Ian 3rd Birthday Party

After few months preparation, finally everyone enjoyed with the party packs, goodies bag, games and food...
I prepared the food, and luckily got help by friends & relatives...

Plastic Bottles

Did you ever drink from a plastic bottle and see a triangle symbol on the bottom with a number inside?

Do you know what the number stands for?
Did you guess that it's just for recycling?  
Then you are WRONG !!!!!!
THE NUMBER TELLS YOU  THE CHEMICAL MAKE UP OF THE PLASTIC.....

1)    Polyethylene terephalate (PET)
2)    High density polyethylene (HDPE)
3)    Unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (UPVC) or
       Plasticised polyvinyl chloride (PPVC)
4)    Low density polyethylene (LDPE)
5)    Polypropylene (PP)
6)    Polystyrene (PS) or Expandable polystyrene (EPS)
7)    Other, including nylon and acrylic

What you aren't told is that many of the plastics used are toxic and the chemicals used to create a plastic can leach out of the plastic and into the food/drink.
Think about it, how many times have you or a friend said "I don't like this, it taste like the plastic bottle ....."

THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE TASTING THE PLASTIC

The WORST ONES are Nos: 3, 6, and 7 !!!

DO NOT USE THESE NUMBERS if stated at the bottom of the bottle) !!!
Check out this chart that breaks down the plastic, its uses and chemical makeup (I find #7 a little scary)

Parenting Seminar

James & I attended a parenting seminar organised by Tadika GCC, Desa Setapak in one of their Tadika, Sri Manja Canggih. The speaker is Dr Goh... The seminar gave us some ideas on how to handle our kid, and deal with them... and the most important the parents is the key of the child's future...

Firstly, he suggested to have parents meeting to discuss what qualities and values are important to us, i.e., what qualities do we want to encourage in our child and search for our motives, i.e., why are these important to us?  And to ensure child centered parenting.
Come to the area of development, i found that we needs more effort on ian's emotional development and moral/spiritual development...
One of the Keys to Create a Conducive Environment for Growth is to spend one to one time with our child, i.e., not just task focused but also leisure and enjoyment...

Besides, practice child-initiated learning from the very start by setting the direction, the pace and parents role as a facilitator.  After that, give our child some structures, like have clear boundaries that are value and security based (can be discussed as they grow older), communicate clearly about these boundaries, make sure they are clear of the consequences of these boundary violations, follow through on action to boundary violations, punishment based on child's actions and intentions. As a parents must lead by example also, model the values we expect in our child and cultivate our own physical, intellectual, emotional, social and moral development in our regular life reflection.

Lastly, encourage and cultivate dreams and ambitions. Do not force our dreams on our children, allow them to express their dreams and hopes, do not put down these dreams and help them create plan of action.

In conclusion, Positive Parenting requires a lot of time and work, patience and perseverance, love and grace.