Children grow up fast. Way faster than I sometimes can cope with. But they do, as the days pass us by. Sigh. I seem to have little choice as I wage a battle against time daily. I hope I am doing enough to equip them with skills and knowledge they would need before they need them.
They have done well, if you ask me, this year. Rachel has proved to be a good teacher-helper in school - helping to continually 'point out' her friends errors and asked by her teacher to help her friends with reading and some work. She displayed her nerves and capability when she performed a few times near the end of the year and did not show any sign of stage-fright.
My hope for Rachel in 2012 would be to continue to learn well and learn fast - everything that is thrown in her way. She will be facing yet another new experience in 2013 - starting primary school alone. Being the eldest child, she is a little disadvantaged - there are no siblings to ease her into each new experience / situation. I hope that she will be able to come up above the odds again, like the other times she had earlier.
Felix has improved in terms of concentration and had less frequent mood swings towards the second half of the year. Though he continues to test my wife and me in terms of patience, we forgive him, like always. In the new year, I hope he can be a more independent worker and improve more on his volatile mood. An important area where he needs to improve in too is his frequency of bed wetting! Enough said!
Kayleen has been getting rave reviews from her teachers in play-school almost everytime we meet them to speak about their progress. They have been commending her on how much a leader she is to tots of her age. However, she is very dependent on the adults around her when she needs her simple everyday chores done, e.g. taking her clothes off, bathing, eating.
I hope she will take a renewed look at getting things done by herself in the new year. She needs to cross the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of visiting the washroom to get her business done and step relying on her diapers. That helps us, as parents, in cutting costs and the need to buy her diapers! Also, I hope her passion for learning (in terms of reading and writing) can be miraculously ignited. She is the only non-reader at home and I hope that can change in the coming year!
As their father, I am sure that our children have hopes for us in the new calendar year. I reckon they will hope for us to be more patient, as well as spend more time with them! I must keep this at the back of my mind as I approach tasks this year with them!
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