Friday, August 25, 2006

1 thousand, 2 thousand...

Once again CECILIA strikes 3! What shall I do with this girl? For the past weeks she has been this guai guai little darling and suddenly her little fork tail appeared. This time, SHE RAN OUT OF MY CLASS and head home when I told her to stay behind as I wanted to talk to her about her misbehaviors. Panicked? Na...I sashayed down the stairs and strolled out of the school gate knowing that she would have to wait for her brother to be dismissed from his P1 class before she would head home with her dad. When she saw me she gasped as though she saw a ghost. Spoke to her dad about all that she did and mentioned that for the next 2 recessed she would have it with me *grins* and so he would have to prepare some biscuits for her.

Yesterday she came with me to my clean *a ding *ding workstation during recess and I spoke to her about her anger management issue. So I gave her an alternative method to replace her impulsive "bash people up immediately" solution.

Soowei: Cecilia, when you are angry, before you want fight back, you can try counting 1 thousand, 2 thousand, 3 thousand .... til 20 thousand and after that you would feel better. ok? See if this helps.

Cecilia, agreed to this method and she looked so cute as we tried it. In fact this girl lost count when she reached 17 thousand. Ha...

Yesterday during English lesson:
Jamilah to Cecilia: Eh, you go office, what did Miss Sim tell you?

Cecilia: .... (could not hear what she explained about for the front part) she told me to count 1 thousand, 2 thousand ... and after that I will feel better.

Today after school along corridor:
Soowei to Cecilia: So did you use the counting method yesterday?
Cecilia: Yes!
Soowei: Oh...So. what made you angry?
Cecilia: Nothing.
Soowei: If nothing made you angry then why were you counting?
Cecilia: so that I will not forget.

Haaa... How not to love this little one right? :)
Are you angry today? Try counting 1 thousand, 2 thousand....

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