Raising Boys

Crazy over Grey’s Anatomy February 12, 2007

I’m so unbelievably hooked on this show that I have taken to scouring the net for videos of new episodes that I can download. The airing of Grey’s Anatomy in our local cable is so delayed it is still in its second season.

In the US, the first of three episodes of the third season ender already aired on February 8. I don’t know how the third season finale will play out but the first episode of the season ender had Meredith Grey falling from the pier into the water and with nobody seeing her fall except a little girl.

I used to watch episodes in Peekvid.com but it’s now inaccessible so I’ve transferred to Greys-media.com. I was also able to watch two or three episodes in the Daily Motion site.

Greys-media.com has all the episodes of the three seasons but the downside is you have to download a single episode clip by clip and watch it in the same manner.

That math contest again

My 8-year-old son Dylan hates Math contests or he hates the intense reviews that accompany them and complains at how he has the bad luck of again being chosen to represent the second grade in the competition.

The dislike probably stems from that time in first grade when he was among three pupils picked as contestants for the Math Teachers Association of the Philippines (MTAP) contest and had to cram for the elimination exams.

They reviewed like crazy for two days–from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., it was enough to make a 7-year-old cry. One of the contestants, not my son, did cry, probably because he looked out the window while solving around a hundred review problems and saw that it was getting very dark.
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Lennon’s transformation February 7, 2007

I’m really getting the hang of raising my young son and what better way to start writing again in this blog than with an update on our improving relationship.

Lennon, 4, has shed off his tantrum ways, and turned into this amiable and likable kid who seeks to please me and his dad and by extension his brother. The transformation is such a complete turnaround, it seems to defy explanation.

It was not even four months ago when he’d cry, scream, and kick, pinch, hit anyone he could lay his hands on just to get his way.

Between now and then, my son has turned into this friendly kid who says hello to and smiles at everyone in the neighborhood.