Pambatang Solmux 200mg: The #BestTandem for my #FirstTimeSchooler

It's been three weeks since R started going to school. He is a #FirstTimeSchooler but he wasn't really new to the school environment. Ever since going yaya-less last year, he has been taking and fetching his achi with me from school everyday. He knew the guards, where the playground is, where manong fishball is, achi's classroom and even knew some of achi's classmates. 

R has always expressed that he wanted to go to school like achi. I could have enrolled him last school year but decided to delay his schooling because I felt he wasn't ready yet. Earliefr this year, when we learned he was accepted to the school, we were all very excited for him! Achi was teaching him what she learned daw in Nursery. They're so cute!

Bagong lig, gulo gulo pa hair but I was excited to take his photo! Heehee!

A few weeks before school started, our school always conducts a Parents Orientation. I always make sure to attend it not only because there are a lot of reminders from the school's head teachers, traffic flow, etc. but also because I get to meet my kids' teachers for the school year. School is our children's second home, I want them to feel secure and safe as they are at home. So when I found out that one of Y's Nursery teacher will also be R's, #Sigurado ako that R will be in good hands! 

Because I also wanted to be #Sigurado that R will enjoy his time in school. I made him a part of the preparation like buying what he needs for school. Konti lang naman because the school provides everything else. We went to the department store to buy socks and a windbreaker then to the grocery to pick his baon, I let him choose what he likes to psych him more for school! Making him part of this process is just one of the things that will make us the #BestTandem for his first year in school. 

If you ask R what he likes about school, I think his answer will be recess haha! He actually eats the snack the school gives everyday. But I always pack extra biscuits in case he wants to eat more.

He had first day jitters for a couple of days, he didn't want us to leave the classroom but when once he started to get to know his teachers and classmates, he has been making kwento of what new songs and things he learned in school. R is still adjusting though, there are days when he doesn't want to go to school and I needed to sweet talk him so he would go inside the classroom. Although I worry about R, I'm just happy he doesn't cry and I make sure he's full in the morning and in a good mood.

Papa's boy. He wants papa to be his classmate haha! This was the first day of school.

A week into school, I asked the teachers about R. I'm happy to learn that he behaves well and listens to the teachers! I am actually amazed of the things he's been telling me of what he has learned in school.

We also had a late celebration of his birthday in school. We celebrated it in school two weeks after because there was no school yet during his birthday. I wanted him to experience it like his achi! He was happy with his doughnut party in school!

Seeing R in school made me reminisce about Y's Nursery days, while she adjusted better than R, I remember she got sick a lot during her first year in school. She would come home from school with colds or cough and as much as possible I don't want the same thing to happen to R. But if he does get cough, my #BestTandem Pambatang Solmux 200mg will help him not miss out school and not get in the way of learning new things or making new friends at school.

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I'm really lucky that R is easy to give medicine to whether it's yummy or not but you don't have to worry about that with Pambatang Solmux 200mg because it's strawberry-flavored! Less medicine intake too because Pambatang Solmux contains 200mg of medicine per 5ml vs. other carbocisteine medicines which only contain 100mg of medicine per 5ml.

Pagod on his first day! Haha! He usually falls asleep on our way home, I guess he's tired from all the playing and singing he does in school. Heehee!

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First Quarter, Report Card Grades and PTC

When my cousins and a friend's daughter found out I enrolled Y at her school, their first reaction was "Good luck Achi/Auntie!" Haha! That should scare me right? My cousins graduated from the same school and my friend's daughter is still in Junior High.

I knew about the school's reputation on how hard their Chinese curriculum is but it's one of the reasons why I chose this school. Nursery went by and Y had a fun year. Y now is in Kindergarten 1 and when I saw their quarterly syllabus, I was shocked because it was what I studied when I was in Grade 1 (14 years ago, haha!). I remember my Kindergarten days were all play, sing and dance lang with minimal studying pero iba na pala ngayon! So ito na nga, kelangan ko pala talaga ng luck at mahaba-habang pasensya. I refuse to hire a tutor for Y because their Chinese lessons are still easy and I can still handle teaching Y. I was talking to another co-parent and we both agreed that we never expect that with our daughters only in Kindergarten, it would be this competitive! The mommas feel the pressure! 

Eto na... First quarter exams came. It was the longest two weeks of my life because there's oral then written exam. We studied and studied and I was happy when her test results finally came out. Kebs naman siya sa grades. I think the parents were more nervous and anxious than the kids. Then report card distribution came. Honestly ha, I wanted Y to have honors but I wasn't expecting naman. Her average was 0.06 shy from her getting a Bronze Merit Award. Naturally, I felt sayang, konting konti na lang talaga diba? But I don't want to be a Tiger Mom or a Helicopter Parent, her grades speak for itself. I don't want to pressure her this young. Sabi nga ni BOS: "Hindi nakakain ang honors". Bow! I am more than happy with her grades and how she is loving school. She enjoys school, loves answering worksheets and activity books, she also loves drawing but she hates writing especially if I make her write in Chinese. Haha!

A day after report card distribution was PTC. I already knew what the teachers were going to say: Y is talkative. Haha! Other than that, everything was positive. We just need to work on a few things. I hope it will stay that way until she graduates haha! I also got to meet and chat with some of the moms of Y's classmates. Topics went from how our child's behavior in class to K12 to how boys behave differently and how they're more immature than girls to which I told them why I didn't enroll R who's 3-years old, to school yet this year. He made it to the cut-off, as in super exact, he turned three just a few days before school started this year but decided to enroll him next year na lang because I think R is not ready yet to which this mom answered "Mag mamature din naman yan pag pumasok na, siyempre kelangan niya sumabay kaya hahabol yan." "Alam mo sayang yung one year, malelate siya mag-graduate. Parang ganon. She told me how her son skipped nursery, from toddler class to kindergarten. Kung kaya ng anak niya, that's great! But for me talaga, hindi pa ready si R. Then I asked one question lang, because she mentioned that her other son was in Grade 10, if it wasn't for K12, her son would graduate high school this year. I asked her "If your son is to take any college entrance exams now, would he know what course he would like to take?". She answered "No". I hope by the time Y is in Junior High, may Grade 11 and 12 na nun, I hope I have guided her well that she knows what to take in college.

Ang pray ko lang is for patience. When their studies get harder, I hope I don't turn into a Tiger Mom. Haha!