Writer’s Workshop: From Last June to This June

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Last year in June 2011 I was evaluating how Monkey boy was faring in Primary 1. I wrote a short series on Preparing for Primary One and recounted my experience with my eldest when he first entered elementary school. This year it’s time to prepare Doggie boy for Primary 1 as he will be entering elementary school come 2013.

I went on my 1st Trip without R and blogged about Ten Ways to Tackling a Holiday with 3 kids when I brought the kids to Penang, Malaysia

We celebrated our 10th Wedding anniversary with a dinner for 3 in Singapore

What remained the same

I’m still passionate about the same people as mentioned in My Greatest Passions

What has changed

Fast forward to this year we managed to go on a family trip with everyone to Korea and had a magical time at the Secret Garden at Everland. I’m posting on the blog daily and have added in giveaways in addition to reviews that I have done at Dominique’s Desk.

We celebrated our 11th Wedding Anniversary abroad in Korea. We have been getting around more this June as compared to last June. The kids have been to the Army Open House, on the Singapore Flyer, Singapore Art Museum and Singapore Philatelic Museum.

I’m currently writing a series called Supermom 101 on how I manage it all- house, family and career.

How has it changed from you as compared to June last year?

Do you prefer it now or back then?

June 14, 2012

Writer’s Workshop: Darling Daddy

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R and the kids

Being a dad has been one of R’s roles since 9 years ago. It has been a learning journey for him being a father. He has been growing and learning more about fatherhood and has become more experienced through the years. Being steadily promoted from a father of one to now a father of three he has been actively engaging with the caring of the kids.

He handles the cleaning/ bathing of the kids since they were newborns and still does bath and feed Tiger girl when I’m engaged with her older brothers. I guess that practice makes perfect and with experience comes ease in handling of the kids physical needs.

He is the more relax parent compared to me. Maybe it’s because he gets more of the fun jobs of playing with the kids and bringing them out for fun instead on focusing on academics and discipline. Even though he and me don’t see eye to eye on certain issues regarding the kids we both agree that we need to co-ordinate our efforts in educating them.

I have learned from him not to be so uptight with the boys when they really drive me up the wall.He is really patient with the kids and has a really high tolerance to all their monkey antics. He will reason out with them before delivering any punishments if it is deemed necessary.

Tolerance is a virtue which I have cultivate throughout the years under his guidance. Although at times I still do snap at the kids when they drive me mad but it hasn’t been as often as before.

I guess that we do learn a lot from our spouse about how to improve on our parenting skills.