November 8th, 2005
Favourite Again
» motherhood
Alright, I am no longer sour and sore, it seems that I have won back the position to be Yauyau’s all time favourite and she doesn’t cry for Indar anymore. I have no idea why what made her stopped crying for Indar suddenly.
Perhaps it was just short phase when she found mama to be too busy minding her own business and neglected her, thus she decided to seek the comfort of another person. And maybe it was because I stopped panicking and take things easier when that happened. During the first few incidents when she cried sorrowfully for Indar, I simply couldn’t stomach the idea of her not wanting me. I wanted to stopped her crying and calling for Indar immediately by carrying her and pacifying her. It didn’t really worked. After a few rounds of failure, we decided to knock some sense into the kid by telling her that Indar was not around, she would be back again tomorrow. Wow, surprisingly, that did the trick. She seemed to understand that and wasn’t that unmanageable anymore.
Well, should have realised earlier that the kid is growing up fast, reasoning seems to be working much better then distracting, humouring, pacifying or giving in.
November 8th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
Seems that Yauyau is quite a sensible kid. I’ve read some articles that say that reassuring the kid that someone will return after leaving for a short period of time (e.g. parents going off to work in the morning) can help calm her down and reduce the amount of crying. It sure works well in your case.
November 14th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
Hi Hui Leng,
I know what I’m gonna write below is totally unrelated to your post, but i really need to ask you this:
If I totally skip the MMR vaccination for my daughter, is it ok? As in, would the authorities (govt?) come after me with a fine? Or jail ?!? Is it compulsory in the first place? I know the health booklet would record all the vaccinations… so if don’t have MMR, can still enter pri sch or not? Can we let the child have the MMR vaccination much later, say, Pri 1?
November 16th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Sorry to reply so late! Yeah, the authorities will come after you for sure! But not to the extend of throwing you into jail lah
, I think they will send us letters and nag us to get it done. Vaccinating against measle is compulsory in Singapore, and we cannot register our kids into primary school without it. So, I guess you can either postpone it until the child’s P1 registration, or…..do home schooling and skip it altogether, well, unless the law changes again and make it into some criminal offence for not taking the jab.