Joa meets her old K2 friend

Last saturday, I brought my little girl to National Libray - Bishan branch to look for her favourite Rainbow Magic collections (The dad has bought her 6 books already! Yet, it is NOT enough for her). She managed to got 2 books with one of the book -Indigo fairy was read before. She was encouraged to pass it on to someone that wanted the book so that every girls can read it as well. Of course, she was willing! She also managed to spot her K2 friend - Melia Chua @Tai Pei Childcare. However, to my surprise, an extrovent, she was too shy to approach her and insisted me to ask and identify on her behalf whether the girl is her ex-classmates. She even remarked that she will go off if I refused to do so! I did explain that it is better to approach by herself, however, she still refused. As a good dad, I approached her and confirmed that she is the girl - Melia Chua, even though she refused to acknowledge earlier. Her elder brother just told me that instead. One thing really puzzled me why the girls are so shy? (especially, my girl, that I always thought she is bold to try new things!)

Nevertheless, I went back to told my girl and yet my girl has requested me to hand over the Rainbow Magic story book to her on her behalf. I tried to persuade her to do this time, however, she refused. Anyway, I took the book and passed it to the girl. I can see her eyes was sparkling when she saw an UNCLE, a stranger can pass it to girl (I hope that she can do the same to other girls as well i.e. SHARE) a book that she wanted (Look like the author, Meadow Dasiy, has the right ingredients to spark the interest of the juniors). I can see that she was more surprise than grateful. I grab the opportunity and re-introduce Joaquim to her and emphasised that the book belongs to Joaquim and she is willing to pass it to u. She replied with a courtesy thanks and wave goodbye. So is my girl. I really hope that they can interact more socially and acquire both phone/email address, but they did not.

The lesson is that Joaqium is put into uncomfortable zone to dealing with "strangers" and got loss to express herself well. I think I need to get her to learn and relax in fronts of old mates.

Hope that this encounters will benefit the girls and defintiely myself.