Vehicle Recognition and Basic Puzzle
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Flash Card Stimulation
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Introduction of One and All Concept
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What we need to do :
I Look, I See and I Comment
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The session went well and Amirul was showing great improvement from the last pre-therapy session. From 8 words to under 100 words — but still have to improve on the pronunciation if we look at his age.He is now able to recognise many nouns mostly on vehicles and basic human parts and anatomy. The puzzle test, colour recognition, and other important test were evaluated during 2-hour session. Amirul was inconsistent with the reception and the expression — that what the doctor told me.
Let move on to the details of the session:
FIRST TEST
First thing Amirul had to do was to arrange the block accordingly, where there were four color of blocks — the doctor said that I can also introduce colors to him when playing this game. Then, Amirul learned about one and all. First, Amirul was asked to take one block. Then, the doctor asked Amirul to take all of them, The objective was to differentiate between one and all. For the first time, Amirul were having difficulty to interpret what is ‘all’. I had to become role model and took all block from the doctor’s hand, just to make understand what is ‘all’.
Amirul learnt one and all concept video
FLASH CARDS
The doctor took out a deck of flash cards and showed to Amirul. She asked Amirul to express what he saw on the cards. Turned out Amirul able to recognise most of the item, but sadly can’t say it. I give you one example — when the doctor showed the comb, he unable to speak but he acted like there’s an invisible comb and stroke his hair.
The doctor concluded that he recognised items but fail to express using words.
Watch Amirul Flash card Stimulation video here.
I LOOK. I SEE. I COMMENT
The communication between parent and the children is important — that was the doctor mentioned to me. So, the method that I have to do is to set a toy in front of him. Look and see what he will be doing and comment upon it. Don’t ask questions!! Just comment like a commentator has been doing — for all his life — during Manchester vs Chelsea football match.
I have to practice to become a natural commentator and not feeling awkward when I have to comment on everything what my son has been doing.
Video for I look, I see and I comment
VEHICLE RECOGNITION & BASIC PUZZZLE
Amirul passed this test. He recognize all but the ship. As usual, he unable say it but doing very well mocking the sound of train, car, plane, and so on.
Amirul was given a puzzle for him to arrange it. He was doing very well and he solve it by himself while the doctor and I were having a conversation on how to tackle the speech delay problems.
Amirul learnt vehicles and basic puzzle here
WHAT WE NEED TO DO
[1] Playtime Recordings.
The doctor said it would be excellent if I had a camera to record for Amirul learning session. Fortunately, my wife has a camera and she will not hesitate to lend his camera for the sake of our son.
[2]Practice, practice, practice.
If you want to expert at something, you have to practice. Communication is a skill and I need to practice the recommended method when communicate with my children.
[Look into the problems]
The doctor evaluated based on the information I gave to her and reviewed that we have a few problems to tackle:
[1] The lack of the routine establishment and instructions
We have routine. If there’s a waste; you should put it into the dustbin, If you finish drinking milk; put it into the sink, finish watching cartoon; closed the TV. But we treat like he was 2 years old. He should’ve been introduced to more routine such as dirty cloth; laundry bag and towel; dry it well. Consistency and Discipline are the two things we should concern about.
[2] Coding Language
The doctor said she disagreed with introducing two language in everyday life. Malay and English word against one item is so not practical and the children cannot coupe with it. He will have problem, like my son, to interpret an item because he have conflict with the coding — which one is right, Malays or English? — in his head.
[3] Failure to practice more basic nouns.
What i realized was i failed to say out loud the basic and simple nouns such as teeth, mouth, ear, and other basic human anatomy. It’s not that amirul failed to recognize them. He knows it very well. We successfully introduced and amirul recognize them. What amirul failed was to say it out loud — the pronounciations. I felt like a punch in the air when amirul unable to say anything when the doctor show the eyes to him. He knows eyes but don’t know how to say it. I felt frustrated — All this time, I was concerned about tree, cat, dog, car, and all, but overlooked with nearer and more basic things like eyes, ears, mouth and nose.
