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Sunday, 11 September 2016
Sunday, 17 May 2015
J Summary (6Y2M12D) - I Am Not Your Slave...
Mommy: J, please go and clean up your play room and put away your toys.
J: Mommy, I am not your slave. I am your child.
Mommy: @@@@!!!!!!?????
The other day, I read him the Bible story about the Isrealites being slaves in Egypt for 40 years and he asked me what slaves were. I explained that slaves are people who worked for free for people - called their master, and who are ill-treated by their master. Today, he used the new word that he has learned against me, and accused of me making him my slave!!!
J: Mommy, I am not your slave. I am your child.
Mommy: @@@@!!!!!!?????
The other day, I read him the Bible story about the Isrealites being slaves in Egypt for 40 years and he asked me what slaves were. I explained that slaves are people who worked for free for people - called their master, and who are ill-treated by their master. Today, he used the new word that he has learned against me, and accused of me making him my slave!!!
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Time Spent on Homework & Its Correlation with PISA Results
Recently I read an article about how much time a week the Singaporean kids spend on doing homework:
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/singapore-ranks-third-globally-time-spent-homework-20141225
If students spends 2 hours a day on homework, Monday to Friday, for 5 days it makes up to 10 hours a week, and they are free on weekends. This doesn't sound too excessive to me.
There are 168 hours a week, and 10 hours make up only 5.9% of it. If kids have a healthy amount of unstructured play time in a week too, why shouldn't they devote 6% of their time on homework? And besides homework can be fun and part of play too :-)
Too often the opposite is also true: children spend their days as if they are having 24 days of Advent Christmas everyday.
All work and no play makes Wei a dull boy. All play and no work makes Lars a dumb boy. The key here is balance.
I think the average 9.4 hours spent by students in Singapore is actually underestimated, as many receive tuitions on weekends as well.
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/singapore-ranks-third-globally-time-spent-homework-20141225
If students spends 2 hours a day on homework, Monday to Friday, for 5 days it makes up to 10 hours a week, and they are free on weekends. This doesn't sound too excessive to me.
There are 168 hours a week, and 10 hours make up only 5.9% of it. If kids have a healthy amount of unstructured play time in a week too, why shouldn't they devote 6% of their time on homework? And besides homework can be fun and part of play too :-)
Too often the opposite is also true: children spend their days as if they are having 24 days of Advent Christmas everyday.
All work and no play makes Wei a dull boy. All play and no work makes Lars a dumb boy. The key here is balance.
I think the average 9.4 hours spent by students in Singapore is actually underestimated, as many receive tuitions on weekends as well.
Friday, 8 August 2014
J Summary (5Y5M4D) - On a Sleepy Saturday Morning...
J: Mommy, wake up
Mommy: Okie (Zzzzzzz)
J: Mommy, wake up.
Mommy: Okie (Zzzzzzz)
J: Mommy, wake up. Otherwise, we have no time to practise the piano!
Mommy: Okie dokie, true (Mommy sprang out of bed right away)
J knows the way to Mommy's heart... or should I say, Mommy's sleepy head.
One hour later... J is still not at his piano.
Mommy: @@@@????!!!! (Got cheated)
Mommy: Okie (Zzzzzzz)
J: Mommy, wake up.
Mommy: Okie (Zzzzzzz)
J: Mommy, wake up. Otherwise, we have no time to practise the piano!
Mommy: Okie dokie, true (Mommy sprang out of bed right away)
J knows the way to Mommy's heart... or should I say, Mommy's sleepy head.
One hour later... J is still not at his piano.
Mommy: @@@@????!!!! (Got cheated)
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