Weekend Reflections

A reflection of things that have happened during the week.

March 15, 2013

Weekend Reflections: Are you your child’s cheer leader?

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The blue cheerleading squad

During the Upper Primary Sports Day held last week I had the opportunity to view the different houses doing their cheer leading during the cheer leading segment. I took the opportunity to test out the fish eye function on the DSLR. I didn’t know that there were editing functions directly embedded within the camera for processing the photos which are taken.

Blue house cheer leading attempt

It as really cute to see the students all doing a synchronized dance and belting out their house cheers. I didn’t manage to capture the other 4 houses doing their cheer leading performances as I was busy looking after Tiger girl who was busy exploring the stadium as it was her first visit to the place.

Looking at the camaraderie between the members of the various houses and their cheer leading squad made me wonder how active I am in being my child’s cheer leader and rooting for him. Giving him both moral and physical support when he needs it the most.

It is a real delicate balance being supportive and seeming over bearing as a parent. On one hand we want our child to have their own experiences and fight their own battles and on the other hand we want to make sure that they grow up having a healthy self esteem.

I hope my kids do grow up knowing that their mum has always been rooting for them even though I may not appear to be as enthusiastic about certain issues like they are.

Are you your child’s cheerleader too?

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March 8, 2013

Weekend Reflections: Earn Your Keep Monkey Boy’s Updates.

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Monkey Boy’s side profile

It has been a while since I last updated about Monkey boy’s progress with his job as a budgeting accountant. It has been slightly more then a month since he started his job and it hasn’t been all that rosy for him.

Twice he had his weekly pay docked by $2 as his accounts were not in order. He didn’t not keep the receipts that were given to him and missed out recording some items. Through these episodes he has learned how important it is for him to do proper recording and keeping a tab on his work. Being slip-shot and not completing task when given a deadline is also not tolerated in the working world.

Monkey boy learned first hand that being diligent and efficient is essential to getting his work task done promptly. He has to have good time management to be able to complete both his school work and his budgeting assignments within the given week.

Dollars and Sense Book

We visited the library and borrowed this book for Monkey boy to read. It gave him a general guideline about what types of Money habits we wish to inculcate in him. We also read up online on how money came into existence and evolved to today’s dollars and cents.

In the coming months I’ll be teaching him how to do cost analysis and how to handle the usage of cash based on various case scenarios given to him.

In the next post on Holistic Learning I’ll be sharing what I have done with Doggie boy so far.

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