This is a letter mummy has written to Miss Ng today :-
Sweet stuff is likely a stimulant for Aston's activeness.
We are quite eager to slowly slowly stop and eventually no sweets for him. He is always eating sweets now. Hardly any chocolates unless there are children parties he attended.
Based on our previous discussions with you, we thot over NO NO sweets for Aston.
This is his schedule of eating sweets...
Every Sat phonics class - given by Teacher Graham. abt one sweet
Every Sun grandma place - he buy from mama shop. abt two sweets
Evey Month hair cut - at least four sweets.
Total he eats around 20 sweets per mth.
Then later we analyse in our mind, .somehow we decided that we cannot impose or NO need to enforce NO NO sweets rule on him...because 20 sweets one month is not quite alot for him...
If we check, everyday he is eating things & there is bound to be sweet contents. He is also drinking 500ml of chysanthemum tea (one can) on every sat morning breakfast)
So we are actually dealing directly on the SWEETS.
I will do my part on the mama shop and the haircut on NO NO sweets plan , I shld say realistically we can acheive 50% success on this...
My problem is here : -
How do I request Teacher Graham to stop giving him sweets ? I find it so difficult to make this request becos it'll be very difficult for him and unfair he has to specially treat my son and rest of students suffered ?
Monday, March 31, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
I know I'm not the best mom to give you any advice because my kids get candies from me.
But I always believe everything in moderation, as my mom practised it during my childhood days.
Actually, I don't think Aston has that much sugar - my kids probably have more! Maybe the reason for hyperactivity is related with some other things. E.g. lack of sleep can also cause a kid to be over-stimulated. Or you can mentally challenge him with some seatwork everyday for 30 minutes.
On rewards: You can definitely try other things. E.g. a healthy drink like Yakult, or playground time or TV time, or reading a favourite book after a haircut. Or perhaps an activity. I don't know what works best for Aston. You certainly know his whims and fancies better.
Thanks Thanks Cindy. I really appreciate your good advices !
Prisline, seems like we have a lot in common esp dealing with sweets, misbehaviour etc from our five-year-olds.
For us, sweets and misbehavior have a co-relation. JK turns aggressive when he perceives that his sweet will be taken away from him. I hate it when people esp relatives, neighbours, teachers, even sch bus aunty etc offer him sweets but since they are actually trying to be nice to him, I can't tell them we have a "minimum-sweet policy" at home. Frankly, I've never bought sweets for him but my fridge has no lack of supplies from the above donors. Still, I am slowly trying to entice him with nuts, vitamin pills etc instead.
Post a Comment