Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Reading?

Frankly speaking...for years i was worried... Baddin had not shown much interest in looking at books....He rarely joined us when we all read books as a family.... listening to his siter reading books loudly to me (in grade one) but not really showing his interest.....

I should have guessed... He didnt want to join in coz he didnt know how to read... being the boy he is.. he wanted to be perfect...wanted to read perfectly...since he couldnt...so why bother??

Now that he has learned a few alphabets.. he is eager to read the book provided for his level... and somehow deep down..i can sense that he willbe one into reading... Well...after all.. he wants to be a *hoca*...just like his grandpa... and he did tell me that

*dede dan daha çok çok okucağım!*
(i will read lots more than dede read)

go ahead! i am not complaining oğlum..!



Sunday, October 19, 2008

His sis being ill

When his sister was hospitalised for 2 days due to an emergency operation due to a twisted and dead cyst.... we knew from experience never to bring him to the hospital to see her.Eversince his dede being hospitalised and died a couple of months ago.. he had shown a very deep emotional trauma if he ver visit a hospital. It was confirmed when we were in Malaysia...

I had not been home for 2 days....that 2 days... he had stayed at his cousin's place...just in front of our door...till night when his dad came to pick him up home for the nite...

He had shown no emotional distress at all.... acting lke a grown up when my beloved explained to him the situatin at hand... as usual..keeping whatever he felt and thought of to himself..

After his sister was discharged from the hospital.....He tried to ran away from me.... Feeding him his dinner was terrifying... homework time... he wanted my attention... i was unable to make him finish his homework on his own (w had visitors visiting his sis)....him wanting loads of attention from me... yet... running away from me......

After alost two hours.. i finally managed to sweet talk him.. n he did his homewrk while sitting on my laps.... finally surrendering his missing me physically... and finally him finding peace to finish his homework....

Looking back... in the future.... it will be very difficult for people to understand him... to understand his moods... he is not comfortabe telling his inner feelings....will that affect how the teachers will percieve him in the classroom?? hmmm... we will see i suppose...

Thursday, October 09, 2008

And the war actually begins...

And yes... the war has officially began....

Baddin came home for the one week bayram holiday with loads of homework... with instructions from the teacher of which pages to be done on which day... I as a mom who hates homework during holiday naturally ignored the instruction and made him do all the homework within 2 days of the holiday... so that he could spend the rest of his holiday...*on holiday*...

Before the holiday, i think it was a warm up homework i think..with his teacher bascally iving homework of one sheet consisting of 2 pages homework... now post bayram holiday..it is now 2 sheets of 4 pages homework each day... and more of course for the weekend...

I have stopped timing him... he refuses to be timed. I complied and only uses the timing system whenever necessary... But what i noticed is this.... He has finally realised that pre school is not grade one.. and that playing while doing homework...finishing homework for let say...4 lines per hour is simply isnt done... True..without the timing system we spend more time on the homework... but it is now simply him and his homework... (and me next to him of course). He is starting to take hold of his responsibilities...

Yesterday he came hom grumpy... tired i suppose from school.. he kept finding excuses to cry..even while eating dinner...homework was worst... he kept crying...*i cannot write as nice as the example!!!* As i looked..i personally thought that he was actually writing nicely... i mean for someone who was only able to not even write a straight line... he was good.. i remember hatice...his sister last year... he is writing *a* almost as good as she did... and he was crying non stop of not being able to write perfectly!!! I think this is one of the traits he inherited from the one his name was derived from... *perfection*.. hmmm... anyway... we finished the homework almost by 7.30pm yesterday (starting from 5pm)... it was a long day but at least he finished writing the *a* and the *al* following the cursive style of writing... he still cried that he couldnt write perfectly till the end.. but then.....Anyway... these were some of what he wrote yesterday... i think it is not bad at all.. what do u think??





keep up the good work baddin! You actually suprise me each day... :0)

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