媽~

牛牛~媽~咗媽媽一兩聲呀！！！！

但係，再叫佢~媽~時，佢又~爸爸~ ！


不過呢，呢兩日牛牛已經識得講返~奶奶~，又會~波波~，~謝謝~咁，已經好大進展喇！

加油！

依依不捨

每朝都會同兩兄弟落樓玩吓，今日，玩完本來諗住叫工人姨姨陪牛牛玩多陣，爸爸媽媽同哥哥走先，點知，牛牛一路跟住我地，唔願byebye

一路跟到平台電梯大堂，仲想跟埋入lift!
睇住佢個眼神，好似好想跟埋嚟咁..

好可憐~
好唔捨得爸爸媽媽同哥哥！



遲d就到牛牛返學架喇！唔駛扁咀~~

project week

呢個星期係project week, 唔駛做功課！

問恐龍仔，今期主題係乜呀？
佢話：味道！有甜、酸、苦、辣、鹹。

小朋友要帶甜同酸味生果各一回校，問恐龍仔，其他小朋友帶咗乜呢？
佢答：都有人帶青蘋果，無人帶香蕉！

講咗一大輪，然後發現，蘋果同香港仲响書包！仲乜唔攞出嚟呢？！

突然，恐龍仔細細聲同媽媽講：我好唔開心呀.. 無功課做呀！

building blocks

牛牛好少玩玩具

佢多數搞吓呢樣，搞吓嗰樣

再爬上爬落！

但呢日，用咗超過十分鐘砌車仔！

馬頭涌官立小學 (福馬)

早排收到通告，福馬邀請友好幼稚園嘅小朋友去參觀學校，不幸地，兩個細路都病咗，要留响屋企休息，恐龍媽同恐龍爸就如期到場見識見識~

開始，係有小朋友嘅表演，包括藝術體操，中國舞，管樂，同埋管絃樂團嘅演出。
然後，家長可以放低d小朋友，去聽副校長講解學校。

由地下太空禮堂行去6樓活動室，經過每層樓都有唔同嘅口號/標語，

最特別嘅係地下，有龍虎鎊！

响呢間學校讀書，競爭應該好大！

呢次係恐龍媽第一次聽官津小嘅briefing，好特別，副校只用咗4個字係講教學：「活動教學」，其他時間，就係講課外活動有幾精彩！
課外活動係自費嘅，價錢比出面學平，種類多，而小朋友有好多比賽機會，所有樂器都要入團，要個人學好之外，仲要同人合作。

作為官立學校，「一生一體藝」自然係最早做嘅學校之一，對外有多項比賽經常攞獎，而學校團隊亦攞過教育局俾嘅獎！聽起上嚟，老師真係好努力咁！兩副校亦多次強調，好多名校都鍾意响比賽場上揀卒，好多學生就係咁入到名中學！

副校用咗30分鐘去賣廣告，當然多次用一d大多數人唔係咁發音嘅字詞，e.g. 時間，有d真係從來無聽過日咁講嘅！
之後，恐龍媽問咗一位老師關於功課問題：學校唔著重抄寫功課，多唔多~好難講！一年兩次考試同測驗，測驗係唔計落總分嘅！(真係活動教學咁喎~)
由小三開始，會有潤澤課程俾能力上較好嘅學生，而小四開始會有兩班精英班。

就好似副校一再強調，呢間學校雖然已經50年喇，但一d都唔考，成日聽人講福馬校舍舊，但當日眼見，設計裝飾都幾有心思，無殘嘅感覺！

另外，副校亦多次重申，咁多年以來，自行收年階段係未收過15分嘅學生！如果福馬咁勁，咁紅馬都應該無望！(不過，2011年派位，九龍塘官小有人15分抽到！)

對牛彈琴

哥哥做乜，牛牛都要學，咁哥哥彈琴，牛牛就當然要玩埋一份啦！
但係咁爬上去，好危險咁..

牛牛一於好少理..

呢次係就係成功咗..

