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slippers

mayumi carefully arranged our slippers before she went to bed

For several nights now, mayumi, my bunso, has this ceremony - - before her bedtime, she would carefully arrange our slippers downstairs. Last night, as i was really curious, why she has to do it and why during her bedtime....i asked her and our conversation went like this:

nanay: uhmmm, ading, what are you doing?

mayumi: i am about to sleep nanay....

nanay: so, what are you doing with the slippers?

mayumi: i am fixing them nanay, so when you and tatay wake up and i am still asleep....your slippers are ready!

I never expect that she would give me that reason.....i just simply thought that she would just want to see those slippers to be placed orderly..............behind her act is a deeper meaning!... ooohhhhhhh.....children are really so fascinating - with the way they act, feel and think!

Children are really gifts from heaven!

sunday's best!

Good morning everyone!......it's a fine day today, isn't it?..the little drizzling this morning somehow makes me feel that we are bidding our goodbyes to summer and.......HELLO RAINY DAYS!.....(oooppppsssss...what about the global warming?)

Sunday is a literal family day for us----no yaya, no driver---only the four of us--as early as 8 this morning, kids are asking that we take them out and in a little while, we'll be attending mass and eat lunch outside then we'll be heading to the grocery. Kids are asking us to take them to playhouse.....i think hubby will grant their request since later this afternoon we have to drop them at my in-law's house because i'll be meeting my highschool friends and hubby will be joining me.

HAVE A NICE AND A BLESSED SUNDAY EVERYONE!

tooth

see the mark she made on what she calls "bad tooth"

i can't help to blog this asap as it made me really laugh and sooooooooooo proud of my ate tala..........

my hubby and tala were playing catch the ball when not intentionally the ball went straight to ate tala's face.......she didn't cry.....but instead went to her room upstairs.......believing that she really got hurt.....my hubby called her out several times but didn't come out of the room......i called her and asked her to come down....after a little while.....she was on her way downstairs but not saying anything....instead, she handed me her mega sketcher........

she drew her teeth....then she said to us....i've got a bad tooth......ate tala's permanent teeth are now showing, so her milk teeth are becoming weak and are already shaking.....i can't help but to laugh because, all the while when she was in her room she was busy drawing her teeth!!!! and she was able to put a mark (*) on her badly hurt tooth!

then i remember what her pre school teacher have told us....ate tala has a wonderful hand, she can express herself thru drawings and arts......

children really are so gifted.......as parents, we should be sensitive to them and in all our simplest way, we should acknowledge and support their being creative and artistic!

Kid's Q

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telling time to young children

Young children find learning to tell the time very difficult. Before they can understand, they must acquire a sense of event sequence.

Here is an activity that will surely be of help.

This activity is called ---- MY DAY

What you need ---- * A long strip of paper
* felt pens or coloured pencils

What to do ----

Discuss with your children the sorts of things they do in a normal day. Then give them a strip of paper each and some coloured pens or pencils.

Ask them to draw a sun at one end of the paper and the moon and the stars at the other, for the beginning and end of the day. Next, they draw in their day --- when they get up, have breakfast, get dressed, go to pre-school/summer class, things they do there, come home, play outside, have their bath, have dinner, play or watch TV, brush their teeth, have stories, go to bed.

Hang their "my day" picture in their bedroom and talk about it together.

You can also hang a calendar in their room. If they are looking forward to a particular event, perhaps a birthday party or a family vacation/travel, you can cross off the days as they pass.

Enjoy being a mum con teacher!

excuse me

Excuse me......we hear these words everywhere.......excuse me is a part of our everyday language....SO, why i am writing about these words?....well, i went to the bank late this afternoon as i have to pay my credit card....i heard these 2 bank employees......they were having an argument on what "excuse me" means.....

employee 1 : Excuse me ka dyan, bakit dadaan ka ba?
employee 2: Hindi, may kukunin lang ako sa table mo.
employee 1: So, why are you saying excuse me, di ka pala dadaan?
employee 2: eh, may kukunin nga ako eh....
employee 1: dapat hindi excuse me sinasabi mo.......

At this point, i was not able to hear more of their conversation because it was my turn to pay my bill......

I wanted to tell employee 1 that employee 2 was right in using the words "excuse me"..... excuse me is more of a verbal expression or idiom.......it is used to acknowledge or ask forgiveness for an action that could cause offense......so, in the scene i mentioned above, employee 2 was asking an excuse for her "would be action" as she will be getting something from the table of employee 1.

hmmmm, next time, i hope i can share to employee 1 that excuse me is a verbal expression and it can be used to express regret and apology!......(hahahaha, apektado ako kay employee 1.....i guess she needs to be informed lang naman)