Back to school 15 July 2020

growing up fast, this photo was taken when he was below 12 years old.

It's month of July 2020, soon my son will be back to school on 15 July 2020. He has tried out the school uniform and he still can fit them. However he has not try out the school shoes, I think he can still fit in them as few months back I have bought a few pair shoes which is one or two size bigger for him. He will be getting ready hand sanitizer, extra face mask to school in case one mask is filled with sweat he got to change it with another. Of course the standard operating procedure of school to follow. I also will be giving him wipes in case he needs to use to wipe something.

Social distancing to practice of course in the school, he shared the video of school for me to see that they are practice one way walking in and out of the school.

I am sure of how is the SOP of his little brother for primary school that's his turn to back to school on 22 July 2020. It's going to be same that we be providing him the hand sanitizer, wipes, and extra face mask to bring to school. He already know of the importance of social distancing. He got a personalized mask, but he will not be using that for schooling.

Besides back to school soon, it's maybe month of August that the boys got to go back to tuition centre as waiting the tuition centre to confirm and let us know about it. As for now they are both online tuition at home, I have problem with Ipad access to Google classroom so I didn't use that anymore. My laptop is 15 years old and has got a few times auto shut down by itself, my son is using it for attending online school class Google Meet. Ipad can us for Zoom meeting, for tuition and other online class school.

The month of July indeed a special month, it's also my hubby birthday. Some of my friends already started their plan on vacation in Malaysia and some of them already started visiting places in Malaysia. As for us, we just keep calm and stay home not planning for any vacation at the moment.

Photo above my son wearing the personalized t-shirt made in 2015, click on the link to read about it.

Kids activities in Selangor/Kuala Lumpur

spot my son, he is in the group photo here

It's November, last month October the month of Halloween. My son had a great time though we didn't go many place for Halloween.Above photo is recently taken at The Curve, Damansara.

 Where to go if you are in Kuala Lumpur /Selangor for this school holidays? Its time for kids have a good time too. KidZania Kuala Lumpur, I have a code sharing with you, that you can save money. Click on the link to find out.

When comes to school holidays, often we also want to think of ourselves as we want to go shopping too. Well at the same time we want our children to have a good time for themselves, not just spending their time on the gadgets.

I wouldn't want to see my sons on gadgets all time. I prefer to see them running, doing sports activities or sweat it out at fun indoor playground. Here's another blog post to share with you, its an indoor park in Kuala Lumpur, click on the link to read it up. There have choices of kids day camps to choose from too. What's important for parents not just having good time with kids but spending quality time together too. 

I am in the midst of planning my kids tuition for next year. Yeah time to cut out the tuition time, not completely just not so many days in a week. Both my children aged 13 yrs old and 8 yrs old. Both time of schooling tuition are completely different too. There are times that I need to send him by 4pm then get him by 6.45pm then send home. Then fetch another son at 7pm then in and change clothes in car before going to tuition at 7.45pm. Time management is important to me, nobody will be there to do it but me. Just got to plan it out wisely.

Juggling life of mom of two boys and blogging

It's been quite sometimes since I blog about my juggling life as a mom of two boys. Busy in and out of the home to fetch my children from school and also for tuition centers. It's not easy tasks as there's no replacement which time is consumed and immediate action needed for example. Right after school to send to tuition so in the car, he has to eat and changed before going to tuition class. How many transporter or rider would you think that will do this? I don't think there's any especially there's need to change of uniform in car.

There's need of homework guidance and teaching them on study and tough questions to answer on Sean's paperwork. Though I have paid the tuition center to let him to learn but then the tuition center given the papers to him which he is not sure of how to answer, so I need to help him out to answer and also asking him to read and think. It's no longer UPSR but PPSR examination. Chinese papers are not easy and it's even tougher for me as I am not good with Mandarin.

If there's invitation for family events or single invite to events, I would need to think twice or triple about it as I need to consider my children's first. Whether the timing and venue are suitable for me to attend or not and whether I have time for my children or not. It's not easy so most of the time, I would let go the chances.

Sometimes the venue and time are suitable for me, consider it some me time that I can get away for a while before fetching them. Well, never forget mom duties of course and also doing what I love. I am happy that some brands are willing to send me their products for review knowing that I have busy parenting schedule.  I got invited for media trip as well but I got to let it go as I need to fetch my children, both of them now in Standard 1 and Standard 6, important stage of education in Primary School. I always advice/encourage them to read more, write more and speak more in languages. It's always easy to say than doing it.

