Comments on: One Item You Need To Calibrate Everyday By 12am

By: banji

banji — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:18:46 +0000

Hamdani Amin – And Selamat Hari Raya to you too. Zafirah is now 4 months old. She just learnt how to “meniarap” the other day Thank god for cellphone with video recording

Forgiving people is a very courageous deed. They are never to be taken lightly..

By: Hamdani Amin

Hamdani Amin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:06:14 +0000

Selamat Hari Raya Bro, a very nice picture of your family. How old is she? “Muhasabah” like what you stress here should be done every day. A I could say more, since it’s still hari raya, it’s time to get rid of those lies with forgiveness. No matter painful it is.

By: banji

banji — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:42:03 +0000

Wilda – I guess his first impression that the tution is unavoidable has changed when you cancel the class. Hm but it’s going to be very hard to give tution everyday without fail.

By: wilda

wilda — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:14:35 +0000

it was the same when i tutored my brother. i would be tutoring him every night, but one day, i was too tired because i just got back from usm. so i decided to cancel the class. n since then, it was soooo hard to start the class back. he started to give 1001 excuses. tired, learnt already at school, got so much homework..’sigh’…

By: banji

banji — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:49:11 +0000

Gale P – That’s another way to look at it. Children are very sensitive when it comes to their education. You teach them wrongly, they will hold on to that their entire life.

And I like that concept of “possibility-thinking”. The idea of taking risk without actually taking risk. It’s really a win win situation. I remember reading something just as similar. If I’m not mistaken it is also called as “guided mistake”. It’s when we encourage the children to make mistake but the mistake done is purely educational.

I may write an article about this later Can I?

By: Gale P

Gale P — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:16:18 +0000

What a lovely photo of you and your family. Nice touch to add here. I like an unspoken moral of the story that dismissing a young boy in charge of their direction has repercussions on his future and your relationship with him. How many young boys use and respect what they know about a compass these days anyway? I like that young man. Perhaps we should have asked him how long he thought it would take to climb the mountain. We always look at the path of least resistance and try to go around a problem. I read a study recently about children and creativity or “possiblity-thinking” and one of the concepts they came away with was that “risk-taking” even in conversation and being willing to step outside the box seemed to be key to creativity. It is something that can be nurtured. Just a thought.