Raising kids in Bali
This morning Ika took Jevon to a small local clinic, as his feces contained some blood. She told me before, that he sometimes struggles to go to the bathroom. I said he needs more water, but he doesn’t like plain water. Anyway Jevon looks healthy, and loves his mother’s milk. The climate over here means he sweats a lot, just like the rest of us and needs to replace that fluid.
He get 2 baths a day and by the time I get back from working out at 3.30pm he is ready for the last one. Ika has taken to pushing him round the porch in a laundry bin, to get him to sleep. Its works pretty well, and today I updated the system by tying a sarong to the basket, allowing me to stand while pulling him. He lasted about 30 seconds before falling asleep, head cocked off to the side.
My brother in-law Awang came over at 5.30pm,with a couple of water bottles. Jevon likes playing with them. Hopefully he’ll learn to like what’s inside them.
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Nick,
my kids don’t like plain water either. They love apple juice instead… yeah, who doesn’t?!
But, here in US there’s been many scary campaigns about diabetes in young early age of children.. it freaks me out, honestly.
Anyway, I put something in the plain water for my kids to drink. We love adding a slice of lemon and ice chips in plain water (they love ‘eating’ the chips). Also, plain ice tea (any kind of tea) with slice of lemon. Last resort, when my son had a BM problem, I’ll give him ‘a flavor’ of apple juice (really tiny amount of apple juice and lots…lots of cold water!). It’s been working so far. Speaking about 3-year old who started to take over ‘the command center’. 
My 1.5 yr old daughter takes anything to eat and drink… oh, only broccoli.
Hope this helps.
Dear Nick, nice to read about the day-to-day life of young Jevon. I like Bali very much, and have been twice. I am a Pom with a sister who’s now an Australian citizen, and have a small amount of far-eastern blood on my dad’s side. I feel very much at home in your part of the world. I envy you your laid-back lifestyle and hope to join the Bali expat crowd some day. Anyway, seeing as this post is supposed to be about Jevon, I have a question, has he said any word yet, and if so in which language?
John,
Nice to hear from you. Bali is a great place if you can let go of the minor day to day frustrations.
Living here probably seems idyllic, but most of the people I meet who live here have their own issues. Making a living in Bali means you have to work, just like anywhere else.
Jevon can say a couple of words including ‘Ning’, when he is around Ningrum. He also says ‘Mum’ and ‘Nenen’, which are Javanese for food and drink. Of course these words are somewhat blurry and open to interpretation.
hey nick, if anything you can add a small drop of juice to a bottle of water for jevon. i’m sure he’ll drink it up. he won’t drink plain water because his mama’s milk is much sweeter than water. g’luck. perhaps i’ll bump into you when i get to bali in may!