New game

Actually mother did not invent this game. This game has been printed in one of his Chinese nursery rhythm book. The book contains some activities beside teaching the young kid to read the simple Chinese nursery rhythm. He likes the game very much and he told his mother that he knows how to read the word hanging on the apple tree. At first he still cannot read all the 8 words but he took the initiative to ask mother to teach him the words. Surprisingly he memorized them very fast and now he knows all the words. He told mother he wants to play the game so mother enlarged the apple tree by drawing on one of recycled poster and pasted it on the wall.

He was happy to see that and he tore down the words from the tree and read aloud to us. He said that one word scores 10 point and in his first attempt he only cannot read one word.

Sweet action

Everyday when we bring him to the kindergarten, he will wave good bye and kiss us before we leave the kindergarten. Sometime we forgot this step and he will run all the the way out from his classroom to stop us in order to say goodbye and kiss us. So sweet the action.

We don't know whether other kids have done the same thing or not. However, whenever his does this action to us, his classmates will look shock and stare at his actions.....

Bribed him

Yesterday was the final of the 无敌状元 competition. Daddy asked him whether he wants the "Besta" digital dictionary or not? He wants it. Daddy told him that he will entitle for one if he gets Number 1 again in the next exam. Mother said daddy tried to bribe the kid....

Follow one by one

Recently Ethan was hooked on the Android 'Fish food game" ever since daddy introduced to him. Ever night after his dinner time, he will request to play the fish game. But hold on! Not so fast as he haven't finish his homework yet . Today he woke up at 6 evening and we went out for dinner so he did not manage to do it before dinner time. Mother told him that he should finished his own responsibility then he only get to play it.

Below are our conversation:-
Mother : You have to finish the homework first. Follow one by one (一个接一个)
Ethan response: Can I finish two by two so can get to play it fast?
Mother asked: How to finish two by two?
He just laughed and followed mother to the room to finish his homework while mother went for her bath.

After he had finished the homework, he immediately walked down and asked for his favorite game. Mother went up to the room to check on his homework, yup he really finished it and kept all the books, pencil box and color pencil into his school bag.

His homework

Mother wants him to have the habit of "今日事今日毕" on his homework no matter whether it is Friday or holiday in the next day. So far so good even though he will bargain with mother to do it later especially when come to writing the Chinese character. He will bargain with mother that after nap time then he will continue to write it. Seeing that he wrote in snail mode and totally loss of concentration then it is better to let him rest.

What mother is pleased is that he really kept his promise and maintained his self discipline. Mainly because he will inform his mother that he wants to finish his homework even though mother wants to bring him out from the room after he wakes up. He will finish all his homework then only walk out with mother. So shame on mother.

Video capture

Every night Ethan will request to view back the photo or the video that we have taken since he was born. When he was born we actually did take a lot of video but gradually reduced it. So we promised him to take his video so in future he can view it back.

Today itself mother already captured two videos of him but unfortunately the SD memory card does not have enough disc space.

Improvement

After half month's of special note for Ethan to learn Chinese words, mother has seen some improvement with him. He showed the keen interest of trying to read the Chinese sentences from the book. Mother was glad that this method did work on him and he was happy to learn it everyday. He even requested the special note from mother if mother forgets to provide to him. With this mother cannot be lazy any more.

Since this method can work so mother is thinking of providing him the special note on BM and English.