i borrowed the above title from a blog i stumbled upon while googling for the definitions of GEP

you see, last evening when i came home from work my 1st one said,

"ibu, tomorrow afiq have to be at school by 8.45am"

me - "why so early, remedial eh?"

1st one - "no, mr nara says got GEP test"

me - "GEP? what on earth is that???"

okay, i might be trying to prove a point here - not that i needed to anyway

that i'm certainly not a parent who has fallen into the kiasu-ism cult

no way man!

so this morning, in the office i googled up GEP

so it's short for Gifted Education Programme

in short, it is a an annual screening test for the cohort of P3 students

in which they will be tested on maths and nglish

my oh my...very interesting read indeed

in fact, i borrowed the blog title above from hedgehogcomms.blogspot.com

hope i won't be hit by copyright infringement issue here, certainly hope not

and then i googled some more

and i very much liked this one, taken from a forum thread :

well said!

now that i've smartened up a bit, having woken up from my blur sotong moments

i understand now what GEP is all about

hey, wait a minute....i've heard about GEP before

but now that it's my son's turn to kena GEP, i just have to know more about it

and after having known more about GEP, it doesn't change things one bit

GEP is not an ugly thing, to my opinion

it is when parents start to pressure and put high expectations on a child and that's when it turns ugly

which brings me back to the red bold phrase above

but of course, i am one laid-back parent to the point of being totally clueless

hhmmm....that's not a good thing is it?

hhmmm...maybe i should sit for GEP test myself

Gifted Education for Parents

and oh, i so love the weather in ramadhan

showers late at night till the wee hours in the morning

Ya Allah, You are THE BEST!!!