FAMILY – 1 Day 1 Thought

Sometimes, a child is much simpler than we think they are

Kenneth — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:11:43 +0000

A little over a week ago, the girlfriend and I brought Alyssa to a Toys ‘R’ Us warehouse sale to get her some educational toys After some browsing, we settled on two items – a balancing bike and a big ass drawing board (for Alyssa’s size) with numbers and the alphabet on the opposite side At hindsight, I think we were more excited than Alyssa. We knew that she loved to draw and assumed that a...

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Day 26/30 – Our life before and after a baby

Kenneth — Sat, 18 May 2019 00:25:14 +0000

Early last year, Alyssa came into our lives. I still remember clearly how it was like in the delivery room; the first sound of Alyssa crying when she came out of her mother’s womb, how she first opened her eyes and looked at me, and how it felt when I first held my baby girl. It was beautiful, and we knew our lives would literally change forever. We just didn’t know how much it would change.

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Day 25/30 – Saying sorry is bullish*t

Kenneth — Thu, 16 May 2019 23:30:47 +0000

Alyssa is becoming more independent by the day. From a helpless infant, she is now becoming the queen of the world, doing whatever she feels like in the spur of the moment; sometimes at the expense of another person’s (child or adult) feelings Because of that, we increasingly need to teach her to say ‘sorry’ to the wrong things that she does. By my count, she needed to say sorry for about 2,234...

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Day 20/30 – Does good cop/bad cop parenting works?

Kenneth — Sun, 12 May 2019 00:58:04 +0000

I was chit-chatting with the cousins a few weeks back about the One Day One Thought blog and talking about some of the topics that I was planning on writing. This is when my cousin Emily Quak, one of Malaysia’s top beauty YouTuber and makeup artist, suggested this topic. Credits to her for this awesome topic! Good cop/bad cop parenting is when both parents take opposing roles when dealing with...

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Day 17/30 – My wife is a superwoman

Kenneth — Wed, 08 May 2019 23:51:54 +0000

They say marriage is about love, but I think it’s more than that. Marriage is a conscious choice that we make everyday to stick with a person through thick and thin. To know that there are some things in our lives that we will never see eye to eye, but that’s ok, because we respect our differences and know that marriage is bigger than one annoying issue I always tell other people that I have no...

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Day 13/30 – How we’d like to raise our child (Happiness is secondary)

Kenneth — Sat, 04 May 2019 23:55:25 +0000

Being responsible for another small little person’s wellbeing is something, having two person’s agreeing on how to raise the small little person is a whole other thing. Since Alyssa came into our lives, the girlfriend and I have been talking (a lot) about how to best raise her into a functioning adult. Both of us were brought up differently and have our own opinions and believes about the things...

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Day 5/30 Are we good enough parents?

Kenneth — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:29:50 +0000

What makes a great parent? Are we doing enough for our child? Is she happy? I can’t remember the number of times the wife and I had this discussion. Since our first child arrived, our lives were turned upside down. In an instant, we became parents; our carefree honeymooner statuses were gone. We also felt the most profound sense of love and responsibility towards the small being that was lying in...

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