ASEAN summit day 1, this means no running inside the stadium where the summit happens. Bummer as I had speed work, and running on the street didn’t feel safe. At least, the sky was clear and I love the pink sky before the sunset.
I then went to the Physio followed by check up with the sport doctor. Given the improvement, the doctor said no need for MRI. I should continue strengthening my glute, hamstring, and add abductors and core. I find the twice a week session really helpful, as the exercises I do there are so different than what I do with strength training. On days that I feel sore, I get the electric magnetic and ultrasound therapy to relax the muscle and speed the healing process. I will continue until the marathon.
I finally booked my Chicago stay. I had decision panic for few days, not sure which one to book, which area to stay, finally I pulled the trigger and booked it.
Oh… oura ring confirmed that Monday was ovulation day as my temperature shoot up the next day. Suspicion confirmed. This morning, I felt sleepy and lethargic as well, common symptoms on the third week of the period.
Sofia had piano lesson from 6:30-7:30pm. I had one hour with Lizzy alone. I helped her with mandarin and spent half hour or so hugging her chatting. I missed that.
I am torn between being the parent that chases them with homework and the mom who enjoy their being them, my forever babies. In those moments, I feel parenting is so hard. I argued with daddy again about the way to approach homework. How the conversation ended made me feel even harder to navigate parenting or co-parenting. Nobody really knows what’s THE right way, yet we all feel that our way is the right way. I know this cannot be solved, maybe ever, so I just need to manage the situation at the moment.
How do you address parenting style differences with your partner/spouse?
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Ugh- it’s so hard. If it makes you feel any better, I read, or heard, somewhere that it’s actually good for kids if their parents don’t agree on every parenting decision. If the parents are in total agreement, the kids feel like they’re ganging up on them. I’m not sure how that translates to real world issues, but maybe it’s good for the kids to see there are multiple points of view, and different ways to solve a problem? So yes- just manage each problem in the moment, know that you’re doing a good job no matter what, and the kids will be fine.
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Mostly, we are on the same page. I am very school oriented and once my kids will start homework I will make sure it is done. In terms of optional, extracurricular activities-that I feel has more leeway since it’s EXTRA-curricular. With Russian, I usually insist and they follow through b/c it’s important to me. School+family+values. They are not overloaded with anything else.
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Phil and I luckily have pretty similar parenting styles but we are early into parenting. We were raised fairly similarly as well. He had a much better schooling experience since he grew up in a large city whereas I grew up in a rural area where there were no AP classes or gifted and talented programs, etc. And yet we have both been very successful and have great careers. So I think we both have the perspective that things will work out and we don’t have to push super hard on things or like aspire for our kids to go to Harvard, for example. For the young kid years, Phil has mostly deferred to me around decisions about things like sleep training.
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