Pussycat pussycat where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen.
Pussycat pussycat what did you do there?
I frightened a little mouse under the chair.
When preschool children were asked after learning the rhyme just what they think why the pussycat frightened the mouse under the queen's chair, adults would be amazed to their answers.
Kid's answers why the mouse was driven away were: it will eat the queen's chair, it will bite the queen's gown, at nighttime it may eat the queen's cheese, it will mess everywhere and so many different answers.
Truly the sense of responsibility starts in the formative years and it was inculcated that early in children thru nursery rhymes and songs. Children can conceptualize that we should keep a watchful eye on the queen's welfare or on whoever runs the kingdom or the government.
We adults should not limit ourselves on keeping eyes during election periods only, the bigger picture of political suffrage is after elections...
Let us drive all the mouse away...
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Remember when we fall...
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
There always come a point in our life that like Humpty Dumpty we would have a great fall;
We'd break down to pieces, and that's the time you will know who your loved ones and friends are;
some will just pass you by, some will watch, some will talk about your fall, some will console and stay by
your side, some will impress to give their sound advice,and some will help you mend and rise up again.
When things get all the worst...thinking that there is no other remedy some people would even take their own life.
Not all of us are Christians but all of us believe in a certain FORCE or POWER or on our own concept of GOD. Whatever is our belief, let us not ignore that two thousand years ago there is a certain MAN who died to save mankind in His way...He gave His life to us whom He love most...ON THE CROSS...
This Holy Week let us remember the Man...whose legacy is eternal...HIS TEACHINGS and the REDEMPTION.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
How about the King himself Humpty Dumpty?
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
There always come a point in our life that like Humpty Dumpty we would have a great fall;
We'd break down to pieces, and that's the time you will know who your loved ones and friends are;
some will just pass you by, some will watch, some will talk about your fall, some will console and stay by
your side, some will impress to give their sound advice,and some will help you mend and rise up again.
When things get all the worst...thinking that there is no other remedy some people would even take their own life.
Not all of us are Christians but all of us believe in a certain FORCE or POWER or on our own concept of GOD. Whatever is our belief, let us not ignore that two thousand years ago there is a certain MAN who died to save mankind in His way...He gave His life to us whom He love most...ON THE CROSS...
This Holy Week let us remember the Man...whose legacy is eternal...HIS TEACHINGS and the REDEMPTION.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
How about the King himself Humpty Dumpty?
Saturday, March 9, 2013
On Toilet Training
On toilet training...
Toilet training as early as 6 months of age makes a child sensible and responsive to the mother's early implementation of code of discipline. At 6 months of age, a mother can make her child urinate before bedtime (say at around 8pm), then after 3 1/2 hours ( around 11:30 pm), then after 3 1/2 hours again (around 3am) and finally in the morning when the child wakes up. The mother would just have to be patient putting the bedpan on top of the bed, letting her child sit on it ( or stand by the side of the bed if the child is a boy) and gently whisper to the ear of her child saying "wee wee, wee wee now my dear". Believe me, the child will respond and and the mother could happily say "Goodbye to diapers and wet beds." I am a mother and now a grandmother too, and I am speaking by experience.
Of course doing this requires a lot of patience and discipline on the mother too in this odd job of toilet training. You have to set your alarm clock every 3 1/2 hours, empty and wash the bedpan as well, but you are saving a lot of your money being wasted on disposable diapers.
Here is the most important matter on this issue of early toilet training...your child learns to be sensitive, responsive, obedient at an early age. Children who uses disposable diapers and not toilet trained till more than a year old are usually the ones who ignore what adults tell them. Why?...because that is the way they were trained in prolonged use of disposable diapers, to be callous and simply don't care!
I don't want the manufacturers of disposable diapers to get me wrong here, I am not against their products, in fact I encourage parents to use disposable diapers for their child yes, of course for the sake of their slumber and their health...but healthwise it should be only for a while, until the child is 6 months of age , the time they can start training the child. What I advocate here is responsible parenthood, responsible consumption and responsible preservation of our natural resources.
Toilet training as early as 6 months of age makes a child sensible and responsive to the mother's early implementation of code of discipline. At 6 months of age, a mother can make her child urinate before bedtime (say at around 8pm), then after 3 1/2 hours ( around 11:30 pm), then after 3 1/2 hours again (around 3am) and finally in the morning when the child wakes up. The mother would just have to be patient putting the bedpan on top of the bed, letting her child sit on it ( or stand by the side of the bed if the child is a boy) and gently whisper to the ear of her child saying "wee wee, wee wee now my dear". Believe me, the child will respond and and the mother could happily say "Goodbye to diapers and wet beds." I am a mother and now a grandmother too, and I am speaking by experience.
