Raising Boys

Lennon does well June 29, 2005

Lennon now knows how to follow simple instructions. At his school earlier today, his teacher asked him to do simple exercises that involved connecting dots from left to right. His teacher showed him how to do it and he completed the other sets on his own.

We still can’t understand him, his vocabulary at two years and five months is still limited to less than 20 words, but he sure can understand us. You tell him to do something and you need to say it only once. He’d understand immediately. Dad will tell him to go get something and he’d get it.

I’m sure that not being understood is frustrating to him. It’s possible this frustration is the cause of all his behavior problems. I’m really close to just quit forcing him to learn Cebuano even if I wanted to teach him this language first because he seems to have no aptitude for it.

School troubles June 28, 2005

Dylan is having problems in school. He does not write as fast as his classmates and sometimes finishes last. He told us recently that he does not want to go to school anymore because of all the stuff they have to copy from their books to their notebooks and I suspect that he faked a stomachache once just to be allowed to stay home.

What’s a mom to do?

Arroyo speech transcript June 27, 2005

The Sun.Star website has posted the full transcript of the speech President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivered earlier tonight. Arroyo, in her speech, apologized for a “lapse in judgment” that had her talking to an election official about hopes for a million-vote margin in last year’s elections.

Blog on Arroyo apology

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has finally ended her defeaning silence on wiretapped tapes that allegedly showed her talking to an election official about rigging last year’s elections.

Arroyo apologized in her speech for what she said was a “lapse in judgment”.

The Sun.Star website has put up a blog for on-time coverage of her speech and reactions from administration and opposition officials. The blog was put up to complement Sun.Star’s Arroyo Watch section.

Fever problems June 26, 2005

After Dylan, it’s now my other son who has come down with something. My husband and I took turns watching over him last night. His temperature rose to a high 41 degrees C and stayed in that range even after we’ve given him paracetamol and he has one those fever patch pasted to his forehead the whole time.

Lennon was crying and babbling incoherent words; he was shaking, too. I was so worried we almost decided to bring him to the hospital until I remembered what happened with his elder brother. The doctor had sent us home with a prescription.

Earlier yesterday, I brought him to my mother’s house and he had fun running after all the chickens there. He did not want to go home. He was all right then.

Another busy day June 22, 2005

Finally finished and submitted feature for online course. What a relief! I feel like going out and celebrating but may have to settle for glass of wine at home. I’m so tired.

I was out the whole day attending the Cebu 2005 ICT summit at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City. I posted some entries in the blog we created for the event. I posted a picture of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and a little of what she said in her speech using my mobile phone. The Sun.Star website is trying out mobile blogging and the ICT summit was the perfect event to test it on.

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