但係唔成功嗰d...會痛會流血架！
唉~媽媽睇見牛牛唔停咁爬，好頭痛！已經有兩次失敗紀錄喇！

剪髮記

因為爸爸覺得短髮好牛精，所以恐龍仔d頭髮一路都剪得唔太短，係咁依修吓咁，好快又去剪過！自從7月中搬屋，短短4個月，呢次係第3次揾呢位姐姐剪頭髮喇！

每次，都唔係好定~
第一次，姐姐用說話氹掂佢
第二次，媽媽罰佢數1至200先可以定落嚟
呢次，佢周身郁，郁到打側身坐，然後向後坐，就係咁開始... 定咗落嚟！兩個"師傅"都話未見過咁樣剪髮！但你咪理~ 佢個頭就係無離開過張椅！


剪過哥哥，就到第一次出街剪髮嘅牛牛！

牛牛比哥哥定d，雖然都有郁，但係只係好奇咁周圍望，唔係少少嘢就周身郁！師傅話，牛牛都仲有BB毛，要再留長少少再修先好睇d
牛牛又係.. 好少頭髮！

長洲行

風和日麗嘅一日，媽媽應承咗帶恐龍仔去離島，恐龍仔揀咗去長洲~


媽媽帶完牛牛上playgroup之後，就去咗尖沙咀交收人仔.. 見到天空有好多白鴿，到媽媽攞到相機出嚟.. 鴿鴿就休息喇！

好啦~ 去中環坐船船！途經apple shop... 嘩！駛唔駛咁多人呀？！

恐龍仔幫媽媽睇吓回程嘅時間表~

因為我地坐快船，所以半個鐘多d就到喇！，恐龍仔睇吓海...

我地去咗一間叫張保仔嘅餐廳食嘢，都幾好味~
然後就起行，向張保仔洞出發！
恐龍仔話曬喎... 攞咗媽咪揾傘去玩！

嚟個合照先！


呢間係甜品舖嚟架！佢門口寫滿咗字，恐龍仔好鍾意睇~ 唔肯走！


一路行，終於見到：張保仔路喇！

我地响洞口用$10租咗兩個小電筒，然後入洞... 真係好黑呀！
有d人仔不停話驚....

出返嚟，又有人話要去臭臭！好在附近有個公廁啫~ (好乾淨！)

之後，又落去海邊揾五行石...
俾媽媽見到有人咁撐艇！



可惜..

有人扁哂咀呀！

之後，我地坐番街渡返馬頭，食咗d小食，然後就上船返香港喇！

真係好攰... 不過，又係臨返到屋企要落車先瞓着咗~

返到屋企，恐龍爸影咗d牛牛相，而呢隻嘢，咁啱又係玩...

傘！

「幼稚園學券逃亡潮？」

copy from Ian

「學前教育學券計劃」推出已有四年，但最近接二連三收到不少熱門幼稚園將於下學年退出參與該計劃的消息，不禁聯想起「直接資助計劃」推出後的二分局面。在自由市場定位及用者自負的原則下，莫非教育自主真的非用學費換來不可？到頭來甚麼美其名的十五年免費教育，最後把幼稚園分成參加和不參加學券計劃的分別，又是否另一項會將幼兒教育推至兩極化的政策？

 

面對着近年持續上升的租金、通貨膨漲和幼稚園老師需求的不斷上升，無可避免對幼稚園的營運造成龐大的成本壓力。雖然早前局方有意跟隨整體通漲調整學費上限，但實際上幼稚園成本的升幅遠超整體通漲，這正為多間幼稚園相繼退出學券計劃埋下伏線。

 

另一方面，教育政策與現實需求的不符亦造成部份幼稚園選擇「跳船」，退出參加學券計劃。縱然教育局多年來積極推動愉快學習，讓幼兒在無壓力的情況下上學，但另一方面又積極鼓勵名校轉為直接資助。可惜的是在這環境下，幼兒反而變成從自出娘胎開始便要提早起步，以配合父母為他們五年後的小一面試好好裝備，以求達到非名校不入的目標。

 

很多家長或許會認為，幼稚園不參與學券計劃是一件好事。因為少了限制、多了資源，必定能提供更大空間和課程自主，將現有課程質素提升。但要注意這推論並不是必然成立的，因為大部份退出的幼稚園，現時的學費已處於上限$24,000一年，其實不繼續參加學券可能只為舒解通漲的壓力，家長切勿一廂情願認定退出的幼稚園必會作出重大的改變。

 

