I'm no mean mother

Some of you think I've got a mean streak in me just because I told you I regale my daughter with newspaper stories of car accidents. You can't have been more wrong.

I mean, just turn to the newspaper any day, what nice, wholesome stories do you think I can tell my 7 year old girl? About how Durai gets charged? About the elections? About why her Ah Mah's HDB block will not get upgrading? Perhaps the newspaper is not a good source of stories for young innocent minds but I beg to differ. I think there's no harm in letting her hear real stories of people having accidents, or suffering, or dying. Of course, I censor the gory bits and just let her have the gist of the story, coupled with a few moralistic coda about how she shouldn't get a boyfriend who rides a motorbike (a lot of them end up as pulp on the expressway), or what she must ask the nice gor-gor who asks her to donate money to a charity (like what % of the money goes to the real people in need).

Of course, the stories that get published in the newspapers are usually sad, horrible ones. So my daughter's mind is fed with these doses of reality from her enthusiastic mother. No point letting her believe that life is all Snow White and happily ever after nonsense right?

I do confess, I have a hidden agenda to these newspaper stories sessions I have with my girl. I actually want her to realise that the newspapers is a rich source of stories and ideas. And hopefully, she'll want to pick one up soon and read them herself. It's tough to be an English teacher's daughter huh?

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Happened to read another teacher's blog about what she thinks her students were doing when she gave them work. Read this.

Then read what the teacher was actually doing.

Quite hilarious if you ask me. Perhaps I should bring a laptop to class when I give you work to do in future.