This is a feel-good factor post about Daanya and Haikal in 2007 :).
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…twice! It was fun! But, it was on the pre-text of safeguarding my little girl who is an ambitious little monkey. We actually went to a Hari Raya open house and Daanya saw the playground in front of the house. Naturally, she wanted to play there – thank goodness I was wearing pants!
Anyway, she started off with the lower slides and was quite content with them for awhile. After 15 minutes, she thought the slides were not challenging enough for her, so she decided to climb the higher slides. I couldn’t hold on to her from below so I joined her on the slides. I think she thought it was fun to slide with her Mama the first time and so she wanted me to go on the slide again with me. But, after the second time, she had enough and found some other things to play. Ah well. It was fun while it lasted.
Earlier that day, we went to Haikal’s school for the 2nd Parent-Teacher Meeting. This time, Haikal went on stage to perform with the rest of the kids. We had a pretty good meeting with his teacher and once again we were pleasantly surprised. It turned out that Haikal has hidden his capability from his own parents. He knows how to read quite well but he never shows it at home. In fact, at home, he always pretends that he doesn’t know how to read and asks me to read to him. I honestly didn’t know he could read until his teacher told me so.
Haikal is also a competitive little monkey. He’s in constant competition with another boy in his class so much so that once the boy beat him in one of the books they were reading, he FORCED his teacher to teach him so that he would be more advanced than the other boy when he found out about it. Talk about kiasu! I don’t know where he got THAT from. Oh well, as long as he’s happy and he knows his parents aren’t forcing him to be the best of everything, that’s fine with me. But the downside about it is he’s becoming a sore loser. He can’t accept that other people could be better than him, which I don’t think is quite healthy. We’ll have to have a chat with him about this when he’s older. I don’t think he’d understand at this age.
My kids are growing up so fast… *sigh*
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