Mom’s Daily

One of my son has the kind of fanatic streak like me. If I like something, I will pursue it till the ends of the earth. I guess he got this crazy streak from me because he also get very engrossed with anything that interest him.

Recently, he got interested in reflective materials. The tailor here charges a very exorbitant price for phats. I told him that I cannot afford a RM400 pair of baggy jeans for him because it will means I have to spend the same amount of money for his other brothers as well. We have this rule in the family, we try to be fair to every kid so anything that is deemed frivolous have to wait.

So, he bargained with us to instead import the materials. He is very thorough in his research. He negotiated for the imports of the materials and he even learnt to sew! We also bought him a sewing machine. Yes, the total amount we spent is more than RM400. Probably, we had spent 10 time of that.

But what matters is he is interested to get involve in this fashion stuffs and spend his time improving on the quality and designs. He has never sewn a phat before, of course. But he could sew toddler size.

For my hubby and I, as long as they show an interest in something, we will encourage it. Never mind that some of those get put aside as ‘hangat-hangat tahi ayam’ (i.e. lost of interest). Never try , never know.

He even keeps an account and very business-minded and is making some profits from his sale.