Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Back to basics


I have been getting worried with some lack of development or missing milestone. So I'm going back to basics with some of them and I got to pin point where and what did we miss.

One of them being not always responding to his name being called. Secondly is his lack of eye contact - which has improved lately. Thirdly, finger pointing.

Let's not get ourselves with too much on the plate. So will be working on these for now.

I read this article and find it to be useful and will work on this for item #1 on the list. So yesterday we started our reward system. He got 7 "rewards" and I must say we really gotta work on it harder. Today was much lesser earlier in the day, maybe because he was "angry" with me for making him to sit in the public toilet for his big business. He has this thing about public toilet and will just refused to use it no matter how desperate he is. And so he wasn't too interested to do ANYTHING that I asked of him. But later in the evening, he responded a handful of times - this is after me letting him joined me in the kitchen while I cook. Recently I bought him some pots and pans and cooking utensils that he can play with. He seems to enjoy himself very much and this is one of his creative play session.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Favourite playground

Little Andrew is not a fan of playground since his first experience - be it indoor or outdoor, he is just not into it.

So one day, we went to Ikea and they have this children furnitures and toys on display in a section at the entrance area. It was filled with soft toys, toy kitchen cabinets, toy cooking utensils, tables, chairs, cars, etc. Andrew immediately felt right at home! He was playing with everything there! I didn't expect him to be so mesmerised by the play area that he refused to leave - BOTH TIMES we went to Ikea!

Money saving tips- no need to bring your kids to expensive indoor playground, just bring them to Ikea!