Wednesday, November 26, 2008

finding the right education


the way i see it, my kids should get the best education i can afford to give them.

i don't care about how many subjects the school offers,
i wanted a learning journey for my kids,

I don't care that much if she can't fill in the blanks with correct answer,
i want her to think of thousand ways to fill in the blanks.

i don't mind the bad spelling, she's 4 anyway,
i want her to love words, understand it and use it.

and don't call her slow when she can't read,
everyone has their own pace of learning.
besides, what good would it be if she knows how to read,
but don't read when she's off school?
i want her to love reading, as the Quran says, Iqra'..

i don't want her to be resticted with homework,
during my time, i have lots of it,
and i hate it.
Of course it helps me to score,
look at me, i'm stuck with the same job in the office,
while those who did not score, happily owns a business..
I want her to understand and love knowledge,
homework might help,
but not daily, she's 4 anyway!

I don't want her to only have one group of friends,
the english-spoken, the highly-paid-parents, the all-malay, the religious-parents,
the all-chinese, the all-indian,
heck i don't care, i want her to have all type of friends, name it.
most importantly, i don't want her to be scared to be friend with anybody,
did Islam forbid us from making friends with everybody?
Don't think so..

sigh,
hope there'll be light that shine us, and at least enlighten us that children are children,
they just wanna have fun!

2 comments:

RedAnna said...

its sound so hard to be a parent... i cant imagine how am i going to be one...huhu

ninaC said...

i think u should watch muallaf. later kalau aku jumpa dvd, aku beli kat hang naaa.

and i think what ever u wrote down is correct. dont bother to keep up with other people expectations.

raise ur own kids the best way u see fit.

muahs.. luv u.
hugs n kisses to ur kids.