Kids Cooking

Date:  Jan 26, 2016

Children need to be given duties at home.  Even if you have a domestic helper, you should assign your child something to do or to help with.

Teach them how to make Ice Cream (without using the Ice Cream maker)

Make their hands dirty.

Their job can be as simple as taking a scissors and cut the home made macaroni.

Instead of letting them watch TV or play games by themselves.  

Make them do work.

Hey, see what Kay Kay has prepared for the playdate dinner.  

This is the great age to assign them to do things.  Even playdates can help out.

Simple task like decorating the CNY decors.

This is a job for children.  Not a job for domestic helper.

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Kids will be happy to decorating the house.

They feel a strong sense of ownership of our home.

The make the home looks lively.

At the end of the day, lazy parents will clap their hands and say Thank You!

During weekend.  It will be this fellow job to prepare breakfast.

See he just wake up.  His hair still standing.

Don’t be afraid to make him fry eggs.

It is the most easy task.  You know after he mastered this skill.  He can cook his lunch next time.  hahahaha

Cook rice, cook egg, put a bit of soya sauce, and that’s it.  

Of course, thru out the time, he will learn more dishes.

This is the Sunny Side Up he make for all of us.

And then, he will set the table and call all of us to come and eat.

Although it is simple meal.  

But this meal is prepared by my son.  

And he is only 10 years old.

This week.  My Sunday breakfast.  Of course, Cucumber not cut by him.  He still need some time to handle knife.

This was last week one.  With home grown cabbage.

Three weeks ago.  He tries his first ever scramble egg.

This is his very first attempt.  Which is 3 weeks ago too.

Some times ago, he also prepare these.  We prepare and cut the beef for him he just cook with everything in it.  Watch the fire, and that’s it.  

He felt so proud.

(The beef curry is a bit hard, I think control of fire not so accurate.  But still edible.  Next day, mommy cook another 1 hour to make the meet soft)

(Stif fry beef is nice)

(Tofu is simple)

Don’t forget Monkey see Monkey do.

So, the young one also take parts in some activities.

He make these cookies.  As you can see, not all cookie the same size.

And yes, sometimes there are injury happen.  

Like last week, Jay got oil burnt on his fingers.  

But hey, that’s cooking.  So, what is cooking if you don’t burnt your hand some time.  hahahaha

this will only make the kids more careful next time handling cooking.

Maid Support

Date:  Jan 8, 2016

During the absence of our Domestic helper (Dec 22, 2015 until Jan 5, 2016), we have two maid support.  “Maid Support” I guess means the person who support the Domestic Helper.

They learned how to spin the mob and make sure the floor is clean.

 

Older kids can start learning how to wash dishes.

So, they will be tasked to do rice dumplings “Tang Yuan”.

Look at my BB-8 Tang Yuan.

One day, we teach Jay Jay how to cook.  So, he cook the Japanese Curry (errr… the beef is quite hard), Stir fried beef capsicum (which is quite nice) and steam tofu.

In the morning, Jay Jay will fried eggs for us.  

Not too bad.

The second day, we have even better, improved breakfast.

He tried cooking scramble eggs too.

Jay Jay is 10 years old this year.  So, it is a good time for him to learn how to cook.

Of course the food are simple food.  All materials are pre-cut for him.  All he needs to do is to turn on the stove, heat it up, and stir fry or cook it.

It is a good start.

And the whole family enjoys his food.  Those that is not edible, we will slow cook it for another 1 hour for next day.

Of course, they will also task to prepare their washed cloths.  Sort it out and place it in the correct cupboard, and so on.

The two boys has grown up and happily accepted their tasks to help out.

And we survive that two weeks plus without domestic helper at home.  Cool!

Jay Jay Back In Action In Badminton

Date:  Sep 20, 2015

The kids has a lot of sport activities each week.  This is one of them where both brothers enjoy playing. 

Jay Jay just recovered from a knee cut injury.  But seems like he has fully recovered.  This is his first training since resting 2 weeks for the injury.

Seems to me that he has finally learned how to get rid of his elbow problem when hitting the shuttlecock.  He uses to bend too much on his elbow.

But this week, I can see that he has improved a lot in this area.

Also, the foot work is starting to get better.

Can lar… next time can “xian char bo” using badminton.  :)

Foot work is important.  That is why I also please to see how Kay Kay practise his foot work.  Well done Kay!

I think he can become better than his brother Jay Jay in 1-2 years time.  hahahahaha  Good work Kay!

Badminton is a sport I like.  I think it is the only sport I like.  

May be it is the gene, so, the two boys also likes to play badminton.

For Jay is for fitness.

For Kay is for fun!

Putting @ Home

Jan 26, 2015

This is the latest putting mat I bought for Jay Jay.

It is a fine carpet.  Gives you a green speed of 9-10.5.

It comes with 5 holes.  Each hole comes with a flag stick, a cup and a “star ball”.  The star ball suppose to stop the ball if the stroke is a bit hard.

The length is just nice.  

It’s big enough to have a 2-3 meter putt.

Putting practice is important to the kids to build up their confident in hitting the putt.  

It is all about accuracy how you putt the ball into the hole.

This is another putting mat I have bought a year ago.  This one is great too.  As there are lines on the mat to align your putter.

Kay Kay was playing here for a couple of days and he now asked if he can join golf lesson?  Not yet, Kay Kay.  Wait until you are P1.

Jay Jay is starting his next level golf lesson.  Every week, he is spending 2 hours on the golf course.  So, he needs to practice this to lower his score.

Usually we placed 5 balls and try to hit the balls into the yellow flag cup.  

The two brothers will compete with each other.

After practicing for a few days, let’s put the practice into good work!

So, he did very well on the course yesterday.

Played only 5 holes yesterday.  But boogie the last two hole. 

Goli @ Home

Date:  Jan 25, 2015

I have this putting mat at home.  

It comes with some very shallow holes.  (about 1-2mm heights)

I also got a few boxes of “Goli-es” (Marbles).  

Let’s play Goli!  (Marbles)

You can set up all kinds of rules.

We bought this from the Best Toy Shop.  It is a marble counting system.  You shoot the marbles from far, and landed on the hole with points marked on it.

He shoot so many onto it.

I have this golf putting cup.  So, all you do is to roll the goli up the slope, and it will automatically roll down to the hole.

The shallow golf holes are not easy, ok!  If you roll it too hard, it will come out. 

Like that, the kids play goli for the whole night.  HaHaHaHa