How do children start standing on their feet? How do they start doing a lot of things on their own, interacting with others? How do we let them connect with the world, and what their teachers and friends are talking about in and outside of classrooms?
Apart from teaching them (and teaching them well!), I thought the other thing we can do for them is to equip them with lots of experiences; to let them see the many interesting things in the world. Let them see the world through their own eyes and not ours; experiential-learning, if I may borrow the term used too much from MOE.
That is one of the reasons we enrolled them in play-school. Let them learn to swim (hopefully) than sink once we let go of them. At times, when we take on the role of their teacher, our children tend to learn less effectively as they would throw tantrums and such with us.
When their godfather asked if we were interested in letting the elder two watch a musical put up by their school (children under the age of three were supposedly not admitted), we jumped at the chance. Why not? Let's go and enjoy the performance as a family, I thought. So on Thursday, 28 July 11, we got to Republic Polytechnic to watch Kuo Chuan Presbyterian's one-night only musical.
Rachel and Felix probably did not understand and had no premonition of what was going to happen then, but once the performance began, they were rather capticvated by it. In between scenes, Felix was so engaged in the show that he kept asking aloud, "Where is Justin (the lead character)?"
All in all, it was a good first experience for the duo. They were well behaved and did not throw tantrums though the performance ended a little too close to their bedtime for comfort. We can safely plan for more experiences for them, knowing that they can 'rise to the occasion'. A trip to the movies now beckons...
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