GOING MENTAL

Lately I have been thinking and pondering on how to acquire First Class Mentality for the sake of my children's development. To be able to use the right words at the right time. To know the answers to their questions and still understand what the question was all about, and able to maintain my cool as a mom.

Like a good mother, I spent a lot of time putting on my thinking cap pondering on how I can have a First Class Mentality. I know that Malays have been accused of having First Class Slacking Power and 3rd Class mentality. 2nd class was not mentioned. I guessed this is because we have nothing in between, always the extreme of both ends.

Thus making a quantum leap from 3rd to 1st is quite a daunting task for me. The task is more difficult for myself who hardly do any thinking. Not like Jazz whose mind has never stop working, or else he would be dead. Thinking of going after something that is very fuzzy should be doubly difficult. I mean, do you honestly know what First Class Mentality is? Thinking like mothers of successful children might not be the answer. After all, how would I know how they think. Is that the right thought? Think again.

How do I instill First Class Mentality to my children when I can't acquire the skill myself. How will my children brazen in the world if they can't fend themselves with the ability to think wisely.

Some working moms employed maids to look after their children who turned out speaking Indonesian or Tagalog more fluent than they do their native languages. We thought hiring people from least developed countries with minimal wages might do wonders in the department of bringing up kids and a clean household. We know how wrong we were, don't we?