Besides blogging and social media, I have also started Youtube, you can check out my latest video. Feel free to subscribe to my video.  There's lot to learn in editing and it's a handful of challenge in life, so just doing what I enjoy til I am bored and lose interest of it. In mean time I love what I am doing and keeping it up when I have the time.

How about you?

Spend RM243.40 on my car battery

This morning when I start the car engine, it's not working. My dear opened the car bonnet to check. I called the Tayar Shop in the morning it was round 8.45am. They are opened in the morning and asked me to wait around 15 minutes as they will send someone over to change the car battery.

It is RM230 for the Myvi Century car battery. Price after inclusive of GST is RM243.40. This month I spend quite a lot money on my car. Just last week I have my car serviced and it cost nearly RM500. I was told that I need to change the car's 4 tayar because they are over due 2 years. Do you know that we are supposed to change car tyre every 3 years? I don't know that, so means that my car's tyres are 5 years old. It would be about RM800 more or less depend type of tyre to change.

I haven't change the tyres, I am still looking if there's any good deal around.

Tuition centres for son

Parenting is never easy, part of it would be guiding children in education. I find that my son needs better guidance from tuition teachers as he lack of listening to me if I guide him. Next year he is Standard 4, it's getting tougher for him.

Instead of daycare tuition centre, he will be going to tuition centres instead. Hope this would help him in his studies. He is poor in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Cina. I tried asking for tuition centres near the school, somehow they only prefer children with better grades or good grades. Yeah they told me that they will prefer to accept children who gain 60 and above in their exams. They have one class with more than 27 students. My son is poor in comprehension (karangan) for both languages of BM and Chinese.

I found two tuition centers away from home which is 5km away. One tuition center is main focus to tuition him on Chinese language that he is poor. I was told that he might need to downgrade to Standard 3 tuition if he cannot catch up in Standard 4 tuition. Well, we'll know about this when the school start as the tuition centre will need to see his process in class, to see if he can catch up or not. I understand as it's important that he needs to read more and write more in Chinese as I know it's not his favourite subject.

Many parents told me that daycare tuition centre is not good for children as they cannot learn from there. Son told me that his daycare tuition centre changes of tuition teachers several times, most teachers are SPM leavers as they are going to go college soon.

Son not being careful in class

Not long ago my son not being careful in class, his hand injured by the sharp corner of the white board. He says he cried in class, teacher brings him to office to put medication on his hand. 

This happened in 21 May, 2014 as I have informed dear about this. 

This gives him a scar on his hand. 

Another incident happened at tuition center, a standard three boy which is a year older than uses finger's nail to scratch his nose. It leaves leave cut to his nose. This happened in August. 

These were the days he told me he cried because it hurt so much.

Mom or Dad a better teacher?

Who is a better teacher at home, mom or dad? I find that my dear can teaches son better than me. The other day I needed dear's help to guide son on the Chinese spelling, the next day son brings home 100 mark on the Chinese spelling. Wow, that's awesome!

Dear knows the way to teach him better than me. I find that son's getting lazy with me and he's more hard working when dear's around him.

It's exam week for this week and next week, education is getting tougher or harder. Many parents now rely on tuition teachers. It's great if you can teach your own child, you save lot money from going to tuition.

Cute yellow baby ducks

I haven't seen yellow ducks for a long time, I spotted these cute yellow baby ducks when I picked up my son. It's great teachers are giving children to see them, I was told that they also have rabbit. 

During your childhood, what pet do you have? I have cats and dogs. 

Do you have pet at home? If yes what type of animal? I used to like to have an iguana as pet but my dear says NO. I think he's afraid of iguana. So instead of life iguana, he gets me a t-shirt with iguana picture on it. 

My dad has two dogs at home. 

I have hamsters pet before from two hamsters, they breed over 60 hamsters. Yeah a big family and lots of cage for them, need to separate the male and female hamster to prevent them from mating.  

Tuition center every where

Being mommy of two boys, I need to find time to teach my son for homework and spelling plus other activities book which I purchased. I find that now they are many tuition centers. Each having their specialty and claiming they are the best etc. Do you think primary school students are too early to send for tuition center?

Some parents prefer two in one center which offer tuition and daycare. Some parents prefer one to one tuition for better guidance or result. Some parent with prefer center which is nearer to their home. Individual parent with different mind set.

Working parents would like to know where their children be and take care. I am not sure no parent want their children to be left behind.

I am sure parents would compare each center before decision on which tuition center to go. It also depends on the price of fee, some tuition centers request half year of tuition fee.

This will relate where the money we earning goes to.

We just want the best for our children.