One fine Sunday...

I was accompanying Amir watching Soccer Dog on Astro Ceria, when Joe my brother and his wife came with the kids. Amir received a belated birthday present from his cousins - something looks like Lego that will finally turn to an F1 car if I am able to get them perfectly joined (which I doubt myself.. or which will take weeks ... hahaha).

Sometimes during weekend when we siblings met, point of interests would be on travelling and the kids. We planned to fly to Sabah for our next family vacation. A place that I longed to visit. Have been to Kuching for couple of times... Hearsay - Kota Kinabalu is nicer, warmer than Kuching.. Have to be there myself to experience the truth. Or we then planned to fly to Sabah in April, just after we got our BO**S. Wow!

Then Ed (another bro of mine) came. The kids have gone to his house (just next door) to play games. I guess it must be the computer games.

We had the normal chit chat ... exchanging views and opinions of the weather (what else! everyone is talking about the weather), and of coz on the kids as well. We were actually discsussing on Oya, our niece (our late brother's daughter) who have been staying with her grandparents (obviously our parents) since she was born! She is now 17. How time flies... Then we talked about Arif another nephew of mine (Joe's eldest son) who is in standard 4.... and we went on and on talking about the kids.

Looks like Joe has found the 'formula' to inculcate the habit of reading among his sons. He has to be the 'example'. So nowadays Joe has been buying books and replace playing computer games with reading. And guess what? It works. He said the boys would read their books whenever they see their father start holding a book. How I wish I can implement that to Amir. Perhaps I am a perfectionist.. trying to get Amir to start reading when he is 3 yrs old... :)

Well what can I say. Its tough to be good parents. I remember, when I was at my younger age, my dad was very strict. Being an army himself, he trained us to be discipline. Whenever we did something wrong which was against his 'military rule' - time for 'corporal punishment'. My mum always said that 'kalau tak korang semua tak jadi 'orang'. Which I think somehow or rather is true. But that kinda treatment will not be 'accepted' in today's world. Kalau sekarang, dah dikira 'kes dera' hahahaha. Today is different. You have to use more of psychological elements to 'change' people. You have to be a 'sweet talker' to persuade people.

Well, whatever mechanism we apply, it must be for the best of our kids! May Allah bless me with all the patience to face and overcome whatever hurdles and hindrance to be a good mum to an active and talkative son Amir!.