On and off I have been teaching Elric to feed himself. I can tell he is eager to do so. There were times he would reject food which I placed at his mouth and insisted on putting them into his mouth by himself.
However, the lazy mummy and daddy would fall back to feeding him because the process to coaching can be tedious. Imagine the kind of mess the child can create after each meal? You will have to clean him, his clothes, the table and even the floor. It is always seem simplier to feed him and get the meal time over and done with. :/
Now that Elric is 19 months old and has, I believe, very good motor skills for his age, I do not want to steal from him this joy of learning a new skill.
So this afternoon, I was all prepared for Elric to make a mess with his food. @__@
I thought I would close two eyes and do the cleaning up that would follow. To my surprise, Elric did fantastically well!
What's more delighting was to see the pride on his face telling me that, "See? Mummy I can do it!"
I'm sorry Elric! Mummy have belittled your capability!! You did an excellent job! :D
Here's a video proof! NVNT*!
Growing with my child
As I watched my son eat, it reminded me two things:
1. We need to give our children the chance to fail in order for them to succeed. In fact, even if it have been a messy meal, so long as he has achieved the objectives, he succeeded. He will surely get better at it.
2. As adults, we need to put down our pride and be willing to fail in order to continue learning new things. The fear of failure prevents learning. Only with humility will we truly get to grow continuously.
Didn't they say? 失败乃是成功之母。。。 (failure is the mother of success.)
aiyoooh... my son is Successful and I'm a Failure.
Die Lah!
hur hur hur...
Happy Mummy
*NVNT - No Video No Talk
However, the lazy mummy and daddy would fall back to feeding him because the process to coaching can be tedious. Imagine the kind of mess the child can create after each meal? You will have to clean him, his clothes, the table and even the floor. It is always seem simplier to feed him and get the meal time over and done with. :/
Now that Elric is 19 months old and has, I believe, very good motor skills for his age, I do not want to steal from him this joy of learning a new skill.
So this afternoon, I was all prepared for Elric to make a mess with his food. @__@
I thought I would close two eyes and do the cleaning up that would follow. To my surprise, Elric did fantastically well!
What's more delighting was to see the pride on his face telling me that, "See? Mummy I can do it!"
I'm sorry Elric! Mummy have belittled your capability!! You did an excellent job! :D
Here's a video proof! NVNT*!
Growing with my child
As I watched my son eat, it reminded me two things:
1. We need to give our children the chance to fail in order for them to succeed. In fact, even if it have been a messy meal, so long as he has achieved the objectives, he succeeded. He will surely get better at it.
2. As adults, we need to put down our pride and be willing to fail in order to continue learning new things. The fear of failure prevents learning. Only with humility will we truly get to grow continuously.
Didn't they say? 失败乃是成功之母。。。 (failure is the mother of success.)
aiyoooh... my son is Successful and I'm a Failure.
Die Lah!
hur hur hur...
Happy Mummy
*NVNT - No Video No Talk
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