Tiring Out the Destructive Force Part 3
To keep them out of mischief, tire them out with one leg stand competition! I can feel my brain cells withering bit by bit every day from coming up with new ideas.
#hbl #onelegstand #sigina #destructiveforce
Tiring Out the Destructive Force Part 4
He was left alone while daddy was working and I was going through 姐姐‘s papers.
Hmmm… it’s too quiet… I get worried when it gets too quiet. The last time he went all quiet, I saw water gushing out from the toilet door gap. He flooded his room toilet. 😑
I’d better go up and see what’s left of the living room.
Waaa!! Surprise!!
When gadgets, computers and TVs are removed from the equation, the kid automatically starts playing with the old forgotten toys and board games. It’s good to go gadget free. Looks like his addiction is waning, he’s stopped crying for the computer. 💪🏼
My HBL Life
When I’m not busy preventing one kid from 拆房子, I’m marking past year science and maths papers of the other.
Tween refused to let me take photo of her doing homework. 😪 so can only post her ugly handwriting on exam paper.
It’s even worse if I lose the answer key. 😩 Then I’ve to do the whole exam paper from page to page!!! Macham taking PSLE several times. 😓 Such is my life. #sadlife
#hbl #baobei #psle #exampapers
Weiqi and Ming
老师：城明的棋下得非常凶。等下有机会，同学们应该跟他下一下。看看他的计算能力。非常的强。
Me (whispers): you know how to 算very well meh?
小小宝贝 (whispers back): Actually i don’t 算, I just anyhow put.
😅😅😅😅
I don’t understand the teacher 90% of the time. The whole 围棋 lesson is conducted fully in Chinese and they have a lot of weird jargons like 扭羊头 and what nots… Ok lah. He’s forced to go through the lessons in Chinese, so hopefully, it would help with his grasp of the language.
Tiring out the Destructive Force Part 2
Today’a goal : getting him out of the house and working off excess energy.
7.30am (Only… Sigh…)
I did my 20 mins of swimming while they played catching or monkey or whatever in the pool. Then I was roped in to play Marco Polo, catching, piggy, one leg hop fight, monkey (a lot of animals here…practically the whole zoo).
We had the whole pool to ourselves until 9am when people started arriving to use it.
Ran home to avoid the crowd.
Only 9am. Shit… what else to do. 🤦🏻♀️
9.30am
The whole family took turns to keep him occupied in the morning.
姐姐 played a few rounds of Chinese chess with him. It’s so hard to post pictures of the tween nowadays. She refuses to pose and when she does, she bans me from posting it on social media. Sigh.
Very aggressive play… ate up many of 姐姐‘s pieces…
姐姐 needed to do her psle revision. Passed him over to Daddy. They played so many rounds that he got sick of the traditional one.
“Eh! Your pieces are not set up properly!”
“Haha! I just invented a new way of playing. We can set it up any way we want to counter the opposite player.” Ok…. #playuntilnothingtoplay 🤦🏻♀️
It’s not even lunchtime yet. This is going to be a looooong day!
Late afternoon… (his usual gaming/tv time)
Reality has finally set in! Now he’s 生不如死！Feeling very Cham and sorry for himself. #repentance
He’s happy again. No computer gaming + no tv = play board game. He’s generally a very happy kid. Figuring that there’s no way around his punishment, he decided that he might as well keep himself happy playing games. He’s occupied until dinner time…
I predict that we will go through all the drama again tomorrow. Meanwhile, happy board gaming!
Chronicles of the Destructive Force Part 1
The destructive force swept through my house like a hurricane. Within 1 week of HBL, he’s broke :
- the Angel of Hope I carefully brought back from the States. He was hitting his table tennis balls in the house and it knocked it off the display shelf and beheaded it. I was hopping mad. He tearfully emptied his entire piggy bank of $35 and borrowed $22 from Daddy (to be paid back in instalments of $2 per week) to buy one off EBay.
- all these table tennis balls. I’ve absolutely no idea how he managed to crack them up like this. That’s why he’s named the destructive force.
- a Gaudi display mug that’s twice his age. I was bathing when he did it so I’d absolutely no idea what he did. When I came down, he was 罚站 in a corner in the living room. Unable to find it online for him to buy it and go into further debt. Do not be mistaken that he’s crying out of remorse. He’s agonised because he’s had his computer game and tv rights removed for 1 month.
At the rate he’s going, I won’t have a house left by the end of HBL. 😩
#hbl #sigina #xiaoxiaobaobei #destructiveforce #angelofhope #gaudi #tabletennis
PE HBL – Anyhow Do!
This is what happens during PE HBL. Anyhow do… 😓
#sigina #hbl #covid_19
Ming and the Piano
He proudly showed us his result slip. “I’ve got perfect score! Only 3 people in 2 classes got it!” “Huh! So easy arh! Your examiner must have been very lenient.” He didn’t take offence. Probably was in a super good mood 🤣 Or he didn’t hear me. 🤭
The good thing was… he dropped the idea of stopping lessons.
“Mommy, if I’m too busy, the first thing I want to stop is Yamaha.” “Aiya you only practise 5 mins every day. How much time will you save?? 5 mins??” “Nooo! I practise 15 mins every day ok! Not 5 mins!!!” “Ok lor. You save 15 mins every day. What would you do with this extra 15 mins?? Watch Netflix?? Anyway 15 mins a day can get you good results, what’s your problem huh?” “Ok ok. Don’t make me practise more than 15 mins!” 🙄
#sigina #foreverbargaining #yamaha
HBL can be Lots of Fun!
The kiddos are starting think that HBL is lots of fun! Morning exercise this morning was to play catching (me included) at the playground for 1 hour!! Tired die me!!! 😵
We owned the playground!! No one else was there! The rest of the kiddos were still in school.
The exercise area, on the other hand, was pretty crowded!! Virus 🦠 alert!!! 📣📣📣
Meanwhile… HBL can be lots of fun! Keep chill everyone!!
#hbl #covid_19
Coping with HBL – Timetables and Schedules
HBL here we come!! 💪🏼 The kiddos used their last HBL schedules as a reference and did up their new timetables for this round. It’s much easier this time as they’ve done it before.
Time management is a life skill. Kind of liking this home schooling thingy as I can add on more extra stuff. 😈😈
We’ve done our 1h swimming this morning. Slightly behind schedule but we will catch up! I noticed that the kiddos added a lot of buffer in the planning. There are lots of food breaks. 🤔 And SOMEONE certainly doesn’t take 30 mins for piano practice. More like 5 mins. 😓
Zaobao (早报) picked up on the news and we are on the news!! ok ok.. cheap thrill….
#hbl #covid_19 #zaobao #timetable #baobeis