由於預計明年將無法在保持於學券計劃的上限範圍內，繼續保持一貫的教學質素，這些幼稚園在別無他法下放棄繼續參與，實在無可厚非。縱使學費的升幅只為扺銷通漲的影響，但就算只是每年一千元的加幅，對原可使用學券的家長來說，卻是一萬七千元的分別（現時每年學券資助為一萬六千元），究竟是否非加不可呢？

 

當然，亦有部份幼稚園確實以提升課程自主性為目標，去爭取較佳的競爭力或加強與學術水平較高的小學函接，而選擇不繼續參加學券計劃。在現實社會中，這是一種很基本的供求關係。由學校提供相應的學習環境去滿足部份家長對普及教育所不能提供的元素。但是，這不正是跟直接資助計劃的方向一樣嗎？

 

想當年在九年免費教育出台前，學校之間就如百家爭鳴的境況。私立學校各有各自的特色，不少有教會背景的學校在有限資源下，為貧苦大衆提供受教育的機會。跟着私校都變成津校，隨着時間流逝，「校本條例」的出現，正是要為繼續留守的津校都跟隨主流環境而行。失去了原本的辦學理念，學校就如失去了靈魂一樣，留下的只有一個一個倒模出來的軀殼。另一邊廂，直接資助的學校在收取政府資助及家長學費的下，打造出一些提供給有經濟能力家庭的「另類選擇」。

 

或許，根本已經沒有人再介意了。但是教育，真的是要用錢才能買到的？

 

難道這就是我們希望教育下一代的價值觀嗎？

幼稚園學券「跳船」名單

Study: Children get 10M unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions a year

 

By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK | Mon Nov 7, 2011 6:22pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pediatricians write more than 10 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions -- for conditions like the flu and asthma -- every year, suggests a new study.

Those ailments, and others not caused by bacteria, don't respond to the drugs. But misuse of antibiotics contributes to drug resistance -- so those same medications might not work in the future when they're really needed.

"Antibiotics are wonderful. There are times you really need them, the question is just being judicious about when we use them," said Betsy Foxman, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor who was not involved in the research.

The new study involved a nationally-representative sample of almost 65,000 outpatient visits by kids under 18 in 2006 through 2008. Using medical codes, researchers were able to determine the type of diagnosis kids were given, as well as what kind of drugs, if any, they were prescribed.

In total, doctors prescribed an antibiotic at one in every five visits. Most prescriptions were given out for kids with respiratory ailments, including sinus infections and pneumonia.

Some of those infections are caused by bacteria, and antibiotics are warranted. But almost one-quarter of all antibiotic prescriptions were given to kids with respiratory conditions that probably or definitely do not call for antibiotics -- such as bronchitis, the flu, asthma and allergies.

That translates to more than 10 million antibiotic prescriptions each year that likely won't do any good but might do harm, Dr. Adam Hersh of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and his colleagues reported today in Pediatrics.

Half of all antibiotics prescribed were "broad-spectrum" drugs -- meaning they act against a wide range of bacteria. Those "kill more of the good bacteria in our bodies and can set the child up for infections with antibiotic resistant bacteria down the road," Hersh wrote in an email to Reuters Health.

"In many of these instances antibiotics are not indicated at all," he added.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics include macrolides and certain types of cephalosporins and penicillins.

Foxman said that wiping out the non-harmful bacteria in the intestines has been linked to asthma and, recently, to obesity.

"We think of antibiotics as being wholly beneficial, but they are not very specific, they hit everything in your body," she said. "By making our microbes that are supposed to be with us disappear, we can be causing other health problems we don't know about."

And even when the drugs are prescribed for just a few days, giving them to lots of kids unnecessarily raises the risk of antibiotic-resistant infections in the kids themselves, and for society as a whole, she added.

"It's been known for a very long time... that people are prescribing antibiotics for upper respiratory infections where they have no benefit," Foxman told Reuters Health.

"To me this wasn't a big surprise, though it's certainly disturbing."

Hersh said that there are a number of reasons why doctors might prescribe antibiotics when they're not likely to help. "One reason overuse occurs is because the diagnosis is often unclear -- this is common with ear infections. The decision is made to prescribe an antibiotic even though the diagnosis isn't certain, just 'to be on the safe side,'" he said.

In those cases, a "wait and see" approach in which the kid comes back to the office a couple days later might avoid an unnecessary prescription, he added.

