I'm a full-time mummy

I just want to share this and see what you think. I do think most of these traits are applicable to our 3 kiddos.

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Few weeks ago, I bought a book on "Bugs: A Pop-up Journey into the World of Insects, Spiders and Creepy-crawlies" and our 2 older kiddos seem very interested with this book. Maybe because there are pop-ups insects and creepy-crawlies in the book hehehe...

Anyway, the reason for my post today is to share with you guys something we learned from this book - Bombardier Beetle

Sometimes, after reading to our kiddos from the book, I like to show them YouTube videos on how the subject looks like in real-life, how it moves, what sound it makes etc. So naturally, after explaining to our kiddos what is a Bombardier Beetle, I searched for a nice educational video of it on YouTube. You can watch the video here. Our kiddos watched it few times, very intrigued with the beetle and I explained to them again and again, how the beetle protect and defends itself from its enemies.

Btw, if you are interested to get this book, you can get it with free worldwide shipping from The Book Depository or from Amazon website.

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One of the public figures I followed on FB posted this in late May 2015. He shared a story which was told by a fan on his page.

 I commented the following on the thread:

Start educating from home. Don't leave to teachers or other people to teach your child.

As Asians, we tend to be very conservative and matters pertaining to sex, body parts and relationships tend to be very hush-hush as if it is very embarrassing and shameful to even mention it.

If you have a child, once they can start to understand your instructions, teach them the correct naming of their body part. Penis (or zakar in Malay) is a penis, don't call it with any other nicknames just because you are shy to say it. No cuckoo birds, no whatever nonsense words. Labia, vagina, breasts, all these words teach your child. Don't replace with funny weird nicknames.

Teach them to know which body parts are strictly no-no for anyone else to touch or see.

Teach them no such thing as keeping good secrets from your parents.

Talk to them often, do not brush them off when they want to tell you anything. To a child, everything is a big thing, if you brush them off or ignore them, they will not want to approach you for anything in future.

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