i love to eat, here's what i do in Corey Kitchen

I love to eat!! and i find cooking and baking a good form of de-stressing (but the cleaning up does get my goat).  I have another blog which i set up a few years ago to "file" my recipes. I've now imported those, plus the few that i have in this blog into my Corey Kitchen Blog. Do have a look and yes, I do welcome comments and queries :)

How we take reading and writing for granted

i was trying to enroll my son into a international school, and there were assessment tests to go for, and my boy didn't do so well. reason being: he can hardly read and write. he will be turning 6 in a few months time.

i am not being biased here, my son is brillant, he has been tested and has an IQ of a genius, but he can barely read and write. my fault. he hated writing and reading when we enrolled him into pre-school the year he turned four years old, so i relented and didn't push him in his writing and spelling homework at all. in fact, i just didn't bother letting him do his homework. thus, my child cannot read and write, and he now have problems learning his lessons in school as he cannot read the instructions given in his lessons.

i am now going to apply the Dolch lists intensively and am hoping that his super power memory will help him out here. I have created a blog solely to monitor and track his progress on his learning to read and write with this method. please wish us Godspeed. many thanks :)

FB, off.

I've always been a Facebook addict. posting, liking, sharing, commenting, the works. with the on-coming elections, my fb timeline is filled with lots of negativity, and it's bringing me down. I have to admit that I did contribute to those in the week before, but now it has really put me off social media. not only fb, but social media platforms where there's a lot of local content in general. I do peek into Instagram once a day or so, but not with the intensity of before.

i now enjoy reading on the kindle app on my iDevices, researching on ways to help my son read and write better, as he is really weak in that area. and also to look for recipes to fuel one of my passion in life, culinary experiments and adventures, as I really love to eat!

so yeah, facebook, off.