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Weekly Round-up – Second Week of July

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Another week gone by too fast or at least that’s how it feels for me. About ‘that girl‘, well I got plenty of curious questions about the girl I mentioned on my Friday Flip-offs, some of the comments I received totally crack me up. You guys are the best! Here’s the story: Late last December an old friend from college asked me if I’d be interested in doing some   translation job for her friend – see I don’t know ‘that girl’ personally. Off I worked my behind off to translate two killer Press Release for ‘that girl’s company for a friction of a cost licensed translator would charge. Press release means it will be published somewhere right? I didn’t have .....

You Know You’re A Mom When

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Have seen this meme around for awhile but this is my first time joining in. So here it goes… You know you’re a mom when: There’s a little person who will scream their heads off saying, demanding “Mommy, fix it!” continuously even after you begged them to wait until Daddy is home 0r any male figure show up. Yeah, like that will ever work! So you tried to do everything humanly possible to fix the darn train track, car, robot – and the list goes on… There’s a little person that expect you to know how to put up such a complicated Hot Wheels track that Grandma just bought for her beloved grandson even when the box clearly marked 5 .....

How Do You Discipline A Toddler?

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As usual, when I’m at my parents’ house and someone is acting up – off he goes to time out… “You have to be more patience…” said my Dad as I sent Lil’ A to time out for the 100th times because he thinks jumping on top of piles of his old clothes that I just neatly folded is so much fun than climbing up the windows railing, which got him several warnings already. “You will have more headache when he’s a teenager…” Dad went on. From the way my Dad was talking I can tell he was 90% teasing me – because he knows Lil’ A can drives me insane for sure. “You used to make us standing in .....

Weekly Round Up

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So, after a small objection from Lil’ A about my blackberry, I took the weekend off not only from the phone (well almost! I still had to communicate with DH!) but also from my laptop and you know what it feels great! But I do miss reading the blogs I love – so will try to do some catch up soon. Milestone wise: The boy now speaks longer sentences, some words just spurted out of nowhere! Like last Saturday while playing with his small uncles and aunts (yes – technically he is their little nephew!) he blurted out “No! That’s not how you do that…here, let me show you!” with a very bossy tones it’s almost make me fell on .....

Temporary Separation

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From this: “Stop checking your phone, Mommy!” Lil’ A’s words felt like a punch last night as I lay next to him and replying to some stuffs on Twitter. Guilty as charged, I apologized to him and asked “You don’t like Mommy checking her phone too much?” and he replied “I don’t like it…“ Another guilty pang inside! Two years ago – when I took that picture above – I actually made fun of my family who were already using Blackberry and thought it’s way too complicated for me. Then just last year, my family conspiracy  was to sucked me into their circle of Blackberry user and gifted me one for my birthday. That’s the end of my regular phone .....

Terrible Two, Eat Your Heart Out!

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Just when I thought we had escaped from the forest of the screaming-meltdown-tantrums from hell-phase that everyone calls the sweet Terrible Two… Please don’t let this sweet face fool you!  Yes, he can be as sweet as honey when he wants to! But lately I wonder where did that sweetness hide? It have to be his way or the high way! He talks back – already! Told me to stop talking *triple gasps!* Criticizing my Mommy skill by saying “Not like that Mommy!” or “No…this way, Mommy!” The boy stripped himself naked every chance he got! Pushing every ounce of patience this Mommy already lack off. The screams – oh the screams the piercing painful screams had returned from the .....

Just Because…

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I won’t have much time to post today or until we return from our little getaway on Monday… Our flight will be the first flight out which is at 7:00 AM! That means we’ll have to leave for the airport at least by 4:30 AM tomorrow. That part sucks but I’m excited and so is this little boy who will get to see his favorite band, The Wiggles live in concert on Saturday! Thought I’d leave you with Lil’ A’s bedtime prayer – he does knows this prayer well but he was just being silly -  oh and please do excuse my voice, it was after all pretty late hahaha [audio:http://www.tatterscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/vn00001201006012333.mp3|titles=Bedtime Prayer]

2 Years Old Smoker – Bad Parenting or Bad Policy?

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I for one is quite surprise to see this news spread internationally like wild fire for the last few days. Why? Because this boy is not the first case…yes – maybe first case that got such a spotlight – internationally none the less. There was another boy from Malang that ‘made-it-on-the-news’ last month. This 4 years old boy’s case is more severe, not only that the boy puffing away but also cursing like a sailor. Good to hear that children rights activist group had interfere with government and the boy is now smoke free. These are just a friction of child smokers in this country, the data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 per cent of Indonesian children aged .....

Weekly Round Up

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Failed to join the fun on Friday Flip-offs so I’d just post a few updates on the life front from my neck of the wood… Word sentence of the week: “One more time, please, Mommy, please…” insert a smile as sweet as a bucket of sugar that will gives you toothache! From telling Lil’ A to stop jumping up and down the bed to telling him to climb down from his Oma’s windows railing! Does bargaining skills even start this early? On potty training: Yes we are a little ‘behind’ on this department but I’m not one who have a time limit and push Lil’ A to be fully potty trained by a certain age. He’s actually been doing pretty .....

Formula vs Fresh Milk

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One of the things I noticed on local TV in Indonesia is the ferocity of formula commercials – specifically the toddler formula – not the baby kinds. While I was waiting to renew passport last week – out of boredom – I counted these commercials being aired on TV. 10 different formula commercials within an hour of a morning show. Shocking! Not only on TV, parents are being constantly bombarded with formulas through magazines & newspaper ads also at the supermarkets. I’m not talking just formula for babies but mainly for toddlers. This may have been a ‘normal’ practice in Indonesia for years on end now but I just never notice it before I became a mom. Whenever I went .....

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