Doing Her Work

I've learned to accept the fact that every child is different. With this in mind, I try not to expect that I will get the same reaction or the same results with each of my girls. Regarding school work for instance, I've seen the difference between Nadine and Raya's learning capacities. I've written about this in another blog entry, Teacher Mommy.

So with Alyssa, I wasn't sure what to expect with how she would handle school. But maybe because she sees the older girls sit down and do their homework or study for exams, she in turn, would like to do the same. Lately, she would insist on doing her "work." Her teacher sent writing exercises months before so the children can practice writing their names. Now Alyssa's name is the longest among the 4 girls and I cringed when I saw her writing assignment.

I never forced her to finish up the writing exercises. Same days she would do it, others no. But I do tell her that when she starts writing she should finish through. Slowly, the number of writing pages would lessen as we would submit these to the teacher as soon as she's done with it.

The past 3 days though, she has been ganado or overly excited to "do her work." As soon as her movie is done or she has taken a bath or finished playing with her toys, she would announce, I would like to "do my work" now, Mommy. I would then ask her to get a pencil and I would give her a page of her writing exercise and she would proceed diligently, stopping only to show me that she has finished a line of her name. :-)


I am amazed how different she is with her sisters. It took a while for Nadine to know how to write her letters and moreso Raya. But like, I said, they are all different and I like the surprises I get. Today, after finishing her page, she announce to everyone, "I love school!" :-) Yes, she is an adorable little one. Hope she won't be growing up too soon.