To: gg cox who wrote (20938 ) 8/8/2007 7:41:05 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217906 <<Future challenge is keeping her away from gameboy, and then future future challenge is keeping her aware of gameboy>> ... I fear not, at least not yet, for so far so good, but still very extremely early days, I realize. Erita Coconut likes the computer, especially the car racing games. She gets to do it once so often where kids gather in the neighborhood, but only after physical exertion using jungle gym and such. She adores using video Skype and cares much for remote controlled car. She takes the initiative in holding certain boy's (i.e. german swiss paul and english dutch ruben, and they fight each other, also good training for them), and get them to either pull or push the cart she is in, occasionally shares a ride with them, but pushes them away when they initiate same. ... all style of education is available hong kong; we have decided to send erita coconut to a primary/highschool founded by the inventor of laser where the multinational kids study in mandarin for the first three years, and then study in english with mandarin as second language subsequently, based on the international curriculum. all kids are also required to learn martial arts, and will spend time doing community services as well as a few nights living on the streets of hong kong amongst the homeless; and yes, scout program and sea scout programs are available as well :0) - trust this will be experimental enough - to train up a seriously dangerous "le femme erita" :0) these things must be decided long before necessary and implemented 36 months ahead of time in crazy hong kong. the coconut erita, who is now 34 months young, will attend a montessori program starting in Sept and her summer program has been comprised of organized and random swimming, travelling to Italy (lake majorie, table manners) and London (dino museum), and on Saturday we proceed to island in Pacific to experience serious nature. The world famous Singapore Zoo is also programmed for this year. yesterday erita attended a pizza-making worldmarket.blogspot.com lesson at the neighborhood restaurant organized by her summer school, and she came back and said, "dada, i am still small so i made a small pizza for you" all wonderful, and so very extremely fast !