Shower of love by drawing

It's just so cute and sweet, at these ages she likes to shower her love to me by giving me her drawings. She would specially make a birthday card for me and drew a picture as my birthday gift.

Felt angry and sensitive

Last night, the first time she shared with me about how she was angry with her friends, those friends that she thought were true friends. It happened last Thursday, when she was wearing her favourite dress/gown. She wore the same dress that she wore on her birthday. It was the gown that my sister (her 3rd aunt) bought for her. The gown was in pink, like those princesses wear. I guess the friends in her class, she mentioned 3 of them in a group, who she used to mention their names as their good friends, mocked at her. "They said i only have one clothes, and when i go for kai kai, i also wear the same clothes. They are very mean, they are not true friends."

As a mother, my protection mode and lecturing notes were quick to my mind. I wanted to teach her so many things, how to counter this kind of childish remarks from her friends, that they are small, do not know what they said can hurt someone. Would want to teach her to be confident, to protect herself, and ignore those remarks. But I paused, remember the teaching of Pastor Prince last week "Parenting with Grace". If we as parents were too quick to protect them and gave our advices, we rob their development too quick in understanding in the real life. I got to refrain myself to give the lecture to her, instead to listen how she felt. To understand her and it's ok for her to feel angry and victimized. It's part of her growth, there are things that are not always smooth sailing, things that they children will have to face about unfairness, meaness and wickedness, though i don't want them to have those bad things.
I know she is a very sensitive child with a sense of shame. She is sometimes very shy. Alot of things that she shared with me as a mother, she doesn't want me to share with anyone else, including her father. She now understands about shyness.

She is growing.

She said she doesn't want to go to Catholic Kindergarten anymore. Those friends in Catholic Kindergarten laughed at her. and she does not like them. They are not true friends to her. And it is different from when she was with Sunshine Kids school.

She can compare the two schools.

She can differentiate who are good and mean/bad friends.

Cristofori Beginner Class

Last Sunday, I registered Bethanie with Cristofori school of music. I removed her from SEIMPI sch, her last day was in Jun 2010. This decision was made of out budget consideration. I am not sure if i did the right thing, but hopefully she can continue learning classical music with a good quality teaching and teacher. I paid SGD 240.80 for a term (3 months) for Cristofori. This is almost half the price i pay for Seimpi.