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I came across this article which I must definitely share with you guys as I'm very interested to know your thoughts on this.

For your convenience, I have copied the excerpts from the article here:

"The meningitis B vaccine will be introduced to the routine childhood vaccination programme in Scotland from 1 September, it has been announced.

 Scotland is now one of the few nations in the world to offer the vaccination to all infants. The vaccination will be given in three doses at two months, four months and a year. Babies aged two months when the vaccine is introduced will be eligible.

 Meningitis B is a bacterial infection that particularly affects children under the age of one. It commonly affects children under five years of age, and is also common among teenagers aged 15 to 19.

Symptoms include a high fever with cold hands and feet, confusion, vomiting and headaches.

Most children will make a full recovery with early diagnosis and antibiotic treatment, although it is fatal in one in 10 cases. About one in four of those who survive is left with long-term problems such as amputation, deafness, epilepsy and learning difficulties."

Here's another article on Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib):

"Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a bacterium that can cause a number of serious illnesses, especially in young children.

 Of the small number of cases that do occur nowadays, most affect adults with long-term (chronic) underlying medical conditions, rather than young children.

 Meningitis is the most severe illness caused by Hib and, even with treatment, one in every 20 children with Hib meningitis will die. Of those who do survive, many will have long-term problems such as hearing loss, seizures and learning disabilities."

In Malaysia, we have this jab under our vaccination schedule (under Hib dos 1, 2 and 3 respectively at month 2, month 3 and month 5). For those of you who are curious on other countries' immunization schedule, I actually did a compilation on Comparison of Immunization Schedules of other countries (just for knowledge purposes).

Do share your thoughts on this!

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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 and it was bright and sunny in the morning so the place was just nice and bright and the playground equipments are dry enough to be played with.

Our girls stomped around and at one point, our 2nd kiddo called out for me and pointed at her discovery. A very tiny butterfly!

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

* I get to teach our girls about butterfly and its' body parts (antennae, body, legs, wings).

* I get to teach our girls to be gentle with other creatures.

* I get to test our girl on her understanding and knowledge on how butterfly moves.

Win-win!

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I love to look for things that I can use as teaching tools for our kiddos. Simple, bulk quantity and inexpensive preferably. I bought this bunch of colored ice cream sticks online for very good deal, less than USD2 (about RM7) for 50 sticks. I bought 150 sticks since I have 3 kiddos and the amount is just nice for now.

Now I tried not to make it too obvious that I want to teach them stuff, so I started with easy peasy games like, how many sticks am I holding, what color sticks are you holding, how do you make triangle or other shapes with the sticks on your hand and so on.

When I noticed our kiddos start to lose attention, I changed the game to other things. I say 'Here's all the sticks, go crazy and make me something!' At first they don't know where to start. So I gave them some ideas on what to make.

Rocket! And our 6 years old boy proceeded to make a rocket from the sticks on the floor, complete with launchpad, words out of his mouth. I was wondering where he hears the word 'launchpad' from but oh well, kids, very smart these days! Our 3.5 years old girl also made a rocket of her own.

Then they continued making more stuff, robot by our 6 years old boy, flowers from our 3.5 years old girl and an angry looking dinosaur which escaped from its cage, done by our 6 years old boy (we watched Jurassic World recently)

Will share more in near future if possible ;)

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