Anya : 3 years 1 month
Anya’s now three years old and it’s always interesting to see her progress and development over the past three years.
She used to speak rather softly (and I had to frequently ask her to speak up). And now, she’s so loud that I need to frequently ask her to lower her volume!
Overall Anya’s the type who prefers to not approach and start a conversation with strangers. In a way this is good I guess (for ‘safety’ reasons), but to me this also means that she’s rather less ‘proactive’ when it comes to interacting with new people.
I realise it’s part of her temperament, but it doesn’t mean she’s ‘stuck’ with it. I believe we parents can always help and encourage the child to continually explore and develop their characters, eg. by creating opportunities for a rather timid child to see for herself that she in fact ‘can do it’.
Like when we go to the shops or supermarkets, I let Anya be the one who ‘pays’. It took a while for her to get used to it in the beginning. But now that she’s so used to it, she often ‘insists’ to be the one who gives the money to the cashier / taxi driver / fruit seller. And I can really see the twinkle in her eyes afterwards. It’s as if she knows in her heart that she’s accomplished ‘something’.
Personally, I think it’s important for each one of us to continually know and learn about one’s own strength and weakness.
Because only then we can further develop one’s strength and progressively work on one’s ‘weakness’.
I believe we’re never stagnant. We’re created by GOD and are given so much potential that we should never stop learning and changing towards the better.
And I sure hope that while I myself continue to learn, I also can teach my kids to always look within and change towards the better.
To continually be a blessing to those around.
