Oral Exam is coming

It is examination period and most parents are preparing their kids and equipping their kids with most of the examination strategy.  I am not any different and giving the last burst of fire on the Oral.  


I found that pulling out an article on the Chinese newspaper works for my kids.  They become inquisitive over the general issues and we expanded from Oral preparation to debating on the rights and wrong of the approach to issues faced in Singapore education.


My kids are not very into reading newspaper as they felt it is boring or in their language "so lame".  The last few days of oral preparation begin to draw their interest in newspaper reading.  I hope they continue this trend after their Oral preparation and open up their mind about social issues and general matters around the world.


My Jerry, who does not understand much about our discussion on the newspaper article, felt left out and pick up my iPhone to explore games "Plant vs Zombie"  He is good at the game and share his new adventures or achievement.  When I am back at home, I always felt that I have entered into another corporation.  I still have my 1 to 1, managing attention, politics and motivating staff. 


I love to see them discussing issues among themselves over the dinner.  My wife also added yesterday that such scene of kids discussion would not be possible if we decided with 1 kid.  Our decision of 3 kids are purely motivated from our worried for our kids to be burdened in future for handling 2 sets of old aged parent.  The issue will be compounded if our daughter in law or son in law is also single child.  Their annual leave may not be sufficient to cover if we are down with some illness.  Coming from more than 1 kid family, I appreciate the helping hands in my family to take care of my mum.


I hope to give my kids the right family value and constantly communicating with them on the reality of life.  I believe that improving their maturing will improve their academy results. I hope I am on the right track and teenage days would be another test to my strategy to parenting.


It is getting late and would like to conclude my blog with 3 things that make me smile today:
1) Called Nicole to give assessment paper and was surprised by her reply on her initiative of completing the past year assessment paper for English.
2) Daryl read the Chinese paper with better annotation then yesterday and his inquisitive of the Chinese newspaper article illustrated his interest in the Chinese language
3) I learnt some best practices in training professional