Sit.

One of the first things children need to do before they are ready to do some learning.

Sit.

One of the precursors in determining the attention span of a child.

Of course,not because a child is sitting down does not mean that the child is ready to learn.

For children with language processing problems, this is how to tell them to sit down. Not “Come sit here on the red chair.” or “I need you to sit now so we can start our lesson.” Chances are they will not be able to grasp if the message was about coming, sitting, the red chair, the starting, the lesson.

Why do children need to learn how to sit?

They sit when they eat. They sit when they do table top activities. They sit when they need to have a haircut. They sit in church. They sit when they are traveling. They sit when they wait for their turn at the doctor’ clinic. They sit when they watch tv and play with their computer games.

On the other hand, sitting does not mean that there is learning happening. There are those who just sit and not squirm but are not really learning anything.

Some children learn better when they are on the move.

Those schools that have the “Sit-down-and-listen-to-the-teacher” method should be avoided, if there are other alternative school. Children are active individuals and they won’t sit still for a long time. It is important to alternate both movements and table-top activities for them.

Click these Symptoms of ADHD and What to do if you Suspect Your Child has a Learning Disability?

This article, A Letter to My Grandmother by Dale S. Brown describes what he went through when he was growing up.

Another wonderful read: Beware the Sitting Trap.

Last night when we gassed up at a nearby gasoline station, my son saw a poster announcing the Singapore Night Race happening on September 26, 2008.

He asked is we can go to Singapore and watch the race.

Hubby said we can’t because the tickets are very expensive.

How expensive?

Just the walkabout price is the same as the plane fare itself, S$168 or PhP5,400+.

Those who will watch in the grandstands have tickets that range from S$248 - S$1388 or PhP 8,000 - PhP 44834.60. Whew.

We listened to him explain that it is going to be a wonderful race because it is the fist time Formula 1 will have a night race. He also further said that what will add to the excitement would be seeing the glow of the brakes on the wheels which can’t be seen during seen during daytime races.

I suddenly popped up an idea. “What if we get the inexpensive flight tickets to Singapore and go there during the week when the races are due?”

Hubby answered me back, “And where would you watch the races?”

I answered back, “From the hotel windows, like what they do at Monaco.” In the Monaco Grand Prix, people watch from the hotel balconies. Some even watch from the deck of their luxurious yachts.

So I started to wonder what else can be seen from hotel balconies like maybe Las vegas hotels where one can savor the sights and sounds of this vibrant place.

Not to go somewhere far, the view of the Manila Bay sunsets from those building along Roxas Blvd. must be fascinating too.

Back to the Singapore Grand Prix topic, just when this event is just so near, I really wish my boys would be able to watch a race like this, I am sure it is going to be a dream come true for them. On that note, I think I need to get some very good earplugs for my son because he does not enjoy the sound of revving engines

The Eating Club did it again. Cookie, Chats, Lady Cess, Wenchie and Lynn. No, we did not participate in a bank heist nor planned to rule the world

Last Thursday night we again met for a working dinner. Perhaps our husbands are wondering why we ever meet.

To just eat together? To discuss about the latest trends from shoes to clothes to discount home theater seating to furnitures? Do we meet so we can talk about our children? We don’t have to really have to, we read about these in each others’ blogs. We even Plurk about it.

We just enjoy each other’s company, is all.

We tried going somewhere near since it was a school day (or is it night) when we met. We met at the Fish & Co in TriNoma.

Cookie and I were able to taste their sampler food when we went to the Spot Pass Bloggers Food Trip in TrinNoma last summer.

We had fruit shake for our drinks, combination of several fruits in the concoction.

Then we had this: Baked Mussels.

What can I say? These baked mussels are exactly one of the reasons why we wanted to go to Fish & Co.

Fish and fries. The other reason why we thought of going back to Fish & Co.

Seafood pizza? Shrimp pizza? Not sure what this is called, please let me know if you know. The dough was different, not the usual thick of thin crust dough but a dough that is like puffed dough or more like a croissant. Uniquely yummy.

Creamy seafood pasta which I forgot what its called.

I had fun and I definitely look forward to more of these

Thanks, Lynn for waiting with me until hubby arrived.

Some people that I know of are curious about me as a blogger.

They ask me lots of questions on how to be one, a blogger that is.

They ask me how come I have my own dot com. They ask me about web hosting details and articles to read, mostly how-to articles, getting started articles and frequently asked questions about blogging.

Those who are really eager to have their own dot com even ask where I get my web hosting services and how much does one have to pay for web hosting services provider. They of course, have to know the different web host ratings so that they can choose which rates apply to them and their needs.

I tell those who ask me, mostly friends, that anyone can be a blogger. The need to express one’s thoughts and feelings is a good thing. It is also a good venue for them to not just rant and rave but to share life lessons that they have learned, wonderful experiences worth sharing and even places they have visited.

There is so much to blog about and I am glad that I was able to start blogging when I did.

We were supposed to go to a car show yesterday afternoon before going to church. But it rained and the kids didn’t want to go anywhere anymore. We weren’t even able to go to church.

Hubby just changed the themes in my two other blogs GreenBucks1 and Greenbucks2.

I also took some photos outside because I couldn’t resist the color green due to the rains we have been having the past few weeks.

I hope every one got rested during the weekend. Have a great week!

Every Saturday, participants posts photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is WRINKLED.

The photo below was a part of a post I wrote in this blog a few months ago. The photo was a part of the storybook entitled “The Magic Train”

The Land of Sweets where the trees are cotton candies and gumdrops and lemon drops are all over the ground. Here, the cotton candy trees have wrinkled paper on them.

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One time, I left an orange in the fridge of my SIL. The orange I managed to put on the side of the door. Since their fridge was having some cooling problems, this was what I got:

The fruit had ice crystals when I got it. It was hard and wrinkled and very, very cold I felt my hands burning on too much coldness.

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I love the moon, maybe because even if this was already explored by men, it still remains mysterious in in many different ways.

Below is a photo of the moon which I have been dreaming of capturing for a long time. I finally did, after I got the camera that blogging bought

Does this look like those smooth and fine freshwater pearls? I don’t think it is because this moon has some craters on the lower left part of the frame. Wrinkled, if you ask me, like marks on the face.

Why am I fascinated by the moon? Is it because the moon is the natural ruler of the sign Cancer, which is my Zodiac sign? I do not subscribe to this belief but I do know that the moon is one of the most mysterious heavenly bodies out there since it is the one nearest our planet

Have a great weekend everyone! Its gonna be another three-day weekend for us here in the Philippines because Monday is a holiday

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