Challenge one...

It was Monday (2 days ago)..

He gave me his homework. Inside..i was starting to dread terribly....thinking... one page of written homework..4 lines per hour... one page?approximately 10 lines....Argh!!!

Well.. we did the routine... him playing.. never wanting to sit still... i started my get angry mode.. nope.. didnt work... ceza (punishment).. nope... didnt work either... him crying... me.. going out of my sanity... i tried every trick in my head... soft mode... angry mode... screaming mode.. u name it..i did it...i mean .. come on!! how can any mother endure dealing with the son's homework for 2 hours and a half for just a simple one page writing, eh?

When he begged me to allow him to stay at home on tuesday...he had a terrible flu... he was not feeling well.. i reluctantly let him..but i was determined to not let him play all day long... n so i made him write *el* in his exercise book using the cursive writing...

and when we were getting started.. i remember my beloved's suggestion that i should *time* him... and so..playfully.. smilingly... i told him that let say.. after 5 minutes, my handphone alarm will ring and he should finish writing a line before that... i told him that i would be somewhere else and that he should call me whenever he finished a line...energeticaly, he did..in less than one minute per line!!! Of course after each line we played *chase and run*.. he was having fun and for once..i was not acting like a crazy screaming mom...(THANK YOU ALLAH for letting me remember that suggestion of his!!!)

Today, once he came home from school..i was afraid that yesterday's method wouldnt work today... Alhamdulillah..it still works..i mean.. he did all the 10 lines in less than 30 minutes!!! why havent i think of it before...?? baddin is into numbers...this is just perfect for him!!time.. he loves!And from what i see, i think he will be fine after all in writing... i dont expect that he will have the perfect cursive handwriting.. but at this stage..as he was writing *ele*..he did not tremble while writing as he did last year as i was training him to write properly..i think his finger muscles a much uch stronger come grade one..

It was also yesterday i realise what a nice man (insyaAllah) he will be...

Yesterday, i needed to buy the heater..esp since baddin has started to catch cold... our home heater was broken... n baddin... being the sensitive (hassas) child that he is... prone to health problem (we have 2 nebulisers at home)....it was necessary to drag him with me as i drove the car to bahause at içerenköy.

Of course since bahause is just next to Carrefour, i decided to buy some necessary groceries as well...And u know what?? he was forever helpful!! Acting like a big guy, he tried to push the trolley... later he helped to empty almost all the stuffs we bought onto the payment counter... that was not enough... he even helped carry the grocery bags into the car...later out of the car..into the apartment and into the kitchen..!! he even offered to carry the box containing the heater!! hahah naturally i declined his help..i think the box was even bigger and much much heavier than he is!! hahahahaah i think that he has appointed himself as the guardian of us girls... his sister n his mom... coz my beloved n i kept telling him...

*once u r grown up.. even though by age u r smaller than ur sister.. u have to protect ur sister...u r a guy. Dont let anyone hurt her*....i think he listens to that...

That of course doesnt stop him from being naughty!! He just told us today that he got punished for pretending to be and acting like a *heykel!!*... his dad had explained to him why that was wrong and seconded with the punishment that his teacher had iven him (and another friend)... He said he saw that on the movies.. Oh gee..my kids rarely watch tv..n movies.. n we r strict about what they can watch.. n still.. he is negatively influenced somehow... We need to watch over him... carefully.. my beloved n i at home... Arzu hanim n all the teachers in school...Alhamdulillah..i am glad to say that i can send my kids to this school with an open heart and an easy mind coz i know that he is in good hands...insyaAllah...