Of course doing this requires a lot of patience and discipline on the mother too in this odd job of toilet training. You have to set your alarm clock every 3 1/2 hours, empty and wash the bedpan as well, but you are saving a lot of your money being wasted on disposable diapers.
Here is the most important matter on this issue of early toilet training...your child learns to be sensitive, responsive, obedient at an early age. Children who uses disposable diapers and not toilet trained till more than a year old are usually the ones who ignore what adults tell them. Why?...because that is the way they were trained in prolonged use of disposable diapers, to be callous and simply don't care!
I don't want the manufacturers of disposable diapers to get me wrong here, I am not against their products, in fact I encourage parents to use disposable diapers for their child yes, of course for the sake of their slumber and their health...but healthwise it should be only for a while, until the child is 6 months of age , the time they can start training the child. What I advocate here is responsible parenthood, responsible consumption and responsible preservation of our natural resources.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
In kindergarten we learn...
Robert Fulghum says in his book "Everything I Wanted to Learn I already Learned in Kindergarten."
True enough...the home is our very first school and the family are the first teachers. What we initially acquired and learned at home are confirmed in Kindergarten...and children's curriculum is very simple: LEARNING THROUGH FUN. Children learn easily through songs and play.
Let's take a look at the song "BAA BLACK SHEEP"
Baa baa black sheep...have you any wool?
Yes Sir, yes sir three bags full
Children learn the value of sharing and concern for others easily at an early age through simple songs...
When children become grown-ups things seem to get a lot complicated...
They have to undergo a lot of trainings, seminars, reorientation on the values of responsible humanhood and governance, concern and stewarship...and spending so much on resource speakers to teach AND REMIND them what they actually learned in kindergarten...
Why dont we go back to our lessons in Kindergarten and translate our Nursery Rhymes to Adult
version and make it our mantra?
Adult Version of "Baa baa black Sheep":
Hey you, hey you outcast person in the society?
What have you, have you any wealth?
Yes sir, yes sir, allocated in three equal parts
One for the government and all institutions in the society
One for my family and the children I love
and One for Charity for the welfare of the less fortunate...
Grown-ups never forget what they learned at home and in kindergarten,
it just happened that they just want to live for themselves more...
How we teach children about selflessness, how we teach them not to follow adults selfishness...
True enough...the home is our very first school and the family are the first teachers. What we initially acquired and learned at home are confirmed in Kindergarten...and children's curriculum is very simple: LEARNING THROUGH FUN. Children learn easily through songs and play.
Let's take a look at the song "BAA BLACK SHEEP"
Baa baa black sheep...have you any wool?
Yes Sir, yes sir three bags full
- One for my master, one for my dame
Children learn the value of sharing and concern for others easily at an early age through simple songs...
When children become grown-ups things seem to get a lot complicated...
They have to undergo a lot of trainings, seminars, reorientation on the values of responsible humanhood and governance, concern and stewarship...and spending so much on resource speakers to teach AND REMIND them what they actually learned in kindergarten...
Why dont we go back to our lessons in Kindergarten and translate our Nursery Rhymes to Adult
version and make it our mantra?
Adult Version of "Baa baa black Sheep":
Hey you, hey you outcast person in the society?
What have you, have you any wealth?
Yes sir, yes sir, allocated in three equal parts
One for the government and all institutions in the society
One for my family and the children I love
and One for Charity for the welfare of the less fortunate...
Grown-ups never forget what they learned at home and in kindergarten,
it just happened that they just want to live for themselves more...
How we teach children about selflessness, how we teach them not to follow adults selfishness...
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Oh Give Me a Home...
oh give mo a home...where the buffaloes roam
where the deer and the antelopes play
where seldom is heard a discouraging word
and the skies are not cloudy all day
home...home on the range...
(there goes the beautiful nursery rhyme)
Teaching children is really fulfilling..but really challenging...
specially if your handling children with behavioral problems...
When...JUST WHEN you're starting to break off...
sing this song with your pupils (of course after explaining to them the contents of the Lyrics)
and FEEL the tranquility while hearing the children sing this...
Can you imagine a home with wild buffaloes and untamed deer living in harmony?
Oh Lord I pray for a nation so great,
of people with all the differences
living in harmony despite all adversities...
where the deer and the antelopes play
where seldom is heard a discouraging word
and the skies are not cloudy all day
home...home on the range...
(there goes the beautiful nursery rhyme)
Teaching children is really fulfilling..but really challenging...
specially if your handling children with behavioral problems...
When...JUST WHEN you're starting to break off...
sing this song with your pupils (of course after explaining to them the contents of the Lyrics)
and FEEL the tranquility while hearing the children sing this...
Can you imagine a home with wild buffaloes and untamed deer living in harmony?
Oh Lord I pray for a nation so great,
of people with all the differences
living in harmony despite all adversities...
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