youpi,
ah you are just a font of scary stories la. maybe bcz you spend so much time outside with the boys and your professional trg enables you to pick nuances that others miss too. plus you are a sensitive (in the good way, i must add) mother.
i still rem the one abt you and the 6yo left alone to fend for himself at the public library from 12 noon to 6pm. that still makes me both sad and mad, mad enough to want to scratch out his mum's eyes in my mind, for abandoning him. what if he follows a stranger, what if he is molested in the boys' toilet... what if... so many what ifs.
things in C1's class are still overall civil. i think tis due to the principal having a very good hold on both the teachers and the children. lax in most normal situations and quick to spot and stop potential violence if need be.
also helps that the parents of C1's classmates all behave like the normal (read: wont slap kids, scold vulgarities at kid or otherwise do funny things) kind of parents. who do you think those peeing, spitting, punching preschoolers learn it from? at HOME from their parents.
okok i have been thinking v much abt this since our new Education Minister brgt up the teaching of values in schools. if every parent fulfils their own respty at home to teach our own children, then there is really no need for values-teaching to fall to the school teacher.
tis only when other parents are lax, then we need to ask the teacher to intervene to stop the other kid fm going too far with our kids. a totally messed-up situation if you ask me.
pls do not have children if you want to abdicate the values-teaching to someone else
fighting over toys
this is what C1 says when C2 snatches "HEY! that is mine, not yours. i play first. you take this one", thrusting another toy into C2's hand. tis actually quite funny how the same script comes out from C1's mouth every single time. i did not teach him those words, so the school must have. i m far happier that he learns self-awareness, getting along with others and social skills in school, than learning his acad stuff like reading words / chinese words / maths / science.
ah you are just a font of scary stories la. maybe bcz you spend so much time outside with the boys and your professional trg enables you to pick nuances that others miss too. plus you are a sensitive (in the good way, i must add) mother.
i still rem the one abt you and the 6yo left alone to fend for himself at the public library from 12 noon to 6pm. that still makes me both sad and mad, mad enough to want to scratch out his mum's eyes in my mind, for abandoning him. what if he follows a stranger, what if he is molested in the boys' toilet... what if... so many what ifs.
things in C1's class are still overall civil. i think tis due to the principal having a very good hold on both the teachers and the children. lax in most normal situations and quick to spot and stop potential violence if need be.
also helps that the parents of C1's classmates all behave like the normal (read: wont slap kids, scold vulgarities at kid or otherwise do funny things) kind of parents. who do you think those peeing, spitting, punching preschoolers learn it from? at HOME from their parents.
okok i have been thinking v much abt this since our new Education Minister brgt up the teaching of values in schools. if every parent fulfils their own respty at home to teach our own children, then there is really no need for values-teaching to fall to the school teacher.
tis only when other parents are lax, then we need to ask the teacher to intervene to stop the other kid fm going too far with our kids. a totally messed-up situation if you ask me.
pls do not have children if you want to abdicate the values-teaching to someone else
fighting over toys
this is what C1 says when C2 snatches "HEY! that is mine, not yours. i play first. you take this one", thrusting another toy into C2's hand. tis actually quite funny how the same script comes out from C1's mouth every single time. i did not teach him those words, so the school must have. i m far happier that he learns self-awareness, getting along with others and social skills in school, than learning his acad stuff like reading words / chinese words / maths / science.
