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Advantage of having Dinners with Friends

PK — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:16:45 +0000

Monday night we went out to dinner with M’s school friend after our school Christmas concert. We shared a lot of conversation and laughs between the two families.

Today while we were in the car, M volunteered a thought: It is good to have dinner with friends. I did not know (her friend) very well. Now I do. You can learn a lot about them with dinner.

A very keen insight.

Talking about How to Buy A House

PK — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:09:57 +0000

That’s right. My six years old asked me to explain how to buy a house. “After you buy a house, do you still have to pay money each month?” he asked. He must have heard us talking about monthly budgets. I explained the concept of mortgage, and monthly expenses associated with home ownership.

Then he asked “How much is a car?”. That leads to a discussion of a “loan”. “Mortgage is a type of loan” I said.

Finally, we talked about work. “If you have all the money in the world, would you still need to work so hard?”

The answer: I may not need to work as hard, but I really enjoy what I do. I enjoy making a contribution to the world. Helping people makes me happy. You will not be happy if you do nothing every day.

I hope they understand.

Author, Illustrator, and… what?

PK — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:30:09 +0000

G has been creating some amazing books for the last few months. Yesterday I decided to setup a template for him so that he can make his books a little neater. You can download my PDF template here.

Looking at his latest creation, I realized he wrote “Written and Illustrated by G”, but “decided words by M”. Then I realized he always thought “Author” means the physical act of writing, not the creative writing. For this story he was creating this book with input from M so he wrote “decided words by M”.

Monetary Transactions

pk — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:51:53 +0000

I just found out that M has encouraged the two of them to have all sorts of monetary tranactions, using coins from their piggy banks. M has been selling things to G, and sometimes paying G to do things for her. Listening to their transactions cracks me up. At this age of course they don’t really assert the correct value of each transactions. I wish I have a log of their transactions and show them after a few years!

A dog, a GPS, a Joke

PK — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:35:51 +0000

M is definitely the one with the imagination and humor bones. She has a little stuff toy dog that she keeps in her coat pockets sometime. While we were in the car, she came up with this story:

Doggie wanted to go home. He put the address in his GPS. The GPS took him to his dog house, which is next to my house. He wanted to go to my house. So he thought his GPS is broken and took it to the store. They told him it is not broken. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha…

Overhead #23

PK — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:14:30 +0000

Waking up hearing your two toddlers having an actual conversation:

G: Where did you go last night?
M: I saw people climbing, up and down
G: really?
M: yes.

(We took M to see someone indoor rockclimb.)