M2M Sharing : Kindergarten … Part 2

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:39:24 +0800
Subject: Re: Tadika Brainchild
From: dy_chong@pan-abrasives.com
To: ipeng_2@hotmail.com

Dear Ipeng,

Thank you for your reply and information. In fact, I've enrolled my daughter in April at her age of 3. Is a bit young to enrol her but I've no choice cause no one is able to help me to take care of her. I've enrolled her for day care as well. You are right, sometime I'm really not sure whether I've made a correct decision. After she started 2months with Brainchild, I only see the improvement on her art and speech but not so much on the discipline side and in fact she is worst in term on her behaviour and emotional.

I was wondering why. Whenever, I asked the day care teacher there..they comment she is good and obedient...sigh. Anyway, we are going to have teacher parent meeting day on Sat 11/6 and hopefully I can work out something with teacher.

Based on my observation, I've no doubt on their morning session but ? on their day care service. 

I know teacher Joyce and she seems very experience there. My girl is in 3 Love 1 with teacher Victoria.

You are right, I'm in dilemma stage at this moment. Like you said, we should communicate more with the teachers to make things happen. She is my only daughter, probably because of that she glue to us a lot and very demanding. So, we need the professional like teacher to assist us to educate our child.

Once again, thanks for your kind advice and you are such kind & perfect mom. I am a very aggressive mom and get angry easily..lack of patience which I'm learning to be more patience. My daughter got all my bad tempered :-(

Till then, nice chatting with you and I hope to learn more from you to be a good mom.

Thank you

Mrs Kok

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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Ipeng Too <ipeng_2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Mrs Kok,

Don't worry so much ya. My daughter was the same during her 3 Love 1 with Teacher Victoria. She got my bad tempered too. :-( She can't really speak well and all the teachers hardly understand what she is trying to say. Me as her mum too. Most of the time, i had to check with Issac what his sister was trying to tell me, as both of them 'communicate' a lot and Issac understand her 'baby talk'. And, Teacher Victoria and Teacher Joyce advised us give a lot of encouragements or compliments to her.

I think during my daughter at her 3 years old, she wanted to be listen and treated the same like an adult or like her big brother. She wants to be listened, I guessed. That is why she is manja all the time, and make sure that parents pay the attention to her. I guessed that was the case and even now too. She got her own character compared with her brother. When she insisted, that is the things she wants. Teacher Joyce did tell us that, if we talk to her nicely, explains to her, even though she didn't change her face expressions, but her ears is listening. Sometimes, we would be surprise that she will remember and repeat the same things we said months ago.

Well, this coming Teachers Parents Meeting, we will discuss with both kids teachers and see what is the improvements that we can do. Actually, compared with last year, I can see Issac's improvements on his academic side because he 'click' with his Teacher Law very well, and we did highlight to her last year. Especially the afternoon day care session, the homework revision session.

I try not to emphasis on the academic so much, but emphasis on his enthusiasm to learning. But i do not know how 'far' can i let go.. I am not a good mum too, sometimes my temper just goes off like that. We learn from each other, even from our kids.

Happy Parenting.

M2M Sharing : Kindergarten … Part 1

Actually I seldom check and see my own blog, and never comes to my mind that someone will leave down any comment on the blog.

Today, 1 comment stated on my blog really surprised me. It is on one of Issac’s 4 Joyful 1 group photo.

DC said...

Hi Ipeng,
I'm Mrs Kok here. I happen to see your blog when I'm browsing about Tadika Brainchild on the internet. I'm so glad to read all about your son Isaac's experiences at Brainchild as I'm still dilemma whether this tadika is good for my daughter or not as I'm thinking to enrol her for 3yrs old (2nd term) morning session & day care. After reading your blog, I guess my choice at Brainchild is correct. How you take the photos when your son is in the class? You were there for him at that time? Is really an interesting blog and I'm truly appreciate if you could share more information with me about Brainchild.
Thank you
Mrs Kok (dychong@gmail.com)

It written on 1 March 2011, but I just saw this today only…Then, I just dropped an email to her, share with her on our experiences at Tadika Brainchild.

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Dear Mrs Kok,

Sorry for being late reply to your post on my blog. Seriously, i do not do my blog settings well enough, as i did not know someone had posted a comment on my blog.

Well, actually at first i do have the same doubts like you, during the time both my husband and I wanted to enrol Issac to Brainchild. Is it the right place? Can our child adapt to it? Or can Brainchild teach him well enough to get him prepare for his primary 1 at Che Wen later on? and lots of questions...

We had enrolled him at his age of 4. We can feel and see his progress during his 4 Joyful 1 year. We are fortunate that we met with really dedicated teachers. Teacher Joyce is one of them. At the very beginning, we just enrolled him to the morning session only, he is not really a 'discipline boy'. Then we had enrolled him to the day care as well at the 2nd half year, most probably the schedule in the Brainchild had disciplined him a bit, at least a more 'structure day' for him. We started to see his changes.

Actual fact, his 5 Patience 1 days, was not a really 'impressive' year as both my hubby and I were not really see his progress. During the Teachers Parents Meeting, we did highlight to the teachers on our opinions and findings, exchange ideas, etc. And, last year, both my husband and I went thru the dilemma of 'do we need to transfer him to another tadika'? At the end, we both came to the conclusion that - we stayed and communicate more frequently with the school and teachers. We do agreed that raising or rather brought up a child is a 2 way communications with the school and ourselves.

Both of us are putting more concerns and efforts in the interest of his learning towards the world, rather than the academic side. Bring them out more to the nature, let the kids explore thru their senses, etc. Besides, Issac loves to draw, we let him go for art class. And, here he now in 6 Caring 2. He is a caring and helpful boy. He is still naughty too. Last week, he had to stand at a corner due to 'playing until fight with his friends'. We can see his 'homework' improve a lot compare to last year.

We are glad and grateful. We try not to compare our children with others, because each and individual is different and every child have their own growth path and phases.

About the photos, that were actually copied from their school CD. Brainchild do kept a copy of CD to the parents at end of the year, records of their children life at tadika. Well, I am writing blog because i want to keep a diary on my children's growth. Try to spend as much time as possible to record down their livings. If I do not write now, i will forget and so were they. Even now, I can hardly recalled my childhood days... And I do have a lot to back date, because there are a lot of photos not upload and write yet!

I do not know whether you have enrol your child to Brainchild. But, that is all i would share with you on our experience with Brainchild.

Cheers,
Ipeng