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Fostering Creativity

Fostering Creativity: The New Playground

Deciding what to do when you are boring requires creativity. This happened to us today. This afternoon, Lulu and Mama went to a hospital to visit Lulu's aunt. She has been hospitalised for two days. We stayed there the whole afternoon until aunty was discharged, then we went

Fostering Creativity

Fostering Creativity: Watercoloring

Mama just remembered that Lulu got a souvenir from a fishing game she attended at the town square yesterday. The souvenirs are watercoloring pack consists of a picture, 6 colours palette and one brush. After her nap today, she saw the pack and instantly asked to open it. This is

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Fostering Creativity: Doodle

This morning Lulu, grandma and Mama visited Jember town square. There is a "car free day" event that is held every Sunday morning. There were so many activities that we did in the town square. It gave us valuable lessons. Not only for Lulu, but for Mama and

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Fostering Creativity: Imaginative Play

Lulu just got a new chair from grandma. It becomes her favourite spot in the house since then, as the chair has a huge owl design and it in her size. I placed the chair in our living room, where most of our activity takes place. The chair allows Lulu

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Fostering Creativity: Playing Blocks

Building blocks are one of the way to foster creativity in children. The set consists of several blocks in different shapes and colours that allows children to freely pour their imagination when playing with it. Lulu owns one unique set of blocks, which theme is animal habitat. Not only the

Fostering Creativity

Fostering Creativity: Makeup and Dress Up

Earlier today we went out to a shopping mall. Before going out, we prepare ourselves. For Lulu, Mama brushed her hair, changed her clothes and helped her to put on her sandals. Then, Mama changed clothes and did some touch up: applying face powder and little bit of lipstick. Lulu

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Fostering Creativity: How to Reach Kitty Cat

Still about the cat. On our afternoon walk today, Lulu found a cute cat. When she approach the cat, the cat ran away and went into a house. The cat than sits on the terrace of the house. Obviously, it ran away to avoid Lulu! haha.. The house looked empty.

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Fostering Creativity: A Drink for Kitty Cat

There is one stray cat that often come to Granny's house. Lulu loves to play with the cat. One day she fed the cat with a cat food. Ever since, the cat come more frequently. Whenever the cat comes, Lulu always delighted to play. Unfortunately, we ran out

Fostering Creativity

Fostering Creativity: Congregation Prayer

Lulu and Mama are still in Granny's and Granpa's house. We brought only few of her toys from Singapore. So, Lulu only has a limited choice of toys. But, from what I can see, it means that she has a lot of something else that she

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Fostering Creativity: Outdoor Play

The new challenge is up! This month's theme is about creativity. We are asked to observe the child's activity and find a creative aspect in it. I believe that every child is born creative with their powerful imagination. So, during this game, my plan is to

Financial Literacy

Introducing Financial Literacy to Toddler: a Reflection

Over the past ten days, Mama incorporated the concept of financial literacy to Alula's activities. The Journals Here are the activities that we did: Day 1: Introduction to coins [https://indrilamida.com/coins-galore/] Day 2: Introduction to the concept of savings [https://indrilamida.com/the-piggy-banks/] Day 3: Introduction

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Feeding the Elephant

We went to the zoo this morning. It was so much fun to see Lulu excited to her encounter with the animals. We arrived at the zoo in the morning. It was not so crowded and the weather was still relatively less warm. As Papa and Mama hold an annual

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The Orange Juice Machine

Another fun activity to introduce financial literacy to toddler is by buying something from a vending machine as an alternate way to purchase something. There is a vending machine that Mama likes to buy the juice from, iJooz. It's juice from natural orange. Only for $2 we can

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Withdrawing Money from the ATM

Our morning walk today was a bit late. Papa and Mama are unwell, so our morning walk today was to a GP (General Practitioner). On our way back from the doctor, Papa needed to stop at a bank to update his details but unfortunately the queue was too long. He

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Tap In and Tap Out: Paying for a Train Ride

A friend invited us for a pizza-making-playdate today. Their house is It means that Lulu is couple stations away from our house. It means that Lulu will be riding a train! Lulu loves to ride a train. She loves to see things outside from a moving train. She loves to

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Introducing The Concept of Sharing to a Toddler: Mosque Donation

Today we went to Orchard road, the paradise for shoppers in Singapore. Mama needed to meet a friend and we planned to meet Papa for dinner. Lulu had a lot of fun walking along the shopping stretch. Walking along Orchard road is so much nicer nowadays, as smoking is prohibited

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Eating Out

One way to introduce financial literacy to a toddle is by eating out. Well, not only the toddler that will be excited, the Mom will be too, haha! We took Lulu to try a burger place near our home. Rumour has it, the burgers are good. So, we went there

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The Coin-Operated Ride

Lulu has been recovering from a fever this week and it was almost rainy in the afternoon for a week. So this week we didn't manage to go for outdoor activities as much as we usually do. Going out only means going for a grocery shopping, eating in

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Grocery Shopping: An Introduction to Market Concept

Today we went to a supermarket to buy some groceries. Introducing financial literacy [https://indrilamida.com/how-to-introduce-financial-literacy-to-toddler/]to her, today we plan to introduce Lulu to the concept of market, where people buying and selling goods. I know, it should have been better to introduce such concept in a wet

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The Piggy Banks

Having a young toddler like Lulu, we have been (very) cautious with small things including coins. Although we keep telling her not to put things other than food in her mouth, sometimes Lulu still puts a random thing into her mouth out of curiosity. However, since she is a BLW

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Coins Galore

Introducing financial literac [https://indrilamida.com/how-to-introduce-financial-literacy-to-toddler/]y to Alula, today we play with coins! Alula has never been playing with coins before. She was too small to understand what can go into her mouth and what doesn't. As of now, I think she understands that only food

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How to Introduce Financial Literacy to Toddler

The challenge for this month is introducing financial literacy to children. What is financial literacy? Financial literacy is the education and understanding of knowing how money is made, spent, and saved, as well as the skills and ability to use financial resources to make decisions. These decisions include how to

Discovering Ability

Discovering Ability: A Reflection

As part of class assignment from Ibu Profesional, we were asked to observe our children in order to discover their ability. So, I have been making conscious observations on Alula from the past fifteen days. I let her decide her own playing activities without directing her. Basically, I just be

Discovering Ability

Alula's First Road Trip Experience

Our family loves traveling. We value knowledge and experience more than material things. My husband and I have been traveling a lot before we had Lulu. Today we take Lulu for a road trip for the first time. The idea is to introduce Lulu to road trip experience and to

Discovering Ability

Outdoor Galore: Have Fun at the Playground

On our morning walk today, we played bubble and went to a playground. Lulu seemed very happy playing new things today. As we left the house for our walk, we brought along a bubble toy that we bought few days ago. Lulu love to play bubbles, especially the part of