Sunday, July 28, 2013

Intellectual development



Friday July 20 2013

For months Taikun has been following a routine in the night before bedtime: brushing teeth, and bathing, watching Jagainukun, and storytelling on bed. In recent week after moving to the new place, thanks to a much-improved bathroom, we accumulate water in the bathtub for him to play. He was given a yellow duck as a toy.

Tonight, when skypeing with grandma around the time of 9:30pm, we proposed to him to go upstairs to have a bath. Of course, he refused, “Bo lang ga goa chitt-toh. (Nobody playing with me).”  Intrigued by his response, T proposed to him that we (both T and I) will play the yellow duck with him.

He recognized our trick, retorting in Mandarin: “Okay I will play the little yellow duck, but I don’t want to take the bath.”

T lamented that it’s getting harder to harder to trick him into obedience. 



Wednesday, July 31 2013:

[Intell. development] Now Taikun can connect connect a situation in a storytelling to his real life in order to win applause from the family. During the storytelling of ho-go-bo (Tiger Aunt) by A, Taikun reacted in Mandarin: I’d like to kick/ get ho-go-bo out. Papa and mama then will be happy.  
 

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