The Last Dumpling

I went to the book fair yesterday and I was showing HL this book about parenting and how to communicate with your children. There were even comic book illustrations setting up scenarios about dealing with kids in different situations. HL looked through the book and decided not to buy it because she said there were too many words. Before I put the book down I read a couple of the comic strips and looked through some of the chapters.

At lunch time, Elwood was having a bit of a sulk because he wanted to eat the last dumpling but his father asked him to ask everyone else to see if they wanted it. He refused. Then the dumpling was just sitting there until we finally asked to Elwood to eat it. He said he didn't want it but we knew that he did and he was just being difficult. So, I said HL with my newly acquired knowledge from reading the parenting book. We shouldn't tell him do to something and we have to give him options. There was other food on the table and we asked Elwood which one he wanted to eat. Instantly he said he wanted to eat the dumpling. How good is that! Hopefully this will also work with my P3 class if my students don't want to do any writing. I'm giving them the option of writing in class or doing it for homework. Lately I've been bribing them stickers.


I bought a book for The V for leisurely reading and for myself I bought the mellifluous book of hard words. I sometimes suffer from kinetosis.