Woke up at a later timing of 9 am today compared to 7am on the previous day. Even so, it was barely enough sleep since we only got to bed at 1am the night before.
2011 has indeed brought about many changes.
For instance, we have changed our weekend routine to eat at Long John Silvers on Sunday because of the kids' new CCA commitments on Saturdays. Previously, Saturday morning breakfast was always LJS as it's Flem's favourite!
Our usual routine is also to bring back two hashbrowns for our helper to eat. Today, Flem declared, "I am not going to bring back hashbrown for Auntie today. I will give her biscuits instead".
Flem didn't explain the reason for his odd and adhoc "decision" today, but clever NRZ immediately guessed Flem's intention - he didn't want to approach the LJS staff for plastic bag (which he usually is "assigned" by us to do) so he decided to try to eat up the remaining hashbrowns instead so that we can't ask him to do that today. Tsk tsk.
I am not too pleased by his "excuse" as above, but what made me really angry was the incident which happened when we went home later.
Well, since he ate up all the hashbrowns, I couldn't bring back any for Zaina, our helper ad usual. So I reminded Flem of his earlier promise, that he would give her biscuits instead. I handed two packets of biscuits over to him and instructed him to give them to Zaina.
Well, I was probably rather fierce and rather demanding when I did that, and so he was also very 不干愿 (unwilling) when he took over the biscuits from me.
But never did I expect that kind of behaviour from him like this: he walked over to Zaina who happened to be sitting on the floor and threw the biscuits on the floor to "give" to her.
When I saw that, I was really furious and immediayely smacked his hand on the spot. Also demanded him to apologise to Zaina anf I myself also said sorry to my helper as well.
I am definitely very saddened by the behaviour of my child and would not cordon such callous actions from him. Reprimanded him for a few minutes and being the stubborm child he was, he went on
"cold war" with me for an hour after that.
When he cooled down, he took the initiative to come to me to "make up". I told him he was "forgiven" but reminded him not to repeat such behaviour again. He nodded his head and "promised", but kids are kids, they forget easily, so I really hope.. he would really not do that again. To me, it is not essential that a kid must be smart" and score A grades , but he must learn to be thoughtful and display kind behaviour, that is the most important!
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