Does Flinstone Qualify for Macbook?

Many many ages ago Mac caught my eyes with it's light weight, less(or not at all) prone to virus attack, fast boot up and many other features. Having certain level of fear, i ended up with Acer, going for the lightweight version as well. But alas, i have to accommodate with smaller screen which was fine for me. I was ever so intimidated that i dared not upgrade to Windows 8 and still maintained with XP, fearing that some of my programs may ended incompatible. That's how pathetic i have to be. So keeping myself as dinosaur as i can be seemed to be the safest option. An old friend started asking me where is my Flinstone family ---- referring to my dinosaur technology with no wireless home environment. It was a good topic to start off with about keeping radiation as low as possible. It was even a better topic for old friends to tease me because only old friends will tease without second thoughts. That reminded of this: “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Of knowing owns body and eating

Jo Von was all the while the more "spiritual" one.
When i was pregnant with her, i started to crave for pineapple which i have never like to take a single bite all through my life.
During that time too, i get nausea with cheese and dairy products which i has been craving for the past 30 years. From then on, i cut it out.
She was like always sure of what she can eat and how much to eat. She disliked mushroom but i always cut them in smaller bites and stuff in her meal. Sometimes she realized, sometimes no.
Few weeks ago i fried mee hoon with some mushroom. She took it for lunch but she got feverish during evening time and vomited. Sprout and vege and mee hoon seemed to have digested well and didnt came out, but not mushroom. Every single piece of the mushroom was out....in the complete cut pieces.

Told myself: i wont force her to take the food that her body cant take anymore. Perhaps i do not know well enough about her body as well as she is.

Observing and contemplating living creatures - Crawling down with compassion

We saw a big snail crawling down the wall.
Jo Ee, "will it fall?"
Jo Von, "i wont la, it has legs to suck on the wall."
Jo Ee, "What happen if we touch it?"
Jo Von, "I want to touch it, but i wont touch it, coz if i touch it, it will fall. And the shell will crack."
--- I guess when a kid have more time to be spent with the nature, naturally compassion will grow and they dont have to be taught on being kind to other beings. Compassion, loving kindness are grown inertly through nature and nurture.
Still, having more time, more leisure time to contemplate moments like these is the KEY.

Improvising and making transformation at 5

I remembered i did my first scale transformation when i was doing Grade 5 theory at the age of approximately 14 yrs old. And little did i realize that i could actually improvise and make transformation on songs so that they are a few keys lower or higher. I read notes well and i could sight read, but that lacking of musical appreciation doesn't qualify myself as a music learner.
But being a homeschooler herself, Jo Von, has all the time that she could have with the piano.
She can't read any notes yet coz we have not exposed her to proper piano lesson. We did try once to send her to Miss Ho class when she was about 4 year old but she wasnt that ready and she asked to stop. We agreed and told her she could learn later when she is ready to attend the piano lesson again.
But this morning, amazingly she told us there were many ways of playing Mary Had A Little Lamb. She was actually playing the song with C major, then D major(with the F# key!!) and G major!
It surprised me on how well she had learned herself!
Homeschool works, doesnt it?

大自然的疗愈：茅草

和YJ还有两个小瓜回到离我家不到50步的小学母校的草场踢球。
除了爬树，还光着脚赛跑。
叫小柔滚一辊，她就在草地上滚了。还滚了好几圈。想起extra lesson里强调的孩子在硬的地上滚动是很好的运动。
后来玩了一个滚球比赛。
8岁的姐姐还喜欢有竞争的游戏，可5岁的小柔就还没到那阶段玩这游戏。
因为滚得不必姐姐远，所以就嘟起嘴来。
也是劝都劝不来。
她赌气坐在草地上，我陪她坐着。
随手拔起来一根茅草，告诉她小茅草喜欢跟人，喜欢黏在衣服裤子上跟我们回家，也把茅草刻意的黏在她衣服上。随着也把刚才那股气撵走。
前后不到5分钟的僵持，就这么容易降服在大自然的茅草下。^.^

大自然的疗愈：万年青

舅舅不懂说了小柔什么，弄得她和姐姐一直不高兴，姐姐中招少，一下就没事了，小柔大概是被惹得较多，就一直嘟着嘴，叫她去吃饭，也不肯理睬。
后来，我采了一叶万年青，对她唱一首barney的歌，“i love you,you love you, we are happy family,with a great big hug and a kiss from you,wont you say you love me too.送你一个love，等下你可以切菜煮mamamasak."
随即小柔的脸就笑了。怎么就这么简单呢？
比说道理还好用呢？

大自然的疗愈：绿豆

小柔柔不懂生谁的气，本来好好的，突然就哭丧着脸在发闷气。
其实换成别天，我肯定又喝她为什么发脾气了。
但今天是我们选择homeschool后的第三天。
对我而言，是让我重新学习与她有更多相处时间的机会，尤其是在早上，因为小妤上课了，就只有爸爸和我和小柔。
爸爸在忙着电脑，我在忙着准备午餐，我们似乎都有充分的不耐烦的理由。但这是一个学习的机会，不是我“骂”或“宠”的时刻。
最后我决定俯下身抱抱小柔，在她耳边轻轻告诉她，“妈咪知道你会不习惯多点在家没去幼儿园的日子，妈咪也还在学习和你多点时间一起的日子。。。来，你要不要帮我采外面熟了的绿豆？”
她点点头，脸也没那么皱了。
我走回厨房。她朝向天台，再进来时脸上只有满满的笑容，“妈咪，你看，我采了那么多绿豆！”
绿豆，都发闷气，好像很管用哦！^.^