"If your doctor suggests an antibiotic prescription, for instance for an ear infection, ask how certain the diagnosis is. If the diagnosis is still a little unclear, ask if it would be safe to wait a day or two with close follow up rather than starting the antibiotic right away," Hersh advised.

Dr. Aditya Gaur, who has studied antibiotic prescribing at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, said that parents should ask doctors why their kids are getting whatever particular medication, including antibiotics, they're being prescribed.

"Parents and families should be part of the decision and ask why (something) is being done," Gaur, who wasn't linked to the study, told Reuters Health. They should also know "not to expect an antibiotic every time an infection is diagnosed."

SOURCE: bit.ly/cxXOG Pediatrics, online November 7, 2011.

恐龍仔細個都食咗好多antibiotics, 特別係佢試過氣管炎bronchitis 之後，氣管一直唔好，到醫生之後甚至話佢係哮喘asthma！
真係令人擔心... 好在呢個非常媽媽已經改變咗，唔再俾恐龍仔食抗生素 (或者應該係，選擇性去俾)！
上次牛牛誤食抗生素之後，就唔再响廁所便便，因為太急太快，到依家半年喇，都仲係响片片度便便！唉~
 

當年嘅恐龍仔

當哥哥19個月大時...

都係同牛牛一樣：一個傻樣！

睇返舊時d相，發覺做哥哥比較幸福，成日有街去！牛牛就成日响屋企瞓！

得閒睇返d舊相都唔錯，多謝老公！

傻牛牛

本來想影吓佢隻腳
點知佢即時搶咗個鏡頭蓋"喂~喂~"

之後，玩一陣教具啦~ 好多表情！

偷笑？

駛唔駛咁開心呀？

拍掌！

夠鐘瞓喇，呢個係牛牛飲奶個樣！

笑緊架！

佢飛吻中！

每晚就係咁：扭計要奶奶，搶！一路行一路飲，飛吻byebye~ 入房瞓覺~

古惑牛

唔好話牛牛唔醒，有時真係俾佢笑c~

好似呢晚，爸爸要幫哥哥睇功課，咁媽媽食完飯就帶咗牛牛落街，一般情況，牛牛肯行嘅話，佢帶路！
而呢晚，佢行咗去第二期，因為仲有工程做緊，好多地方圍咗欄，呢隻牛好想行埋去搞搞震，唔俾佢行近咩？佢行開幾步~ 轉個頭極速調頭！等媽媽以為佢咁乖聽話，佢就响度偷笑！

仲要唔只一次係咁！好似人地同佢玩緊咁！

呢隻嘢，越嚟越古惑！

牛牛嘅第一個面試

幫牛牛報咗3間屋企附近嘅幼兒園插班，第一間話出年二三月先會安排面見，OK啦~ 即係有位啦！
第二間，就係呢日面試呢間，隔咗成個月先打嚟約，响學校樓下見到d小朋友，都覺得唔似插班生面試，原來~真係滿咗，面試係出年9月開學嘅幼兒班！
第三間，無哂影！

等嘅時候，牛牛去咗電腦枱捉老鼠！其他嘅嘢~乜都無興趣！

到叫名喇~牛牛傻乎乎咁行去另一個課室，坐好，攞玩具玩，老師問物件名稱，就當然唔會講啦~都未識講！但成個過程，牛牛都算合作，仲笑住byebye，飛吻！
然後~ 又傻乎乎咁~搖吓搖吓咁走返出嚟！
老師見到佢都笑~ 哈哈！

今次，牛牛上完playgroup，坐巴士返嚟，仲未食嘢餓住咁去"玩"面試，表現到平日嘅佢，媽媽幾開心！但爸爸對牛牛唔識講嘢，有d着急~

恐龍仔的第一本老鼠記者

呢本書係8月响書展買嘅，原因係好多人都話好睇，恐龍媽想買本俾恐龍仔試吓睇..



可惜懶媽媽讀咗幾頁就無興趣，反而恐龍仔自己攞嚟睇！
早幾晚，恐龍仔半夜醒咗瞓唔番，就睇咗半本！今日，終於睇哂喇！

問佢仲想唔想睇，佢話：想！
咁中文版定英文版呢？
恐龍仔答：中文版！

咁好啦~ 等媽媽睇吓有無二手書賣，買幾本返嚟啦~