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WHEN SHOULD YOU LET YOUR KIDS START CHORE?!

The kids are getting out of hand. They will fight to watch they favourite cartoon on the weekend.

And all they want is to watch, Avengers, Ironman, Spiderman and Black Panther. YES WE ARE THE Marvel Fan.

Sorry Jason Momoa.

So I decided to set some rules here.

I homemade some chores chart. And if they complete certain amount of chores they earn their screen time.

So far this is the second week. I will said it work rather well for the elder gals. DIDI is only 3. So he will pick this up soon.

Here is the thing-

I notice the effect that impact my kids :

  1. They feel they are have a target to work towards to.
  2. They feel important, both gals did not want to sleep but want to finish their responsibility chore chart.
  3. They take pride to complete.
  4. They know alot of time and effort is place in to complete these responsibility and those hard earn earn screen time should not be wasted.
  5. They wanna keep those precious mins to watch their favourite movie or YouTuber – Casey Neistat or Mr Yang 楊家成 video.

Yes they can still watch TV, but they have to watch the adults are watching. We will use this time to watch more educational shows. If not they can go read a book or play.

New Year Resolutions : 2019

Ok it is the time of the year, when you look back and reflect what you have done on your 2018 New Year resolutions. BANG!! None are achieve… Why???

Here are my Excuses (what are yours):

  • I do not see these changes necessary.
  • I am lazy.
  • Actually, I set these only to think I am cool to follow the trend.
  • I never place these resolutions on a piece of paper. So it kinda get lost in the back of my mind.

So will I be setting this for 2019. Of course, I am.

But it is going to be different this year. The list will not be long, it need to be achievable and realistic.

Regulate check ON MY PLAN:

  1. Exercise 10 mins a day.
  2. Start my blog, and post at least 2 posts a week.
  3. Save money.
  4. Plan a monthly Family day each month for the family.

Let’s start now, why wait till 1st Jan 2019.

Let me know what is your 2019 resolution list.

Happy New Year!

When should kids get a phone?

Queenie is asking Tooth fairy to bring her a phone. I had to tell her it is too heavy for the tooth fairy, and they will not know what type they should get for you. She is only 7 years old.

Is age really the issue?

Photo by mohamed Abdelgaffar on Pexels.com

I feel that is not so much on what age shall we give them. The key word is Maturity, are they mature enough to handle this gadget. And the world she gonna be expose to.

Like she will be influence with all the inappropriate content, addicted to games, become overly depending on social media, or even get bullied in the cyber world. Not to mention the the increase cases of scam calls. These are kid we are talking about, they are not mentally prepared for these cases.

On the other hand, I also want her to be technological savvy.

But deep down I know she is not ready to own a phone:

  • She still do not understand the concern of $$, what if she lost the phone. she will not feel the pinch
  • No able to follow strictly on schedule, let alone follow my limited screen time rule
  • she does not portray to me she have a sense of responsibility of her actions and chores, tasks

So Mr L and I decided, she will not have the phone. Until, she show us she is ready.

Meanwhile, she will have guided screen time with us on laptop or ipad or. Us as parents, we must limited our phone time as well, so the kids know phone is not the only thing in the world.

TRAVEL

Learning.

I remember someone asked me before why I loved to travel.

I told them I want to learn, experience and understand things that are difference from our normal life.

Because every destination is unique there are different areas for us to explore to learn.

The ordeal that we put ourselves into preparing the trip is the start of our learning journey. It will teach us many thing that cannot be learn thru normal context.

Chinese have a saying

讀萬卷書不如行萬里路

Means, one that travels far knows much.

I love to travel with people that I love.

My parents, Mr L and 3 monsters.

I will like to use this blog to jot down all those journey I had made. A place that I want to keep these memories and pain.

Traveling with elderly and kids is not a beautiful picture. But it does left alot of beautiful memories.

Cheers

2018 Christmas Family Dinner

It is a Yearly Family Event. Where we will order a Christmas meal set.

And my supermum, would cook pasta, fried nuggets, mashed potatoes, salad wrap, fries, Turkey, sausages, beef , ham and many others.

How can we have a Christmas gathering without the Christmas Tree.


Look at the amount of presents.. all of them to belong to the 6 little monsters. 

After the meal, my dear sister, A, organised an mini sports day for the kids. She loves kids, I seriously think she need to reconsider her career choices.

We had quite a number of events running, passing baton, 3 legged race and catch the tails.. Alot of crying, alot of laughter and fun.

She even prepare little trophy for the winning team!

All ready for the sports event

And lastly, dessert…yummy…

The monsters will sure sleep well tonight.

The whole dinner got me thinking. The amount of effort everyone placed in.

My mum, prepared the meal, 8 dishes. And desserts.

My sis ordered the sports day event kit and she even got a Santa suit for her Husband, J to wear.

My bro helped to order the Christmas dinner set.

Me…I only helped to collect the sports day kit. I do feel guilty for not doing much. Mr L… he is probably don’t feel a thing.

Thank you for making tonight memorable.

Merry Christmas.