Have you been to the Book Fair?
No. But I want to go.
Yes, you should. Take the kids too. It’s great for them to select their own books.
Oh I encourage them to read. I buy them story books and have the nanny read to them when they come from school.
But why don’t you read to them? It’s a wonderful bonding tool. Right before bed time. They will always remember those special moments.
Oh hahaha I do tell them stories in Arabic. I make things up mostly as I go along. But it’s mostly out of my head.
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She realizes that reading is good for them. But she delegates the task to someone else. In the end, does it matter who reads to your young child?
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What if they start reading ‘Jassad’?
i like your thinking JEsus.
Who is “they”, Jesus?
The kids, if they’re allowed to select the books they want.
Have you gotten your hands on an issue yet?
I haven’t looked for it. Perhaps I’ll find a stray issue somewhere..?
heheeh good luck :p
just for you guys, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJDuZIcQ34
How the hell did they get me on film?!
sssssuuuubbbbbbbriiiiseeee you on camera
So that’s what Jesus looks like?
Very close. ONLY difference is I wear brown pants with my ghutrah instead of black
She is quiet, the last weeks, my Sheherazade .
Why, Fons?
I do not hear you so often in recent weeks . . .
so tell me
You’re right, dear Fons. I have had a falling out with the Boudoir. We are somewhat on more formal terms and gone is the spontaneity.
I want to spend more time on “creating” and simple posting links pushes me further into frustration. I do it but I it wasn’t in the original plan.
painful
distressing
hurtful
sore straitened
embarrassing awkward troublesome
nasty inconvenient stressful worrisome .
I have a falling out to.For four times a comment is not publicised.
For 5 times by now .
painful distressing
Thanks for letting me know Fons your comments were in Spam box for reason
And the Reason is …
nice colleagues ?
good organisation ?
On a more serious note, I think that this whole nanny thing is one of our biggest problems. Childhood is a very sensitive period where one basically learns his/her culture, and when a nanny reads to the children instead of the mother then they’re learning the nanny’s culture, not the mother.
the traditional Gulfite or at least the traditional Kuwaiti will no longer be perhaps as soon as the next generation.
The new Kuwaiti will be an amalgamation of cultureless, mass produced, consumerist, generic entities unless some serious soul searching is done to sift the through this tsunami of new social and cultural mores.
You’re sounding uncharacteristically negative
But hey, I totally agree with you. Something has to be done or the new generation will face a huge problem.