Dora,
How life being a SAHM? Getting used to it liao?
Thanks for the explaination! Fish oil har.. maybe gotta try the childlife one liao. Coz sophia was happily taking plain scotts emulsion for abt a month and one day suddenly decided that she hates it.
And yeah, Sophia started CC end of last year. Hmm.. let me share her unusual cc experience.
As expected my gal didnt adapt well, every morning she will think of new tricks to avoid gg to school. For eg first day...doesnt wanna change into her school uniform, and next day doesnt wanna change into 'going out" clothing and then to normal home clothing and by the end of the week she was gg in her pajamas! And then she disallowed my mum to change into her going out clothing. Other antics : She will run and lie on the bed snuggle up at the cornermost saying she wanna sleep, or that she wanna poo poo and sit on the potty (and insist on watching tv) for ages, doesnt wanna go up the bus (though she used to love bus ride), don't allow them to carry her schoolbag, take her schoolbag n dump it inside the rubbish bin and when forced to go she will say things like , "Let me go home", "Let's go kaikai, don't want to go to school", and the most drama and heartwrenching ones "Ah Mah loves sophia rite?, Let me stay at home", "Gong gong help me!!"
This cont for abt 2~3 weeks, and my parents cannot tahan her vehement protest and pitiful cries, esp my mum. She was totally heartbroken. But according to the cc, the first week she cried on and off, but after the 2nd week she will cry about 5~10mins after my mum left, and then will start to enjoy herself. And everytime my mum picked her up after school, can see my gal happily playing with her friends etc. And when ask if she likes school, she says yes. But yet this drama will repeat every morning. And each day she goes later and later.
So I was really in a turmoil then, the principal told me its normal and the child will take time to adapt, and that some child might take a bit longer. One of my colleague said her son cried for 1 year! But after thinking thru, we finally decided to pull her out of CC, but yet we couldnt do it immediately as my parents were gg on tour and I cant take leave for the whole duration, and so she still got to attend for the next 3 weeks. And since my parents cant bear her cries while sending her to school, I decided that hubby n myself will send her instead. Only thing is that it will be super early at abt 7am.
The first four days she cried the usual "I dont want to go to school" but not as badly. Maybe coz she is not fully awake and maybe coz by car its just a couple of minutes so no chance to build up the crying momentum. Then Friday morning as usual when I was changing her diaper, she cried "I want to go to school". errr? did i hear it wrong or did she say it wrong?? and so i play my old recording.. "why dont want to go to school? school is fun blah blah.." and she replied in a crying tone "I want to go to school nahh" I was totally taken aback. And for once, she didnt cry on the way there... and since that moment, she stop crying about gg to school liao. In fact the next morning, she cried that she wanna go to school... but too bad it was Sat! Now, she doesnt cry when gg to school, even after long break (Christmas or CNY). We decided to cont this arrangement lor.. since she is ok with gg to school liao. Let her mingle around. Just last Sat, we got her up early coz we needed to go in JB, and we told her we going kaikai.. she cried saying that she dont wanna go kaikai, she wanna go to school!??? haha... strange hor. But her fav sentence is still "today no school!", she can repeat that gleefully like 10times in a day even though she is just on the way home from school!
My mum picks her up at noon. But recently we let her take her nap in school, coz my mum have a hard time persuading her to take her afternoon nap. Usually by the time she zzz is already 4pm. My mum got very pekchek, so after awhile i decided to let Sophia take her nap in school. My mum was quite reluctant coz i guess she miss spending the time with her.. i joke w hubby that my mum got a love & hate r/s with sophia.. heheh... So, now my mum picks her up at 3pm instead.
This arrangement works well for everyone lor esp so since my hubby need not work shift anymore. We can afford to reach there at 7.10am. (There was once when hubby working shift, we reached so early that the CC was still close!) My parents got almost the whole day to themselves. They started gg for their morning walk. My mum picked up reading books again. If they need to go JB or help out my bro's kids, they could do so. So all in all, things are good.
Diana,
Thanks for the address of the TCM!
Afcai,
Hope your boy recuperate fast and well after the hernia surgery.
