Mama: It’s not good to drink a lot of cola.
Xuanie: Just drink a little bit
Mama: Yes, just a little is okay.
Xuanie: But if we add lots of water, we can drink a lot of cola.
Told this to the dad, and he laughs, saying what a little “idiot” our son is.
But this is similar to how kids under/around 3 years of age believes that a pizza cut into 10 pieces means more pizza to eat than one cut into just 5 pieces. Piagetian theories about conservation.
Xuanie watched Ratatouille, the Disney cartoon. At the scene when Remy the rat is looking out to a scene with the Eiffel Tower and the lights of Paris, Xuanie exclaims that “It’s beautiful (好漂亮)!” Then he told he me wanted to go there, that I should bring him there.
A couple of weeks later, he chanced upon a guidebook of the London Eye that we have in the house, and he saw sights of London beyond the Thames. Again, he said “It’s beautiful!” and that I should bring him there. He said that scene is like that one in Ratatouille.
So I asked him which one he prefers, and he said, “London.”
Xuanie 想妈妈. That’s what Xuanie says to me every time I pick him up from nursery school. How sweet, down to my heart. I miss Xuanie too, every second that he’s away from me and that’s true.
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Saw this quote on a Facebook friend’s status a while ago. There are many different sources that this quote have been attributed to. Who said it first is not so important, at least not for me.
I don’t dare to count myself as having much success by most standards. I got some things I wanted (like traveling to so many places that many new places simply cease to impress me anymore). As for “wanting what I get,” I think I can say I have some things in my life right now that I am deeply, deeply grateful to God for.
Xuanie is definitely a big portion of that part of my life. When I look at him, when I watch him, when I interact with him . . . my heart is just filled with gratitude that God granted me such a BIG little one as a present. Right from the first hours since he was born, I am totally in love and gratitude.
I hope this bit of information will be a source of strength for Xuanie, sometime in the future. For he is loved, and cherished. And he brings much happiness to mama.
Xuanie has absolutely no understanding that sounds can be orthographically represented. So, while he’s able to count from 1 to 10, he simply fails to recognize the numbers “1, 2, 3 ….” when graphically represented. He has even learned from a Chinese program that “1″ is a “pencil,” “2″ is a “duck” etc., and could recite it, but when tested, he can’t tell “1″ from “2″ or any other numbers. Of course, he does not know his A, B, Cs.
He’s among the youngest in his class. Only 3 others, out of 29, are younger than he is. I know one of his classmates, a Chinese boy, knows his 1 to 20, and A to Z, plus all the names of the planets. In comparison, X. really seems like a retard ….
My consolation is that he seems to possess great kinetic intelligence. He’s able to tackle all the difficult monkey bars etc that boys of his age can’t handle.
B. told me to take it easy, and yes, I know that knowing numbers and alphabets are not indicative of future success in anything. I’m just worried that he simply has a lazy streak like his mom, who didn’t care to learn her A, B, Cs till she was 7, and the only thing she remembered from kindergarten is a song that she now sings for her son.
