Since we moved here to Phnom Penh, EJ hasn't watched a lot of TV. It's not that we forbid him. But it's because his favorite channel back in Malaysia, Playhouse Disney, is not available here in PP.
Some parents don't let their kids watch TV. They have their own reasons. But in our house, we do let EJ watch TV, supervised of course. But since there's nothing much that interests him on TV here (he watches Tom and Jerry once in a while), he usually watches his DVD collection of Barney, Mickey Mouse and Thomas & his friends. And when he gets tired watching Mickey, he switches to his books.
EJ loves to read or more like being read by me or his daddy. He has more books than me! Every week I'd buy him about 4-5 books and he's always happy and excited to read a new book.
If it weren't for the second hand bookstore, we'd be very poor by now. LOL! There's a second hand bookstore that we go to for EJ's books. The books cost about $1-1.50 each. The newer one costs about $2. We totally save a lot because a new book costs about $8-12 here.
We went to the second hand bookstore yesterday. And the expression on his face when we went inside was priceless. We were still by the epson receipt printer of the store, and EJ wanted to leap out of his stroller and start leafing through the many books before him.
Oh how happy am I to see my son getting lost in the world of stories, imagination and dreams.
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