Singing, Dancing And In Between

Jakjak has been going to school for close to a year now. While he has not been very vocal about every detail of school, he has, from time to time expressed himself using song and dance.


There are days when he sings more than he dances and sometimes it's the other way around. Sometimes he sings and dances at the top of his lungs. Like many of his antics, he never seems to get tired. There are times that we are already in bed and he still sings and dances. We ask him to stop when it gets too much, but we don't really force him to stop. In fact, we encourage him.

I believe that encouragement becomes a key factor in building his self-confidence. And while Jakjak seems to be overflowing with self-confidence at his age now, he is still a child, and from time to time, it shows when he acts "shy". I know this personally, because I did not have Jakjak's self-confidence when I was his age (not even a tiny bit). I was easily discouraged, and I did not get the encouragement that I needed back then. So it's time to turn the tables around.


I don't sing. I don't dance. I don't have the confidence to do so, nor the confidence to learn. But that's okay. I know that where I failed, Jakjak won't.