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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: a Reflection

After productive communication [https://indrilamida.com/tag/productive-communication/]and promoting independence [https://indrilamida.com/tag/promoting-independence/], the next challenge in Bunda Sayang class is a family project that aims to increasing children's intelligence. From four areas of intelligence, I and my husband decided that we will concentrate on

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Feeding Fishes

Alhamdulillah the weather is nice today. We woke up in the morning, performed Subuh prayer, and decided to go for a walk to the nearest pond. There is one nice nature walk near our house. It's actually a hospital [https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ktph-wins-international-design-award-beating-us-and-japanese-buildings] that is surrounded

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Rain Rain (Don't) Go Away

I love Singapore these days, much rain and less hot. Personally I loves rain. It brings a peaceful feeling, knowing that Allah sending his blessings to me. On top of that, it's the perfect reason to stay in bed all day and having a spicy ramen! We actually

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Allah Creates Strawberry

Mama has been telling stories about Allah's creation to Alula. In every story, Mama always stressed the point that Allah is the creator of all. Only Allah has the power to create nature, human, animals, and plants. Alula loves to eat strawberries. And luckily Mama found a book

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Exploring the Plants

Unfortunately, we didn't have a chance to go for a morning walk as Mama was a bit unwell in the morning. So, Alula didn't have the chance to find pigeons too. After rainy days, alhamdulillah Singapore's weather was relatively hot (and humid) today. The

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Strawberry Obeys Allah

Today is a public holiday in Singapore. It was quite hectic in the morning and rainy in the afternoon. So, we didn't had a chance to go for a walk into the nature. Today's activity is reading book about Alula's favourite fruit: strawberry. Initially

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Meet the Real Snail

After reading book about snail [https://indrilamida.com/snails-obeys-allah/] yesterday, we take Alula for a walk today with a mission of finding snail. It was raining last night, so we hope we can find at least one snail on our way. Mama and Papa is looking everywhere as we walk,

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Snail Obeys Allah

Today's activity is to introduce Alula to different animal. Mama quickly browse Alula's book collection and find a book about snail. That's interesting, snails can be found around our neighbourhood. The book title is Snail Obeys Allah. It tells us about how the snail

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Playing with Cats

If Alula took after Papa, she would love cats. But, if she took after Mama, she would runaway whenever she saw cats approaching, huhu.. Up to this point, Lulu looks enthusiast whenever she sees cats. OK, it looks like it's the Dad's genes again. After reading

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Reading Animal Story Book

Lulu loves to read. It's her dad's genes. Papa loves to read (a lot!). Since Alula is still inside Mama's belly, Papa always read a book to Alula. When Alula was just born, Papa can't wait to register a library membership card

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Shaping Spiritual Intelligence in a Baby: Recognizing God's Creation

After going through articles and theories of human intelligence, I come to conclusion that spiritual intelligence is supposed to be the basis, thus need to be introduced and shaped from the early age. Helping Alula to shape spiritual intelligence, we let Alula see how we (the parents) worship God through

Promoting Independence

Promoting Independence to a Baby: A Reflection

The course of Bunda Sayang Class for this month is about promoting independence. I agree that independence should be encouraged to children. Promoting independence to children from a young age will shape the children to be a self-reliant individual. The Process The challenge of promoting independence is up for one

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Putting a Jacket On

Initially, today Mama plans to introduce Alula on how to put her legs through leggings. However, the plan needs to be postponed as we don't have enough time for it. Today Alula went to Singapore Jurong Bird Park. We left early in the morning as it's

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Putting Arms through Sleeves

Thanks to the Body Part song, Alula now recognizes her head and hands (at least). That's great because now Mama can introduce Alula to be more 'helpful' on dressing times as part of promoting independent dressing to her. For the past two days, Mama has been

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Pull T-shirt Off the Head

Mama is now repeating the body parts song over and over to Alula - before the bath, during the diaper change, even while prepping Lulu to sleep. She loves it when I sing while demonstrating the body parts being mentioned. Sometimes I demonstrate it on me, and sometimes I touch

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Pulling Off the Socks

It's the second day of promoting independent dressing to Alula. The agenda is only to introduce her of what she can do by herself. The practices will go along in our daily activities together. Yesterday's introduction went quite well. When I sing the body parts song

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Introduction to Body Parts

Alula has been learning to feed herself quite well. Next week she's turning 9 months. According to The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning [http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/documents/teaching_routines.pdf], children in this age range (8-18 months) often can help undress and

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: The Small Puffs

I'm so amazed on how baby could develop her skills over the months. Particularly while observing Alula and her self-feeding activities. During almost three months, her skill develops tremendously. I still remember the first day she took solid, she struggled handling the food in her hand. Not to

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: The Pincer Grasp

From what I learn during Alula's meal time so far is: baby has a natural ability to eat. Just like how they breastfeed, sit, crawl and so on. We just have to introduce the skill to them and giving few examples at the beginning. My baby is developing

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: Giving Example

Alula starts to feed herself since the very first day when she took solids. From that very first day too, we try our best to have our meal time together with her as a family. Be it at home, at the restaurants, at the food court, even at friends'

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: Introducing of New Food

Meal preparation for BLW baby is relatively easy. Baby's meal menu is often according to the family meal, only without salt and sugar. So there is no need to serve special food for baby Lulu. I give her as many food as possible to explore, as long as

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: Learning to Chew

Alula has been eating solids since two months ago. I encourage her to self-fed herself as I wanted her to be independent and have a good self-confidence. It turns out that our feeding method corresponds to the release of The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

Productive Communication

Productive Communication: A Reflection

Thanks to productive communication [https://indrilamida.com/productive-communication/] class from Ibu Profesional, now I am aware that communication is not about what you say but also how you say it. Since then, I began to really pay attention to my verbal as well as non-verbal aspects whenever I communicate. Even

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Productive Communication to Baby: Do not don't me!

Alula has recently found a new way to communicate: screaming (-_-"). Mama hasn't really comprehend what she means by screaming. My early guess is I have enough food and I want to end the meal time now. But it seems that it's not really

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Productive Communication to Baby: Showing Empathy

Today we had to go to the ICA (Immigration & Checkpoint Authority) of Singapore to settle Alula's permanent resident formalities. The appointment was at 9 AM. We need to take train, which means we had to go from our house at about 8 AM. So, today Alula needs