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I have been sharing some of my favorite angpow pieces on an angpow collectors group in Facebook and some members have been telling me to continue sharing my memorable stories and so I thought, why not write it down, that way, our kiddos can read about it when they grow up next time, eh?

For those of you who are not familiar or never heard of the words 'Angpow' (also known as 'ang pau', 'ang pao', 'angpau'), here is a quick definition:

Angpow = Red Packet (filled with cash inside) given during festivals

So for today's angpow story, it comes from this 2 pieces of lovely angpows:

I absolutely love these angpows. Looks similar right? What's the story for them? Read on...

When I look at the angpows, I remembered following my late mum back to her hometown during school holidays. Back then, we don't have a car (I think I was about 12-13 yrs old when my late dad bought a car for my brother) so our only mode of transport back to hometown is the public bus.

From red and white colored buses to green colored Foh Hup omnibus, from no air-cond to air-conditioned buses, my late mum and I sat through countless rides almost 2 hour long each journey to and fro Puduraya to Batu Arang, Selangor.

I always sat next to the window because I love to see the view outside. Long stretches of winding roads. Nothing but greenery and houses as we head towards the hometown.

Looking at these angpows reminded me of these childhood times. What a sweet childhood memories!

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Our first kiddo officially started his 3 weeks long holiday and first day of the month I was really really busy, as I need to process claims for April and May, chasing our clients for pending payment, issue invoices, issue purchase orders, assign software licenses, on top of keeping 3 kiddos busy and prepare soup and cook for tonight's dinner.

I've still got some items pending to do : change bedsheets and iron 3 weeks worth of working clothes. Gaaaaaaaa... anyway, took a few minutes off to gently guide our 6 years old boy to do the following. I printed out this piece of paper (source from Internet) which consists of 12 yellow circles with the minutes figures inside) and 2 leaves with hour and minutes printed on it and a stem to stick the leaves on.

I told our 6 years old boy to cut out the shapes according to the outline and helped him to double-side the shapes onto our Ikea wall clock. Currently in his kindy, he can tell the time by the hour and half past hour. Example, 10 o'clock or half past 5. But he can't yet tell me things like the time now is 'five forty five' or 'eight fifteen'.

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

* I get to expose and teach our boy on how to tell time by the hours and minutes.

* Our boy gets to practise his paper cutting skills!

Win-win!

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Was so busy with housework and rushing some paperwork for hubby's business and at the spur of the moment, decided to get our girls to help out. I was making lunch at that time and gently instructed our 3.5 years old to help me unload the washed laundry into a basket so that I can carry out to hang and dry them on the clothesline later.

Our girl hesitated initially as she was scared of the washing machine. I told her gently that the machine is off and will not move at all, so she can just slowly pull out and drop the clothes into the basket. Easy task right? Within seconds, she gathered up her courage and began pulling the clothes out faster and faster.

Then out came our 1.5 years old girl toddling around wondering where her big sis is and she saw her unloading the clothes and decided to follow what her big sis does. So I ended up having our 2 girls helping me out in no time. Both were fighting to pull out the last few pieces of clothes, what a cute sight!

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

* I get to expose and teach our girls to help out with some housechores.

* I get to teach our girls to practise their motor skills and dexterity - to pull and dropped the clothes into the basket.

* Our girls get to build up their courage over being near household machinery (within my supervision of course!)

* Our girls get to work together as a team to accomplish a task together.

* As older girl does her task quietly, she shows a good example to her younger (and very eager to follow every movements!) sibling.

* I get to boost their sense of accomplishments for being mummy's little helper!

Win-win!

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