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Parenting vs Grandparenting

Mrs. jigg — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:10:21 +0000

A grandmother's job is to spoil her grandchild.

jigg’s parents have never told jigg that they love him; but they tell their grandson (jigg’s nephew) they love him all the time.

Home Inspection

Mrs. jigg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:46:45 +0000

Never underestimate how loud Chinese people can be.

The one time I don’t watch cat videos on YouTube…

Mrs. jigg — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:36:03 +0000

jigg and I stayed over at my mom’s place over Christmas weekend. Because it was a tiny apartment, all of us had to wait our turn to use the bathroom in the morning. As I was getting out and turning the bathroom over to jigg, he said to me, “Go click ‘replay’ to watch the video currently on the computer. It’s hilarious!”

I had no clue what he was watching but I went to the living room and did what he suggested anyway.

The video turned out to be a YouTube clip about the world champion in masturbation. My mom then decided to sit down next to me around the 2:06 part of the video and asked me what I was watching – right when the guy was browsing through anime porn and fake rubber vajayjays.

I didn’t want to be suspicious by suddenly closing the window so I just casually let the video finish and then clicked on something more PG, like a frog playing that bug game on the iPhone.

Family Planning

Mrs. jigg — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:08:34 +0000

jigg and I during one of our family planning discussions. It's hard dealing with first world problems!

I’m not making up the stat for the cost of raising a kid (click here for source).

Philosophy on how to raise kids

Mrs. jigg — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:32:59 +0000

Although jigg and I don’t plan on having children for a while, we have already began formulating our united strategy on how to raise our kids. We’ve discussed everything from Western versus Eastern style of parenting (Read Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom) to what the most advantageous month of the year is to give birth (Read Outliers).

I believe that kids learn to manipulate people and situations to their advantage from an early age. For example, babies know crying gets them attention, so they learn to fake cry to get more attention even if nothing is wrong. Or they purposely misbehave to get things their way. This is something jigg and I are determined not to let our kids win at.

I learned alot from observing other people’s parenting. For example, my mother in law was babysitting our one and a half year old nephew this past week. The little brat already figured out how to walk all over her! We kept telling her that she needs to be stern when reprimanding him and NOT smile or give him a hug immediately after. But she doesn’t listen, and as a result, our nephew just ignores her every time she tries to discipline him. Or he cries when he doesn’t get things his way.

We were at a family BBQ over the weekend and our aunt was telling us how hard it was to feed her three-year old grandson sometimes – because the child needs to be coaxed during meals to swallow his food. Upon hearing this, jigg and I both suspected that the child knows he will get extra attention from NOT eating, so he does it on purpose!

jigg: If the kid doesn’t want to eat, then stop force feeding him! I’m sure if he’s hungry, he’d eat whatever you give him.

Aunt: I don’t have the heart to do that. What if the kid starves?!

jigg: I’m sure he’d come to you or cry to get your attention when he’s hungry.

Aunt: Kids sometimes don’t know these things! It’s unsettling to even let him get hungry. When you have kids of your own, you’d understand.

jigg: A kid who doesn’t know when he’s hungry – that’s just crazy! That’s basic instincts. Even animals know this. If my kid doesn’t know how to cry when he’s hungry, then he deserves to starve…

This went on for a good five minutes until the Aunt concluded that young couples like us just don’t understand. I told jigg that I want to be a Tiger Mom and be absolutely strict with our kids, but he called BS and said I’d turn into a marshmallow.