Copycat

Dearest Skyler,

One of the worries that we had when we registered you for school was your picking up undesirable habits from your classmates. This seems to have happened, Lil One.

You, on occasion, come back using language styles that we do not want you to pick up yet e.g. Singlish endings like 'lah' and 'one'. The funny thing is that sometimes you use them wrongly. We do understand that Singlish is part of our culture here and we do need to understand Singlish but we do hope that you do not use it as a norm, Lil One.

Other things are physical things that you do that make us less than happy. You've taken to putting your hair in your mouth and that's a terrible habit to pick up. When questioned, you would say that one of your classmates does that. We would rather you be the example than for you to pick up these actions from your classmates, Lil One.

Oh well ... we knew that these would happen. They are all somewhat harmless so far, Lil One. But we do want you to adopt what we want you to rather than pick up things from your classmates that we think is unsuitable, Darling.

Papa and Mama love you lots!