Introducing the new area – Adverbs and Adjectives
It is the right time to introduce both at the age of three. The doctor advised that I can introduce it during play time. It’s better to have a play skill for toddler as one of the essential activities.
The basic Adverbs and Adjectives
Conclusion.
Overall, the doctor advised that — based on the observation — Amirul’s speech delay is mild. It’s not so serious. It can be solved by doing more interactive communication between my son and both of us. Another problems that we haven’t tackle — said the doctor — were [1] the lack of the routine establishment and instructions [2] Coding language, that i have to stick with one language.
For The next session, she asked me to prepare the recorded video of the play time. She wanted to evaluate on how I interacted with Amirul.
How come hitting your child give you a good feeling toward the aspect of discipline and structure?
Ruth Liew wrote;
Physical abuse will cause your child to suffer from low self-esteem and become fearful of those who around him. There is no learning in discipline for the child in physical abuse. The one who abuses the child only wants the child to submit to his will. He does not acknowledge the child as a person. He only makes up an excuse for his outrageous act as teaching the child discipline.
The concerned mother was worried about the father constantly hit his son without any good reason. The only reason she got was he wanted to teach him a lesson — with pinch and slap.
First off, what is wrong with him? May be slapping and pinching is the new commodity for communicating with you son.
I’m a cold-hearted father when it comes to discipline: I pinch my son and my daughter; I also yelled at them with high voice of thunder when they do something that terribly wrong or refuse to follow instruction. But it is so surprising that this father hit his son out of nothing like Touch N Go card.
I hope I will not be like this man.
[ Abusive Father via TheStar]
It true that Ipad really good education tool for Amirul. Everyday from Monday to Friday, we would have 1hour of homeschooling session. Between 9 -10pm, we will spend time with Amirul and doing activities together. (Widad sudah tido time tue) Since both of us are working parent, we really need to fully utilized the 1 hour session with activities but at the same time strengthen our bonding with kids. Not limited to reading and coloring activities, there are plenty of preschooler activities that we do it together like; marble painting, clay arts, play dough, plays puppets . Besides Amirul’s speech therapy activities, we also let him play Ipad educational apps. Amongst his fave are eliasMatch, Coloring, funny stickers,dino puzzle HD, etc
Below is the video Amirul learn and play eliasMatch
Why eliasMatch is good for preschooler.??
Many people, including me, would be easily fall into the cyber addiction because the internet is so awesome.
The most awesome benefit is that the internet is about connecting you with people around the globe. Then, there are unlimited source of information; appropriate and inappropriate ones. And then came along — internet gaming and social networking, making the real world dull and gray.
And that things become an addiction when you overuse it with excessive amount of time. You feel like connecting with virtual cloud of PCs is much more appealling than connecting with real people
“Cyber addicts will start withdrawing emotionally from their families. Their minds are on their online relationships instead,” Malaysian Psychiatric Association president Dr Abdul Kadir Abu Bakar.
“Simple things like shopping together, a walk in the park and daily family time at night plays a big role in bonding family relationships,” he said, adding that this issue affected children, too.
Ok. I admit it. I guess like I’m about one step closer to the cyber addiction, because I can sit and sink into my chair and surfing the internet 8 hours long.
When my internet was disconnected for two weeks, I hardly breathe and only my wife knows how panic I was, like in the middle of a war.
May be going to zoo this weekend would be a good start to exit the addiction.
[Strong ties curb cyber addiction via TheStar]
Although I’m wearing hijab, my hair health and beauty is still in my concerns. After analyzing which type of hair do I have, it fall under DRY HAIR category. Yes I have to admit that my hair is dry, coarse, brittle, split and frizz at the end of hairs, changing new shampoo habit, hair loss, and it become worse after I went to swimming class every weekend. Luckily I do have no dandruff problem or its a package of damaged hair and really need to treat immediately. Its like chronic disease. Can be save by a series of consistent treatments.huhu
Therefore, I asked few friends regarding tips on making my hair soft and silky besides having a half day of hair treatment at salon. Spending half day at salon to treat my hair is quite impossible with two kids who need my attentions. Homemade recipes is most preferred
Among THEIR answers:
- Use daun pandan
- Using lime
- Use mayonnaise (tip from Fasha Sandha)
- Use of tamarind (asam jawa; tip from mom-in-law)
- Do cream bath treatment
- Use hair conditioner after shampoo
tips shared from friends
Among those tips, I choose to use mayonnaise to treat my dry hair. All you need to do just smear 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise all over the hair. Leave for about 20-30 minutes. Cover your hair shower cap and rinse. or you can get other tips from below website for homemade conditioner
Website for homemade conditioner for dry hair treatments:
Note: The smell of mayonnaise is a little out of sorts, still the result was good even though only the first attempt (I’ve tried and its true, my hair soft only for first attempt, I LIKE!!!) Do at least twice a week to see the best result. If you have any tips to soften the hair, kindly drop in comment box.
