Survival

Deon,

You take lessons on different activities, ie piano, swimming, chinese and etc..... Of all these activities, you like piano the least. I remember there was one time when your mommy was away after you moved to the Mansion. The piano was still at 48th. Auntie Joyce had to drive you back to 48th everyday to practice. You got very cranky that day. You insisted that you only want to practice much less time than scheduled. Auntie Joyce negotiated with you and you didn't take any suggestions. You cried so loud when Auntie Joyce called me and told me about you. You finally came to term to practice. Auntie Joyce had a conversation with you after and suggested you to discuss with mommy if you don't like piano this much.

Soooo, what happened next???? After your mommy came back, you didn't tell her directly that you didn't like piano. Instead, you asked her how piano is related to survival since she always told you stuff you learn now is for your future survival. Your mommy was a little surprised by the way you asked. She told you piano was the foundation for anything you want to do in music in the future. You seemed to accept her explanation and didn't ask about the survival part anymore.

When I heard it, I was amazed how smart you were to ask your question so diplomatically. Deon, you are being nurtured so well. I am sure you will become very successful in whatever you do in the future.

Love you,

Kaima

I will not lie again!

Deon,

You have been a very honest kid.  Honesty is your mommy's highest value.  She's taught you to be honest and don't lie.  She always says, "Lie ruins the trust between people."  

You're still in your Spring Break.  You don't have a lot of work to do.  Your mommy has put a limit of 30 minutes each time when you playing video games.  You've been attaining to this no problem.  Last night, your mommy went to class after dinner until about 10pm.  When she asked you how long you played.  You said 20 minutes.  You know what?  The reason she asked is because she could tell from your face that you played more than 30 minutes.  You told her you only played 20 min.  She trusted you she said.  She only wanted to check the video cameras just for the record that you indeed only played 20 min.  By that time, you said, "fine, I lied."  The consequence of this lie was to write "I will not lie again" a thousand times.

Today when I went to your house, your mommy told me about this and said you were upstairs writing.  Well, you're not the only.  Jody and Kelvin had done the 1000 times as well when they were young.  They even had to write all of the Family Values that your mommy had set out.  You, at some point, are lucky to just write the one sentence.  Lol!

By dinner time, you finished 250 with 750 to complete.  Your mommy didn't give you a deadline of when to complete.  The only condition was you couldn't watch TV or play anymore video games before you finish writing.  Kelvin, your dearest brother, said if you ate the corn and the chestnut from the dinner dishes, then that would offset 100 times.  From there, you started to negotiate with mommy.  By the time dinner was done, you managed to offset about 300 times.

You came to your mommy's office after dinner and negotiated again!  The deal was finally sealed that you'd allowed your mommy to bite both side of your butt to offset 175 times.    Then you asked Jody to do same to offset 50.  At the end, you only had 250 times left to write.  You completed them tonight.  Now, you could watch TV.  

I'm sure this experience has given you a valuable lesson of not to lie anymore.  :)))

By the way, today is your birthday.  Happy Birthday Deon!  It's such a meaningful day to learn your lesson.

Re-do Human

Re-do Human" is a word your mommy always used when she felt she hadn't been productive. She'd "re-do human" to catch up on her work, work extra harder to make up for the time that she was not productive. She's used this for a long time. She also had successfully taught you to use this word as well. Anytime she noticed you haven't been responsible or productive, you would voluntarily said that you'd "Re-do Human".

It's your 2-week Spring Break since March 27. Your mom sent me a message today about this topic. I've cut and paste it here, thought it'd be cute to blog it.

------Original Message------
From: Amy (rogers)
To: Pandora (BB)
ReplyTo: Amy (rogers)
Subject: de
Sent: Apr 5, 2010 12:52 PM

He got in major trouble today for lack of responsiblity. He agreed he too focus on spending time in bsmt with Kel so Now re-doing human in his room.

------Original Message------
From: Pandora (BB)
To: Amy Lee (BB)
ReplyTo: Pandora (BB)
Subject: Re: de
Sent: Apr 5, 2010 1:14 PM

What happened?

------Original Message------
From: Amy (rogers)
To: Pandora (BB)
ReplyTo: Amy (rogers)
Subject: Re: de
Sent: Apr 5, 2010 1:16 PM

I guess he's been "Heart shattered" from no school and I am not home. His room is a mess and he sudenly feels he only needs to clean only the areas I asked him to only instead of the whole room. He hasn't been doing nightly reading. He missed 4 days of chinese writing over the last 10 days.

------Original Message------
From: Pandora (BB)
To: Amy Lee (BB)
ReplyTo: Pandora (BB)
Subject: Re: de
Sent: Apr 5, 2010 1:18 PM

I c.....what does the "redo human" activities include?? Does he have to catch up on the reading and chinese that he didn't do?

-----Original Message-----
From: amylee@rogers.blackberry.net
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:20:51
To: Pandora (BB)<pandora.ng@rogers.blackberry.net>
Subject: Re: de

Hahaha. So far re-do human is just includes making his room nakely clean. He got 3 garbage bags of garbage out of his room so imagine that!! Then he vacuum after it's tidy.

But the gulity look on his face is funny. Like he agreed he was at fault kind of look

-----Original Message-----
From: pandora.ng@rogers.blackberry.net
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:23:14
To: Amy (rogers)<amylee@rogers.blackberry.net>
Subject: Re: de

3 garbage bags???? Could this be an actual size of 1 garbage bag??? Knowing he's got ur blood in the packing dept?? Haha??

-----Original Message-----

From: amylee@rogers.blackberry.net
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:24:50
To: Pandora (BB)<pandora.ng@rogers.blackberry.net>
Subject: Re: de

Hahaha. No, the small grocery bags size only

9th Birthday Party

Hey Deon,

You're turning 9 this Wed (April 7). We decided to have your birthday party today (Sunday April 4). Unlike the years before, you wanted to have your birthday party at home instead of at the Crash Crawley's. You moved into this new house last year. You liked this house a lot. It's a mansion. You have your own games room. You decided to invite your friends over instead of having your birthday party anywhere else.

I hired a magician for a performance at the birthday party. You, as the host, had set up a few board games at different stations.

Your guests started to come around 3. You showed them the games and started playing with them. When the magician came, you invited them to the Karaoke Room to watch the performance. You all seemed to enjoy it very much. We had pizza and your ice cream birthday cake before the party ended.

You called to say Thank You for arranging the party. That was very sweet of you. I hope to organize your many birthday parties down the road....... :)