3 of them, but I think I could do try harder. Each of them has their own weaknesses and strengths, and equally deserves for attention and love. Just that every one of them needs to apply a different strategy and method, and I think I'm still using the try and error method, as it changes too in the different phases of growing up. But I'm not complaining.