GTA Week 2 - 4

Since the Timeout 1 ended and Gecko Jnr was handed back his GTA game, all seems to be going pretty well. He very quickly used up his 7 hours allowance, split between Monday (4 hours) and Tuesday (3 hours). And moan about unfairness for the rest of the week. So I suggested that he "earn" some extra hours by doing lessons. Choice of lessons were Mandarin which consist of watching Mandarin languaged movie or cartoons; Malay language which will be looking at any Malay language science, maths or picture dictionary; English which will be doing any worksheets in English. So son very quickly did 1 hour of watching some Mandarin dvd, thus earned his first 1 extra hour on GTA.

However, as I'm writing this is on Day 3 of Week 4, Gecko Jnr's interest in GTA seems to be showing signs of waning. The past few days, it didn't seems to be Gecko Jnr's top priority to switch GTA on first thing in the morning, and he's only been clocking an average of 1 1/2 hours per day, quite fascinating to actually be seeing this transition. He's gone back to his Looney tunes, ToonTown online and Star Wars Droid Factory.

Lessons Gecko Jnr benefitted from GTA? Most certainly he is now very aware of all the bad words one should not be saying, and quite often hears teenagers walking by, spouting all those F words and A words. He very quickly conclude that the person is very rude and bad. Now I believe is time is ripe for him to understand the idea of why saying those words is rude and bad for you.