The neonates...

The summer vacation is almost over. I feel that the kids have had an awesome summer.

They made new friends at the summer program, they had friends over to our house for lunch and dinnner on any day and I get to meet their friends. You see, I am like a big kid too, I love communicating with kids, especially the kids' friends. The thing is, they tend to treat themselves as adults and try to speak like they know everything in this world. From boy/girl relationship to cellphones to movies. OK, part movies tuh memang lah I am so behind (Ely still in her 80's Grease, Pretty in Pink and the Godfather Trilogy era) but apart from that, I can get along with the kids' friends just fine. Sometimes I control the conversation by talking more than them, teasing them and advising them that boys don’t rule the world (sorry husband).

Sometimes, the 'party' gets to be so good that my daughter would tell me to stop being cool cos it will make her uncool. But I always tell my daughter the reason why I hang out with her friends is because I love her and her friends and as long as they, including her, enjoy my company, there is nothing for her to be embarrassed about.

I think the kids are going through a phase of them being embarrased over whatever their parents do. They get embarrased when I way 'woof woof woof' and 'GO MAT, TAKE THEM HOME' when Mat batted a triple in baseball, Mas gets embarrased when I yelled 'GO MAS get that ball!' when she was playing soccer or when I start to make their friends laugh, they say that I was being silly. Sigh…maybe they feel that parents are to be seen and not heard? Now wait a minute, shouldn’t that be reversed?

Since the kids are going to two new better schools next week, I am very excited for them, to make new decent friends and taking them home so that I could feed and entertain them! According to the schools' statistics, most of the students are filipinos and tiny bit of hispanics with even tinier bit of white americans, that’s our life in Daly City, California, love them filipinos!

The kids also received their State Examination results last week. Yup, they did pretty well alright. Masturah scored 'higher average' on Math, English and Science (only 3 subjects rated) and Mat scored 'higher average' on English and 'Advance' in Math (only 2 subjects rated). I am very happy that the kids are growing and becoming useful and intelligent kids.

I am very proud of you Masturah and Abdul Mathein…don’t stop in making your parents proud OK!

*this is the GOOD side of parenting. I shall keep the OTHER side for later postings!