Wordful Wednesday {linky party}: Toothless Grin | Week 10

Hiroshi is 8.

And still has all his milk teeth intact.

I initially thought,

wow, we must have done a good job in protecting his milk teeth.

While most kids his age would have already gone through

the trauma of tooth loss at a much younger age!!

So when he came back from school telling me that he has a loose tooth,

I didn't think much of it.

I merely brushed him off and told him to see the school's dentist if he is in pain.

Unfortunately, there is a shortage of dentist in Singapore.

School dentists are shared among several neighboring schools

So hence he was not able to see the dentist for the next couple of days

since the dentist is not available.

Till one fine day, 

I was sitting really close range to him during lunch.

He opens his mouth to complain
how it would hurt when he was chewing on his food. 

Seeing that the adult tooth was already fully grown behind the baby tooth

which are yet to be extracted!

I could have just died in shock.

It's overcrowding!!

It's like putting 6.9 million people in 1 dot. (pun intended!)

And half the time I was blaming myself how could I have not check on him!!!

I told him that he has to get that dentist to see him immediately.

He did as he was told.

He went back to school and told the dentist about the shaky tooth problem.

The dentist extracted 2 in go!

Now the little boy is a warrior

Declaring to everyone,

that he has lost his 2 lower front teeth to the dentist.

So since the lost of his tooth,

I asked if he was going to put his tooth under his pillow 

for the tooth fairy to come collect.

He told me straight in my face, 

"there is no such thing as the tooth fairy!!"

I asked him, "you sure?!?!?"

He replied, "are you going to give me money if I put the tooth under the pillow?"

I couldn't help it,

I just burst out laughing!

This little boy is so rational!!!

Wordless & Wordful Wednesday {linky party}: I am a BIG GIRL now! | Week 5

I had a tough time teaching Sophia how to ride on a 2 wheeler,
as compared to Hiroshi.

Her fear of falling and hurting herself impairs her ability to listen to my instructions.

That reaffirms my thoughts that teaching kids does not come in 1 standard blueprint.

I was on the brim of calling quits,

and perhaps adopt the ostrich parenting style.

Bury my head in the sand

and hopefully, one of these days she might just magically learn to ride on her own!

But, that was not going to happen when you get a strong willed child.

Peer pressure from school was awful.

It seems that they are calling kids who still rides on training wheels "baby".

The princess was now very determine to learn.

So i googled on how to ride a bike. 

And this video has been exceptionally helpful!  

After 3 days of waddling, 

 and getting strange stares from people.

She finally got it!!!

I just can't tell you how proud I was of her 

when she shouted with glistering eyes, 

"Mummy, I DID IT!!!"