The last entry for this blog is dated about a year ago and today, in the midst of rushing for the dateline, I had the cheek to upload an entry drafted about the same time; and it has been waiting to be posted since then. And I finally did, later this evening before I left the office.
So many events took place during my absence (in the blogging world) and I don’t plan to put everything in here. Perhaps I just pick some of the more memorable ones and one of them is my internal battle whether to send Iris to school before the end of this year. It happens 3 months back (about in February 2011).
The pressure originated from my mom who couldn’t stop comparing Iris’ progress with the other kids (in Miri) who are a few months my girl’s junior. Occasionally over the phone she will ask me if I planned to send Iris to school because so and so’s son is already going; or so and so’s daughter already knows how to write… And I often brushed her notion with the fact that Iris is doing well “home-schooled with Mickey Mouse”. Well, she learns a lot from the program and her command in English sometimes amazes us. Or when mom says that this or that girl can count 1-10 after going to school; I would respond “without attending school, Iris can already count 1-15 just by watching Mickey Mouse, so what is the use of school?”
My negative attitude towards school only suggests that I am not willing to let her go off yet; because I feel she is still very young and I was afraid that she will be bored with school if we sent her too early. As long as she hasn’t reach 3 years old, I’ll put the matter to rest. For now, I’ll just let her learn from Mickey, Oso and Little Einsteins.
Playhouse Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
