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Perempuan Masa Kini, antara Harapan dan Kenyataan.

Perempuan itu ketika bekerja dan sudah berkeluarga, terlebih ketika mempunyai anak, akan selalu ditanya, "Bagaimana bagi waktunya antara keluarga dan pekerjaan?" Laki-laki apakah dihadapkan pada pertanyaan yang sama? Oh, tentu tidak. Padahal laki-laki juga banyak yang berkeluarga dan mempunyai anak. Mengapa mereka tidak ditanyakan pertanyaan yang sama? Tanggung jawab mengurus anak dan keluarga terkesan menjadi tanggung jawab tunggal seorang perempuan. Sedangkan laki-laki cukup sampai urusan nafkah keluarga saja, sisanya menjadi urusan perempuan. Benarkah demikian? Mengapa yang terjadi masyarakat kita adalah pandangan yang seperti ini dan diamini oleh seluruh pihak. Perempuan bicara rasa lelah mengurus anak dan rumah itu, terlebih sambil bekerja dianggap biasa. Sudah seharusnya demikian. Ulala, capeknya. Jeritan hati para perempuan tidak didengar, hanya karena dianggap ya memang sudah seharusnya, perempuan urus anak dan rumah.  Capek gak sih jadi "kuat". ...
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Stimulate Logical Maths for Kids Day 7 (Learning Counting 1-10 in English)

After my 3 years old son can count 1-10 well in Indonesian. I introduce him to count 1-10 in English. This time I introduce him on regular way. Just by putting my finger on number 1 and said loud ONE, then on number 2 and said loud TWO, until number 10. But for my 5 years old daughter, I made her to said it loud in English when we count 1-10 while playing hide and seek. So the younger will hear and hopefully notice that it is still counting 1-10 but in other languange.
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Stimulate Logical Maths for Kids Day 6 (Learning Concept of Much vs Little while Playing Water)

After we know the concept of full and empty. Then I will introduce to them the concept of much and little still with playing with the sand and the water. Just fill it almost full then we said it is much then throw it until almost empty then we said it little. So simple and easy right. So many logical math we can stimulate just by playing with sand and water.
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Stimulate Logical Math for Kids Day 5 (Learning Full and Empty Concept while Playing with Sand)

My children loved to play with sand especially if we go to the beach. By playing with sand we can stimulate logical math and introducing them the concept of full and empty. Just by filling the little basket with sand until the top, we let them know it is full. Then when we dropped all of the sand from the little basket, we let them know it is empty. Then we can change the sand with water. The concept is the same. Finally the children know the concep of full and empty by playing with fun.
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Stimulate Logical Math for Kids Day 4 ( Learning Fraction while Eating Pizza)

My 5 years old daughter had already learn fraction in her kindergarden. A half, a quarter and others. So in order to know that she is really understand the concept about fraction, I want to test her in a fun way. I took her to the pizza store. I asked the chef to cop the pizza into 8 slice. It means 1/8 for each slice. Before we eat, I asked her which one is a half then a quarter then 1/8. Voila, she gave the right answer. After that I give her a little knowledge about addition fraction. 1 slice means 1/8 then 2 slice means 2/8. Then I compare the 2 slice with the 1/4 (a quarter) of a whole pizza. I said it is the same size, right? She looked at it then said yes. So I tell her 1/8+1/8=2/8=1/4. Then I give another example for two quarter also same with the one half just by looking the pizza. She looks understand. By using the real pizza to learn fraction, it can stimulate the logical math with fun.
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Stimulate Logical Math for Kids Day 3 (Counting cookies)

My 3 years old son loved to eat cookies. He prefer bread and cookies sometimes compare to rice. So I think, I can used the cookies to stimulate logical math for him. When he asked for cookies, then I aske him, "How many cookies do you want?". At first, he can not answer. Then I give him one in his right hand and one in his left hand. After that, I said, "You have two cookies, one here and two there." Then he can say, "I want to have 2 cookies, Mom." Lovely, he knew the logical math of number 2. Another time he said, "I want to have 1 cookie, Mom." So it means he had already known the difference between 1 and 2.
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Stimulate Logical Math for Kids Day 2 (Singing 1-10 with fingerstyle)

My younger son, 3 years old had already go to preschool on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for about 1 hour and 30 minutes for the break. During the preschool, the teacher introduce the number with the song plus a fingerstyle. So the finger make the shape like the number from 1 until 10 and the song also sing the shape of the number. For example the song said number 2 like the duck, number 9 like the ballon fly etc. I am not remember all of them, but my son like the song very much and usually sing the song at home. Sing a song definitely can stimulate logical math with fun.
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Stimulate Logical Math for Kids Day 1 (Counting 1 to 10 by playing Hide and Seek)

My kids loved to play hide and seek. The younger one is still 3 years old. He liked to run either outside the house or inside the house. We used to play hide and seek inside the house, because it is safer for us. The older one had been 5 years old. She can count until 100. So it is a piece of cake for her to count 1 until 10 when we play hide and seek. But it was a challenge for the younger to count 1 until 10. So while playing hide and seek, I asked the younger one to count 1 until 10 with closing his eyes, after that he have to look for us while we were hiding. He usually miss the counting. He always jumped the count from 3 to 6. He missed the 4 and 5. Hopefully by regularly playing hide and seek together, he can count 1 until 10 without missing the number 4 and 5. So playing hide and seek can stimulate logical math with fun, right?
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Growing Reading Interest for Children Day 10 (Make Your Children Re-tell The Story to You)

You must be bored when you had read the books for your children more than 10 times. Your children perhaps had already know the story but still want to be read it by you, because he still can not read. My children still 3 yo. So, why do not ask your children to tell the story to you using their own words. He will loved it. But we have to pay attention to him when he tell the story to us. Sometimes we can also ask the picture to him if he skip the picture when telling the story to us. It will boost his language intellegence as well as his self esteem.
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Growing Reading Interest for Children Day 9 (Not Only Read the Book but Tell the Story in It)

To read and to tell a story is quite different. When telling a story, you must have the energy and blend with the story being told. Intonation plays a big role here. Especially when your children wants you to read it 3-4 times in a row, maintain the energy is quite challenging. You have to read it in a different version each time. So in my experience, I'm not reading every single words there in the books but I used my own words every time I read it in the second, third, forth and so on times.
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Growing Reading Interest for Children Day 8 (Let Your Children Choose the Book)

When I go to the bookstore or a library, just let my son to choose and pick the books he like. Because when he choose it, it will become his favorite book and it will be read not only one time but reread over and over again. It will grow his interest on book and not getting bored with it. Eventhough he still can not read now, loving books that I want him to have. So by the time he can read, he not only just can read but loved to read because he had already loved the books.
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