The Dad in the Mirror. This is the title of the book I am re-reading. There are so many little gems of fathering advice that I urge all dads to read it.
How often have we heard our children say, “Papa (Mama), I want to be like you”. I am sure most of us have. Of late, I have been hearing this sentence countless times from my 4-year-old son. When I roam around the house without my shirt on, he says he wants to do that. When he sees me sleep with just T-shirt and shorts, he wants to change from his long sleeve pyjamas and shorts too.
Our children yearns for a father figure to lead and to guide them properly. Too often than not, we dads (me included) are totally clueless on how to do so. We father for performance, rather than fathering the heart.
The first gem I got from this book is this, “..when children feel grace and acceptance from their father, their hearts grow strong with a love for GOD and others“. Ponder on this, it is a great piece of advice.
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Footyman and his wife is back after a 3 month hiatus
We hope to bring you more interesting posts with regards to our parenting challenges going forward. And we certainly hope we can keep this blog going…..even until our son is of age to have his own children, and learn a trick or two from the posts here!!
In the meantime,theChildIsKing would like to wish everyone a blessed time during the holiday season. ..MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Quite some time ago my little son came back from school and told me (while pointing to his chest) “Mama, Ms XXX’s chest is like the backside, got a hole”.
I nearly fell off my chair.
“Oh” I said. “Did you tell Ms XXX that?”
“No” he replied.
The next day I went to school and stole a glance at Ms XXX. Couldn’t exactly see the cleavage but the bosom does look ample. My little son must have caught a glimpse of “stuff not meant for his young eyes” when Ms XXX bent down in class.
Bring out your tissues and watch Charisse Pempengco sings with her idol Celine Dion at Madison Square. Charisse is magnificent as is Celion Dion magmanimous. Wonderful.
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true”
~ Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
Recently we were helping our 3.5yr old son with his school homework (yes homework, my goodness!)
We were basically searching for items that start with the letters that were assigned for the given week.
Our little son has caught on a little of this “game” and started suggesting things that starts with the assigned letters. Of course he doesn’t know how to spell words yet. But the way he (and I suppose other kids as well) is learning is interesting and sometimes …cute.
An example is this declaration one day…”I know papa, scissors start with “C”!” (Get it? “C”sers)
For the longest time, my wife and I were wondering when our 3-year-old son will start pronouncing the letter “S” (and “F”) correctly.
We both knew these were 2 of the more difficult letters most young kids will master pronouncing correctly last. But we just wondered when…
So imagine our joy when out of the blue one day, my wife noticed he could pronounce it properly in a one of the words he used. Just a few days before, we also noticed he could pronounce “V”an instead of “Ban”.
Now it is a matter of changing the habit. Occasionally he will still say “You TEE”, and we would both jump in “You SEE!”
Here’s a useful article for parents who are stressed out with their kids mis-pronounciation. Do not be so hastened to look for a speech therapist.
It was her birthday last week and all her classmates including my little son got goody bags. When I asked whose birthday it was my little son’s good friend Dominic kindly informed me that “it’s Hazina’s birthday!”
Seriously I do not know how “Hazina” ended up as “Parina”. My little son could pronounce “h” as in “horse” but why not “Hazina”? Beats me. The world of the little children is sometimes like an enigma.
Today while sending my little son to school we saw the principal (Mrs Tan) talking to a few other people. We were waiting for the lift and the principal was talking to the few people just beside the lift. They were speaking in Mandarin about some timing issue.
When the lift door opened we went in. As soon as the lift door closed, my little son looked at me conspiringly and said “Mrs Tan was talking about Mrs Chee.” Mrs Chee, by the way, is my little son’s form teacher.
I was most surprised by what he said. I didn’t know what the principal was talking about but I was sure she wasn’t talking about Mrs Chee. Besides she was speaking in Mandarin, a language which my little son struggles with.
“How do you know?” I prodded.
“Because Mrs Tan said chee” he replied.
Oh. I was most amused by his revelation. Before I could say anything, the lift door opened and my little son said goodbye and happily went into class. Imagine if he had gone into class and told his form teacher that the principal was talking about her! And his form teacher would probably believe him because as we all know, children don’t lie.
Yes, children don’t lie. But they often misinterpret.
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Footyman and his wife is back after a 3 month hiatus 
For the longest time, my wife and I were wondering when our 3-year-old son will start pronouncing the letter “S” (and “F”) correctly.
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