I'm a full-time mummy

I like to bring our kiddos to the playground whenever situations and weather permits. One morning after dropping off our oldest kiddo at kindy, I brought our girls to the playground as usual and as our girls ran ahead leaving me behind, I noticed something on the floor. A fluffy feather! Ahhh... thank you God for this learning opportunity!

I immediately called our girls over and gently showed them the feather on my palm, careful not to let the wind blow it away. I let them touch and feel the feather and repeated gently the word 'feather' (pronounced as 'fare-duh') Now being the long-winded mum that I am, I don't just stop there. I went on to explain to our girls as simple as possible that birds have feather, it keeps them warm and comfortable.

Then I asked our older girl how about dogs? And waited for her to try to answer and gently corrected her.

I went on to teach them about furs and hairs, giving examples that dogs and cats have furs, humans like her and mummy, we have hairs.

Now why this falls into the 'Teaching & Learning Moments!'?

* I get to teach our girls about feather and its importance to a bird.

* I get to teach our girls about feather, fur and hair and how to differentiate them.

* I get to reinforce our older girl's speech, sometimes she cannot pronounce properly.

Win-win!

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For this post, I am sharing my next food recipe, Omelette with Salted Radish. I first tasted this dish a few years back and just loved it! I couldn't figure out the name of the vegetable used in the omelette (not a vege person!) and only found out this recently after asking my buddy about it. After a few rounds of checking at a nearby minimarket and some supermarkets, I bought a small packet of salted radish to attempt this dish. Ever since then, this is my to-go dish when I want to eat something egg-y and still feel like I had some vege lol.

Without further ado, here is the recipe for Omelette with Salted Radish:

I have been cutting down on doing product reviews ever since our 3rd kiddo came along in end of Sept 2013. I do still accept review pitches but only when time permits and if it is something that I can see it being useful and beneficial to our family. Also, as busy as I am with 3 kiddos, home cooking, taking care of hubby's administration site of the business and swamped up with managing my FB page and blog, I just can't say no to reviewing good books! Reading is my passion and coupled with books that are of parenting, children, family or religion or educational genre, all the more I gotta say yes!

Title: Enjoying Genesis: The Bible in Rhyme Workbook (Volume 2)
Author: Marcia Goldlist
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 13, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1499677607
Paperback: 136 pages

Description from the product page:

"Enjoying Genesis: The Bible in Rhyme Workbook uses the biblical book of Genesis as a starting point for a wide variety of activities to get the mind thinking in various directions and the student writing. This book is meant for homeschooling, youth ministries, religious schools, and anyone who is open to thinking about the Bible in different ways. The book is ideal for ages 11-15."

I originally received the 1st volume "Enjoying Genesis: The Bible in Rhyme " for my review but the thick-faced me decided to request for the volume 2 instead. Why you ask? I tried reading some rhymes to our kiddos but they don't seem to be interested - I don't know why? Too young? They are 6 years old, 3.5 years old and 1.5 years old. Too advance for my kiddos to understand?

Now why I requested to review the volume 2 despite the author gently reminding me that it is more appropriate for children of ages 11-15 is because I like the book's concept!

What concept you ask? Well, the author takes some verses from the bible, throws in some questions for discussions and creative thinking and lists some activities that you can try out.

Here is an example page from the book. What I do is I read the paragraphs and then asked the questions listed. I used the opportunity to discuss with our 6 year old boy and then hear what he had to say. It is really interesting to approach topics like blame, responsibilities, need to improve, understanding of weaknesses and strengths and much much more with our kiddos. I did however skip the questions that I feel are too advanced for him but in general, I try to go through the items listed and make it as easy to understand as possible for his age.

Here is another sample page from the book:

I love that I am able to approach more about our religion with our kiddos while at the same time being able to teach and nurture our kiddos while finding out their point of view.

You can get the book from Amazon.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with a PDF copy of the book in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous book reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My Book Reviews"