My daughter cried just now and when I asked why, she said she was sad because of something that was said to her. I knew it was a big thing as she was quiet for a while and sat there contemplating before bursting into tears. And this happened when I was tucking her into bed….
I went to my children’s Parent’s Evening session recently, where parents are invited to meet with their children’s teacher and discuss about their children. This has been the 6th time that I went to one of these I think, since coming to the UK. It is quite useful, and especially very important early on as…
My wife and I were watching a clip about a parliamentary session, where the politician gave a very vague statement, something like, “We do not condone bad behaviour.” My wife complained that the speaker didn’t answer the question. Of course he didn’t, he’s a politician. He gave a political statement that can be interpreted either…
A fellow Malaysian has a daughter who came over and played with my children. This girl was born in the UK and is 7 years old. When I spoke to her in Malay, she looked askance. I asked my friend whether his daughter knows Malay, to which he answered yes, and claimed she was just…
My daughter came home recently and asked whether she could join a music lesson, which costs £49 a month. I’ve seen it before and I was ready to say no, but she added that the lesson was done during class and her friend(s?) who joined it had to skip class. I was horrified! She calmed…
My 5 years old has been playing games on a laptop for a while, and she has also played a few times on a desktop connected to a monitor. On other times, I use this monitor too as an extended monitor, connected to my laptop. The setup is the laptop opened, with its screen extending…
My kids like to play this game: If you can only choose two types of gummy in your life that you can eat, what would you choose? Who would be eating only on gummies their whole life? And why would you need to choose? What put you in this saccharine situation? I was reading the…
I’m a fan of learning new things and in the same vein, re-learning things that I have learnt before. For example I’ve relearned how to drive when I came to the UK, in order to pass the driving licence test. I’ve also relearned about signalling when I move to the UK, and also learned new…
My 4 years old daughter was eating ice cream downstairs when she came running upstairs towards the toilet. As she passed me, she asked how many ice cream can she eat. “How many do you want to eat?” I asked back. “I don’t know. You are the parent. You tell me how many we can…
After dinner tonight, my son asked me the reason why Allah made us like this. “What do you mean like this?” I asked. “You know, like this,” he said and raised his arm.”You mean five fingers?” ”Yes,” he said. “Allah could have made us like a blob and like an alien, and then if we…
