Written on: 13 July 2011
In less than 2 weeks my eldest daughter will be 17. Alhamdulillah, we had never thought she will do so very well at this stage of her life. Her achievements was way beyond our expectation. She is our biologist and chemist who can rattle of and explain in details the things that she had learnt or the experiment that she had done. its reactions and what not. One of the things she loves to do is to create her own words...and so her siblings suggested that she writes her own dictionary. And they were thinking of all the words that she had created and they are still using since she was 10 or 8. It was fun listening to them - after all she was able to talk in sentences before she was one year old which I tot was normal.
In less than 2 weeks my eldest daughter will be 17. Alhamdulillah, we had never thought she will do so very well at this stage of her life. Her achievements was way beyond our expectation. She is our biologist and chemist who can rattle of and explain in details the things that she had learnt or the experiment that she had done. its reactions and what not. One of the things she loves to do is to create her own words...and so her siblings suggested that she writes her own dictionary. And they were thinking of all the words that she had created and they are still using since she was 10 or 8. It was fun listening to them - after all she was able to talk in sentences before she was one year old which I tot was normal.
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And so when one of my children was selected to attend the gifted education program years back - I was thinking it was no big deal because I felt all my children were gifted in their own ways . And still it is no big deal to us - what we worry most is what she will be when she grows up her choice of career and her attitude towards life and the hereafter. She was never treated differently from her siblings and to say that she is different - definitely all my children are unique in their own way.
But there is one advantage of having her around - she is our human calculator. Whenever we are lazy to calculate stuff we will just give her the numbers and she will do it faster than the calculator. she just recently introduced to her siblings a game she played whenever she is in a bus - look at the number plate of the cars and make a number sentence to turn them to 13. When asked why 13 - she said its a prime number so can only be divisible by it self - she has yet to find a solution for one of the set of numbers and told them to try and solve it. They roll their eyes and ignored her.
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The other 2 are still finding their niche, Alia is very good in Art and anything to do with her hands, insya'Allah hope she'll be able to explore it when she goes to secondary school. At the moment her main target is to get PSLE over with. Insya'Allah she is a courages little girl (tho she is not little now) and will be able to bloom and make others happy through her sensitive nature.
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Amsyar is still playful by nature even tho we try to limit it ... he still spends more time playing games than pouring over books - but no qualms he is doing excellent in school and has aspirations that he is not able to put in words yet or we are probably too impatient to wait for him to arrange the rush of words and action that came to his head all at once. Insya'Allah he too will be able to find his niche and please Allah with whatever he chooses.
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Insya'Allah we are not sure of the future but we are forever in gratitude to Allah for all the belessings he has showered upon us. Alhamdulillah we are and forever will be under His watchful eyes and insya'Allah will continue to be filled with His blessings always...Ameen
