Mervyn Hoe: My Daily Happenings

I just visited my cousin-in-law and so happy to see the new born child! It's really amazing to see how actually God can create lovely gifts for us! And to mix and match DNA from a father and mother. And have so much hair! Ha! Last week I also heard of another of my friend's brother, who had twins from their same sex marriage. It will be their second and third child! I'm not sure whose sperm was used, but it's just so amazing that how we can pro-create babies directly and indirectly. That's a great news for them and the family. One thing for sure is that my friend's mum is very happy for his son! Babies do bring a family closer as it actually takes everyone's love and actions to make it easier for new born parents. No one taught us to be parents. Come to think of it. We just learned about sexual organs in Secondary two and know that pre- martial sex is totally unacceptable in civic and moral lessons. And when we go Upper secondary school and tertiary educ...

It's pleasant that at times my children are well behaved, "angelic" at times. For Kate, she would laugh at things when we laugh. For Josh, he would be a gentleman by saying "Thank you Daddy / Mummy" when offered something to him. The otherwise happens too. Children between 2-4 years old do have their fair share of tantrums as now, they are in their explorative nature, testing grounds and their limits. The more '"NO"s we mention, all the more these little adults want to do the otherwise. And at times, Josh will be unhappy. What do I do? Of course I will be unhappy and what we have read is there are a few rules to tackle it. I have made a few mistakes there and then. I'm of course fine tuning. Rule Number One ----------------------- Never shout or beat your child. Speak to him and ask softly, "What is the matter?" and if can, distract him (not using iPhone if possible). And bring him away from the situation and talk to him pri...

Well, wanna share with you that currently, we are adjusting our lifestyle with our daughter. All children have demands and now, both of our children have their separate demands but they have one common one: breastmilk. Now our daughter is 6 days old and she is sensitive to the breasts! What do I mean? During day 3, at night she rejected the breasts totally even though she was hungry. And the next day, Eve called the Breastfeeding association and found out that it was probably due to Josh drinking it and his saliva was on the breast. My daughter felt that there was a difference and that's the reason for it. Now, we would wipe first before feeding her. Amazing! Yesterday was really quite hectic. Slept at 6am. Can you believe it? My daughter was awake and Josh was asleep since 12am. Then Josh woke up at 3.30am. That's when things are jumbled up! Josh wanted Eve to nurse(this was the normal routine before my daughter was born). However, his sucking is quite hard on Eve and after 15...