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I drop off and pick up the kids from school. Normally when I pick them up, I always ask how their day was and what they learned. Demi’s answers ranges from saying good, to repeating what I say, to plain ol’ gibberish. Morayo on the other hand is able to give clear answers and it was always the same response I got EVERYTIME… “I learned my ABC’s”. Now, there really wasn’t an issue with that answer until we began to put letters in front of her at home and she was totally clueless of what they were. I wondered if they were they just singing the ABC song at school or if they were being taught letter recognition. This got pretty frustrating so I requested a meeting with the director at her school to go over details of the daily curriculum beyond what I received every morning via email.

Hubby and I began teaching her at home. We used all sorts of methods from YouTube videos, flashcards, DVDs, to us sitting down with her and using the white board in hubby’s home office. We took turns teaching her. Demi wasn’t so much included because plain and simple, he just wasn’t there yet. It is still a struggle with him but I hope somehow he is retaining something. There was a period where for about a straight month they watched nothing but leap frog DVDs. We totally cut out Dora, Sofia, Mickey Mouse, you name it, they didn’t watch it. When they got back from school in the evenings and during the weekends Leap Frog was on on repeat. They even began to ask for their numbers and letters videos. LOL! I started feeling bad for them after a while. Left to hubby he was going to keep them watching only the educational videos.

With time things began to catch on and MoMo could recognize her letters. I still had my frustrations with the her school and sometime in November, I was having a casual conversation about it with my boss who has a daughter the same age as MoMo but 2 months older. He mentioned his daughter could write her first and last name and had been doing it for WEEKS! He said he wasn’t responsible because he didn’t teach her and neither did his wife. In other words, she learned at school! He even recorded her doing it and showed it to me the next day! I was hot for a couple of reasons! For one, we were on a paid waiting list at that particular school and had heard nothing back almost after a year (btw both her and Demi are now at that school as of this year!!). For two, I got even more annoyed with her present school.

Long story short, before Christmas day last year, MoMo was able to spell and write her first name. We are now working on her last name. I recorded a video of her spelling her name out as she wrote it on the white board and I showed it to my boss who made jokes about what methods I used to get her to learn that quickly but was nonetheless very impressed.

 It took work on our part. It makes me so happy when she colors a picture now and she is able to write her name on the paper! She will be proudly signing her name on every birthday/anniversary/Valentine card that goes out to grandparents, aunties, uncles, and cousins this year!


So proud of our baby girl!

A Christmas Tree she colored during the holiday with her name written on it. Absolutely love her coloring creativity might I add!

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