Its good to have homemade recipes, because you can do it at home while juggling with your kids and home chaos.
photo by: Chrissam42
Okay, this is really weird:
While 72.2 percent of parents rated academic performance as “extremely important”, only 10.9 percent cited “health condition” as “extremely important” according to a survey released Sunday.
Are this article telling that your children should strive hard on SPM exam, when your children have some critical healthy problems like cancer or pulmonary lung disease? Alhamdulillah because this is not happening in Malaysia. Hong Kong moms are really have to change their mindset because good grade is not No.1. Good grade is not everything; your children is everything. Healthy children leads to healthy grades.
To me, I always concern about the children’s health first. It’s my responsibility as a parent to make sure my children stay that way.
[Hong Kong Parents Value Grade Over Health via Yahoo! News]
After short but meaningful explanation about picky eater from Dr Azam, Dietation Nor Lizawati Che Lah, explain to us about good and bad foods to chidlren.
Children more attractive to sugary foods like chocolates, junk foods, fast foods like KFC, Mc Donalds and processed foods like burger, sausages etc. Those foods actually bad foods for them. Besides high in sugar and salt, they also consists of MSG (mono sodium glutamate) to enhance the foods tastes.This MSG can cause obesity and hyperactivity in children.
Therefore, the good foods for children are :
Thus, it is highly recommended for parent to give home cooked meals to their children. Beside they know what they eat, the cleanliness also guarantee.
Read on ‘How to prepare home cooked’ tips from Gourmet Goo co-owner Heidi Shamsuddin.
Home cooked is always the Best for family. However, its quite difficult to working moms but its not impossible. Gourmet Goo co-owner Heidi Shamsuddin share tips with the forum participants how she managed to prepare home cooked to her family. Besides healthy and guarantee less salty and sweet, preparing meals also can create great bonding with the children.
How to prepare home cooked by working moms :
Even tho an argument between Cik Norlizawati and Heidi regard the nutrition value of the foods, still this tips is applicable and practicable for working moms who have no maid to help them to prepare the meals for family. Its good to loss few nutritional value then additional preservative value in foods.
Yeay, Happy Friday. Welcome Saturday.. What you plan for weekend?? MINE….
Pool time
Wrestling with Abg Amirul 
Picky Eater is always a BIG issue to parent, including us. Amirul is one of the picky eater. However, his current eating habit really cause us go crazy. We want him to eat with peace, but everytime we ask him to eat we need to shout at him, we will scold me. It’s like a war to us. When Parenthots organized ‘How to get your children eat healthy‘ forum, I immediately registered hoping that we can get advices from the expert regarding picky eater
According to Dr Azam, paediatrician from Hospital Pantai :
The common causes of picky eater are:
Signs of the need of intervention in picky eaters:
Tips from Dr Azam how to deal with pciky eater :
Continue to Good foods and bad foods advices from Dietitian, Nor Lizawati Che Lah
Indonesian foods sometimes can be accepted to my throat. Besides Bakso and bolen pisang, I love to eat Batagor. Batagor is a snack originated from West Java;Bandung. Its made from tofu filled with meatball serve with peanut sauce, sweet soy sauce and sprinkled with lime juice. Makan time dia panas2,, fuhh mmg sedap
Note : Don’t ask me how to do it, I just enjoy the Batagor and burppp.. Alhamdulillah kenyang.. huhuh. get the recipe here
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