Hoong Yang: Soon Chee Hao's birthday celebration

Happy birthday Soon Chee Hao

Giving love to get love.

Birthday eggs

Fish jelly

Its going to be four months since the beginning of 2012 which means many new new students have been with us for almost four months already. During this period we have successfully overcome many challenges pertaining to negative habits, aggressiveness and non cooperativeness of the children, not by strict discipline and punishment but by plenty of encouragements and love. Today we see many students slowly changing their attitude towards their peers to be more tolerant, understanding and loving.Some even show more loving and affection to their parents. Knowing that love begets love, but many new parents still insist that we play 'hard' instead of 'soft' in order for the children to get good academic results. It is important for parents to cooperate with the centre by looking at problems as our mutual challenges instead of looking for more problems and even add on to it. Take for example, if a child forgets to take his water tumbler to school, the parents highlight the problem and blame it on the teachers and the centre for forgetting to remind the child. Will this blame help the child in any way? This child will never be independent if everything is organized for him. We have come across our children who did not bring their water tumbler to school, but could borrow a glass from the canteen and take water from the school's water dispenser. Now, we have our children taking just the tumbler without water to school so that their bags will be lighter and they can take the water from the school's water dispenser later.We have a child who could borrow some money from our teacher for his canteen food, instead of sitting out hungry for forgetting to bring his pocket money. There is no right or wrong; but which do we prefer.