Homeschool Shanghai

Paul was very excited today. His little piggy bank has finally gotten more than 10rmb. Yes! This means that he has accumulated more than 100 pieces of very good work. He made appointment with me to go shopping today to spend his hard-earned money. We talked about how the money should be spent. Paul decided [...]

I’ve started giving free tuition to Xiaobai’s (my maid) children while they are here for holiday. The family is too poor to engage a tutor. The children had just transferred to a school that teaches English in their province near their grandparents (Xiaobai’s in-laws) just after Chinese New Year in February. Both did not start [...]

We brought Paul and John for their vaccination today at the Fudan Children’s Hospital For Foreigners. The staffs there understands some English – that why we go there despite the long journey and expensive fees – our kids’ medical record books from Singapore are all written in English. Paul was pretty brave today. He promised [...]

It had been so stressful trying to register Paul. Although I am homeschooling here, Singapore MOE advised that I register Paul in a school in Singapore for a place to sit for PSLE at least. We wanted a good “normal” school, not pretigious ones. Pity we couldn’t register Paul in one near our house. We [...]

We had been arranging to go Jinjiang for weeks. We finally decided that we should go on Monday, but we didn’t tell the kids about it. If it should rain (the weather forecast said it would thunderstorm in some areas,) the kids would be disappointed and we’ll have or hands full with the two whining [...]

Paul really had phobia with traditional school. I asked him twice this month whether he would like to attend school, since the school that Michael is in offers now free schooling for staff’s children. His reaction was a strong “NO”. I probed for the reason, and he told me that he feels that he doesn’t have [...]

It has been a very busy month. Stressed with lots of administration both at home and from school. Paul’s schedule needed a review. The weather’s been unstable too, so I was down with heatiness – new mouth ulcers keep coming after the old ones are healed. I have to force myself to take Vit B. [...]