My Parentology Lab

It's never been easy to coach my 3 years old to read nor write, as she is a highly egoistic child! Despite we read to her a lot and she enjoyed listening to the books we recited and explained, she can't read... not even a single word. However she is gifted with incredible memory, to be precise she has amazingly good selective memory. She can memorized the most difficult(for me and papa)books' titles, storyline and content, and even chanting a Buddhist mantra that would take an adult ages to memorize it!

I have tried with flashing word cards( when she was much younger), phonics, and even words game that sort of like playing scrambles, yet still she has problem to identity which direction should a word start!! For instance, 'DOG'... she will arrange it as ' GOD' (slapped forehead)!

This post is actually to record an incident that happened this Sunday, when we were in Popular IOI mall. She took a paper back book and pestered me to buy for her, I looked at the price, it's RM9.90?!!(for such a thin paper back book) I didn't want to upset her with a stern 'No', thus I tried to reject her with a more indirect trick. I told her if she got to read the title of the book, then I'll buy her that book(of course in my mind I actually thought she can't never get it right) else she has to put it back from where she got it from!


To my surprise, She pointed at the title words by words and pronounced, "Dora's Picnic!" She got it all right, I know she might have tricked me with her intelligent as the front page showed a picture of Dora was having a picnic, but nevertheless it's a good reading attempt! Well done my lovely girl!

This book is received from Thomas Nelson Publisher as part of their booksneeze blogger program. The review is 100% opinion of my own.


I received this book last week on the rainy day, the postman was drenched in rain when he handed me the book... sort of like transpiring the content of this "On this day in Christian history", which has written by pastor, Robert J.Morgan.

I love History during my school days, and couldn't agree more with Aleksandr's saying in the preface, " If we don't know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again."

However, my mood instantly down after I have gone through a few stories in this book. Most Christian revolution heroes and saints were ended up in misfortune and disastrous, they were reprimanded, tortured and harassed inhumanly before they died. The stories were heart wrenching yet poignant, no matter how awful and drastic the condition and environment were, none of the heroes nor saints had given up preaching and inspiring their believers and nation.

Overall, it's a great Christianity History story book but definitely not for the faint hearted!

Each valuable story was arranged and printed according to the exact date and month when the incident happened.


I enjoyed reading the meaningful quotes and proverbs, which finely printed at the bottom of each inspiring story!

"Books Love Me!" will turn four in December and the lovely blog's owner, Josette is holding a coolest book giveaway! Yes, you stand a chance to win a book of your choice if you enter this contest. There will be FOUR winners.


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I didn't aspect X(14 months 3 weeks) will have tremendous improvement in speech. Today, after prompted by FIL, again he blurted words like, "ice cream, rubber band, ball ball, dog dog"! Wow... I reckon pretty soon he will be as bubbly and chirpy as his sister does!(smirk)

He obviously has advantage in speech since I read to him a lot. On top of that, he also has a talkative sister to tag around and most important he is a very energetic and active boy, which he trains his lungs from time to time and benefited him to have better speech development!

Yesterday evening, X(14 months 3 weeks) took out a "Health Today" magazine and handed it to FIL. FIL looked down, pointed to the magazine with US president on the cover and asked him, "Who is this?" before he say anything, FIL said "Obama!"

In a split second, FIL was amazed when X giggled happily and repeated after him, "Obama~!" loud and clear! I was astonished too to hear what he had recited! FIL then prompted him to speak again, he uttered another soundly "obama". FIl got over excited and kept badgering him to repeat more, but then he failed to say it.... instead of a clear and loud "Obama", he uttered, "O dada" ...

However, this morning when I showed him the magazine again, without prompting, he pointed at the cover and happily exclaimed, "Obama"! Hey, this reminds us that kids learn better in a spontaneously pace, don't they?!(wink)

Sunday morning, right before we off for the Mickey Mouse Road Rally Exhibition, the commotion happened!

Before we packed and get the kids into the car, I noticed J didn't put on her socks but since she didn't make a fuss that time I ignore it. However right after papa locked the house door and grill, she started to look for her socks(slapped forehead). We didn't succumb to her request, but emphasized that she should tell us earlier before the door is locked and the alarm is armed. Then she started to throw tantrum, continuosly storming the back of the front seat(as she sat at the back).

I ignored her and went to open the front gates and waited for TK to reverse the car. When I got back into the car, TK gave me a grumpy look and swore angrily, " She SPOILT my day!" I turned my head to the back( I sat at by the driver seat) and found Juan Juan was pised off, with trails of tears in her eyes... apparently, she got 'bamboo' from her father again, sigh~! Luckily when she reached MIL's house, they have a spare socks for her to call her fretfulness a stop!

But still, J was rather 'down' that morning until she had a joyful trip in the PETROSAINS. When we asked her whether she wants to come again next time, she shoke her head and replied, " Don't want, next time I want to go to another new Science Centre!" we burst into laughter right away!

Nowadays, I have no longer got my nerves on when my kids fuss or whine. Whenever they repeat the 'despicable attitude', I'll just remind them, " This doesn't work on me anymore..." then they will keep their mouth shut... most of the time! (smile)

It's actually a shocking news to me, after reading Domesticgoddess's Our World My World today, I hopped straight to "What We Have Learnt About Gifted Children" and found that J is actually a Visual Partial Learner while X, an Auditory Sequential!

All these while although I have sensed that she is gifted, but I never thought she is a VPL! I used to play jokes with family and relatives, telling them that J might not do well in her study, as she would encounter the same problem as Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison had at school! Now touch wood, my words are probably came true... no wonder I found it's hard to coach J with her study and homework, she just couldn't accomodate with those serious syllabus and proper teaching, which she learns complex concepts easily and struggles with easy skills! Sigh~!

Great! Now I have to really crack my head over how to guide her through her future study...

Below are some characteristic of X- AUDITORY-SEQUENTIAL(A),
and J- VISUAL-SPATIAL(V):

Thinks primarily in words
Thinks primarily in pictures

Has auditory strengths
Has visual strengths

Relates well to time
Relates well to space

Is a step-by-step learner
Is a whole-part learner

Learns by trial and error
Learns concepts all at once

Progresses sequentially from easy to difficult material
Learns complex concepts easily; struggles with easy skills

Is an analytical thinker
Is a good synthesizer

Attends well to details
Sees the big picture; may miss details

Follows oral directions well
Reads maps well

Does well at arithmetic
Is better at math reasoning than computation

Learns phonics easily
Learns whole words easily

Can sound out spelling words
Must visualize words to spell them

Can write quickly and neatly
Prefers keyboarding to writing

Is well-organized
Creates unique methods of organization

Can show steps of work easily
Arrives at correct solutions intuitively

Excels at rote memorization
Learns best by seeing relationships

Has good auditory short-term memory
Has good long-term visual memory

May need some repetition to reinforce learning
Learns concepts permanently; is turned off by drill and repetition

Learns well from instruction
Develops own methods of problem solving

Learns in spite of emotional reactions
Is very sensitive to teachers’ attitudes

Is comfortable with one right answer
Generates unusual solutions to problems

Develops fairly evenly
Develops quite asynchronously

Usually maintains high grades
May have very uneven grades

Enjoys algebra and chemistry
Enjoys geometry and physics

Learns languages in class
Masters other languages through immersion

Is academically talented
Is creatively, mechanically, emotionally, or technologically gifted

Is an early bloomer
Is a late bloomer