Friso Gold "Our Today Moments" Contest..

Hi everyone..

It was a long weekend holiday for us sebab my kiddos school closed on Friday. So mommy and papa automatically kena apply leave as well. We've planned few activities actually, konon nak pergi Farm in the City bagai, turned up the lil bambam not so well and weather pun tak mengizinkan. Panas sgt. So we had indoor activity instead. Apalagi Lego Movie lah! Best part the 2 boys duduk diam sampai habis sebab dua-dua a big fan of Lego! 

Speaking of activities with kids, are you aware of Friso Gold's current contest - "Our Today Moments"? Yeap, iklan contest pun selalu keluar dekat tv kan? My kids love that Friso Gold advertisement so much. Friso Gold is currently promoting and encouraging parents to spend quality time with our children and create great moments to be remembered when they grow up. They also remind parents to put aside their daily to-dos (such as your office workload, household chores or your business that are never ending) and live the moment with our children.

Talk about the contest, I'm pretty sure you gonna love this contest! It's super easy and fun. All you need to do is to list down what is the one great thing you want to do with your kids and never had the chance to realize it. Doesn't matter if it is small or big, Friso Gold will help you achieve it. *what?? seriously?? omgomg. I want to join this tooooo*

As simple as 5 steps to be the winner of the contest!

How to participate?

1.  Purchase any participating Friso Gold product – Frisomum Gold, Friso Gold 3 or Friso Gold 4 (any sizes).

2. Tell us one special experience (big or small) that you have always want to do together with your child but have not been able to and why.

3. Complete your personal particulars.

4. Attach proof of purchase (original Friso Gold scoop from any participating product) to contest form.

5. Mail to PO Box:  Friso Gold “Our Today Moments” Contest, P.O.Box 3202, 47507 Subang Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Stand a chance to win:

a.  Early Bird Prize x 100: Entry tickets (2 adults & 2 kids) to Legoland Malaysia worth RM540 each

b. Grand Prize x 100: A special experience for the parent and child worth up to RM10,000 each. 

Contest period :

13th January 2014 - 28th February 2014

As parents, we always want to do the best for our children, right? Doing activities together and surprise them on their special days or occasions. Nothing more precious than seeing how happy they are. Dalam masa yang sama pun, mommy n papa tompang enjoy sekali. Tahu je lah kan, banyak tempat menarik sekarang ni. We really hope to do more fun things this year, visit exciting places as we did last year..

Boat riding at Tasik Kenyir Terengganu and teaching them to appreciate nature.

Horse riding

Ice skating short class

We also had fun at Kidzania and Legoland as surprise presents for their birthdays..

If you ask me now, what I wish to do with my kids…these are the places we hope to visit..

Legoland Hotel Malaysia

They are big  fans of Frozen and Olaf! Teringin nak main salji..

And last but not least, Adam once requested me to visit here!

 Owh not so soon Adam..one fine day InsyaAllah.

So mommy and daddy, do you have anything special that you think you want to do with your kids? Share with them now. Visit their Friso Gold facebook and website today! Hurry up. Only few weeks left! All the best!

Key Words with Peter & Jane at FM Lil' Shop ..

Hi everyone..

It's been a while since my last update on Adam's reading progress. Sorry again for the delay in updating the progress. But Alhamdulillah, last year we managed to finish lesson plan on Adam's reading activity. So for this year target, I'll more focus on his phonics - words building and segmenting. Will share it soon. Owh its including reading in Malay as well. We already started on Siri Bacalah Anakku too.

Still remember my last year entry on how I started to use Key Words with Peter and Jane series to Adam Mikael? Check it out here! Alhamdulillah, Adam already at 3rd Series of P&J, which already good for a 5yo boy. Great job dear, mommy so proud of you =)

Some of my personal collections for Adam reading progress.

Speaking of P&J series, I've received few comments and requests from my blogger friends and friends to have these old but effective series to our humble shop as well. *and I pun tak sangka my entry on P&J previously get lots of reviews* Alhamdulillah, Allah has made a smooth journey for us to be reseller for these series. 

Proudly welcoming Peter & Jane Series to FM Lil Shop.

A lil bit introduction for those who not familiar with this series..

Peter & Jane Series which has been more than 70 years in the market have been using by all parents around the world to help on reading. 

We can start to use this book (the first serie) to as early as 2 years old toddlers.

Yup, the are more on sight reading in the beginning..

But after few series and your kids already started kindy (and learned phonics), this book are helping alot on improving the sight words (list of words yg tak boleh di eja menggunakan konsep phonics).

Overall Peter and Jane Series are from Serie 1 until Serie 12.

Each serie with 3 level a, b and c.

As introduction to our follower at instgram, we had special pre-order on the Mini Book Set with Peter & Jane flashcards..

Mini Book Set consists of Serie 1 & 2 (6 books) in mini box for easy storage and handling.

We create this special set with 50 flashcards to help children on the first 100 key words.

Price for Peter Jane Mni Box: RM 58, flashcards: RM 22

Besides that, we also sell a complete series of Peter and Jane for parents who wants to make early investment for their children.

The distributor has come out with special designed box to place 36 books of P&J with 1 box of flashcards.

They also has come out with special teaching guide fro parents or teacher on how to use these series.

Retail price for this complete set is RM 420 exclude postage.

We sell it at RM 390 for FREE postage within Sem M'sia.

Alhamdulillah, in 2 weeks time we did received overwhelming response on this series..

For those who interested to purchase visit www.earlylearningshop.my or 

whatsapp Nadia at 019 315 4995

Feel free to visit our humble instagram shop @earlylearningshopmy or click at this link!

Thanks!

Our Today Moments..

Hola mommies !! *wave* Sorry for a looooong silence =(

It's already 2nd week in 2014 and hopefully its not too late for me to wish everyone a blissful New Year 2014. I believe everyone has already set their resolutions for this year. All the best mommies! Same goes to myself, I've created list of new year resolutions every year and over the past 2 - 3 years, all my resolutions were more towards my family specially my kids. Honestly, one of my main resolutions this year also to be more focused on my kiddos early learning (extended learning at home after school session) and I wish I could spend more quality time with my family by having great activities together soon. 2013 itself marked an awesome year for me. It went by without me actually planning on that, and I was so thankful to Him and so blessed with what I have now. 

Back to the resolution on spending quality time with our children, I believed all parents want the best for their children too. Ever since I was involved in online biz related to early childhood learning, I met and mingled with alot mommies who sometimes claimed they don't have enough time with their kids and do not know what should they do to support their kids early education at home. You don't have to be worried mommies as I was in the same shoes as all of you in few years back. Being a full time working mom, *and even all other working mommies too*, we have to juggle between work/career with family, especially when you have growing up kids that really need your full attention after work. Yeap, it's so stressful. Until at one stage, I was easily caught up in daily to-dos things and acted like a robot mom! The only things I know that time is to have quality time with my kids is during weekend *although weekend you still have to struggle with house chores too aight*

It was a waste of time thinking on the past few years where I only thought that my elder son only need to start his early childhood learning when he go to preschool at 5 years old! My biggest mistake in my life! And I promised to myself it won't be happened to my next kiddos. Alhamdulillah, my biggest target last year to help Adam on reading, writing and reciting Surah achieved. *proud mom* He can now performed Shalat with proper recitations. He can also read a few English books and his writing improved alots. What I did last year, was a very big changes to my life and my daily routine specially on weekdays. We had at least 20-30 minutes daily activities that we called as "family quality time" at night after bath and dinner, where my hubs and myself will focus on our kiddos learning including reading, writing and playing with their toys before they went to sleep. 

20 minutes a day for reading..

Helping my kiddo on spelling..

Learn on writing...

What I had experienced in the past few years was not unusual. Many mothers faced the same experience of juggling with work commitments and being a great mom at the same time. I had a chance to participate in survey and interview conducted by Friso Gold recently with regards to sentiments of Malaysian mom. I found it a great tool for me to benchmark where I am now and contribute to the findings. There are a few things which I can related and totally agree. For example, the statement that more than half of the working mums surveyed  feel she does not spend enough time with her children, which is so true for me! The survey also shows a higher proportion of working mothers (about half of them) are feeling the tension to balance between work and family, agreeing that they don't have enough time in their daily life/routine and they have sometimes missed out their children's developments. Some them also do not know what activities are suitable for their children to enhance the kids' development. At this point many parents leave it all to school to teach their kids. I totally disagree with this! I trust that parents are the best teachers for our kids, and we should play a big role in ensuring the right learning development for them through activities at home and after school which I found can create stronger parent-child bond too. The best part is, my kids are calling me 'teacher-mommy' too! lol

Brotherhood..

After all, with the ever-rising cost of living in the city , it does not allow most mums to quit their jobs and be a full time stay-at-home moms!Yet, this is not the reason we can overlook on our children needs. Its all about how we able to manage our time and prioritize quality time with them. Its hard to measure the quality time we spend with our kids daily especially when we only consider it something must be only related to learning perhaps. Think of it in the another way. It will turn to sweet moments when we try to utilize short period of time we have daily as a quality time. As I do not have a helper at home *yes my husband helps me alot in doing the daily house chores and taking care of our children - he contributed to the % as well hehehe* I love to create bonding moments with my kids by encouraging them to help us on our daily and weekend household chores such as hanging up and folding the clothes, clearing up their toys and sometimes doing cleaning. Yeap, these also teach them on practical life as well. 

Being a working mom or stay at home mom, our biggest challenge are still the same in providing the best for our kids. Let us create the moments we have today and turn into beautiful moments for our kids to remember when they grown up. 

Do visit Friso facebook Fan Page *click here* to know more about “Our Today Moments” campaign and survey results as said earlier. They also share good tips on having a quality time with our children too. All the best mommies!