All About Your Child

My routine  is a complete mess-up during School Holidays. I cannot do what I could on school days, like Blog-Hop! Ok ok, blame it on my lack of efficiency…*pout*

Sometimes parents have too high expectation on themselves, thus finding it a frustration thinking about how to keep the kids entertained during this period. Over the years I realize keeping it simple is what the kids what.

Finally, Keatkeat’s chicken pox scars aren’t as obvious, hence yesterday, we decided to head for the pool after our last visit 2 months ago!

Before we left the house……

Keatkeat: “Mommy, why are you not putting your swimming costume in the bag?”

Me: “Mommy is wearing ‘pampam’, so I am not swimming today.”

Keatkeat: “Take out the ‘pampam’ lah. OH NO NO NO!!! You cannot!!! The swimming pool will be red colour because of your blood!! I think you just sit there and look after our bags and play Papa’s handphone game…..”

Me: *laugh* “Yes, I will look after your bags and play Papa’s handphone game.”

*eyes rolled*

School Holiday is a time when there are less rules within the four walls.

Computer-games-is-on-Friday had changed to computer-games-is-everyday-for-an-hour.

Sleep-because-you-have-school-tomorrow had changed to sleep-because-mommy-have-no-strength-to-entertain-you-anymore.

Play-because-your-worksheets-are-done had changed to play-because-you-have-the-right-to (this week).

School Holidays SHOULD be different, shouldn’t it?

To many parents, school holidays is the BEST TIME to catch up on school work, to give extra tuition on weak subjects like maths *faint*, to learn what is to be taught when school reopens, believing that learning ahead is the key to better grades.

To me, that’s scary. But different parents have different priorities, so I’m not here to say right or wrong, there are just too many Grey areas in life which we should not waste too much time debating on.

Yesterday, we spent half the day with my PIL and my favourite niece, ZY. Now that my eldest SIL had been retrenched, what better opportunity is there than this week of no-school days to bring her children back to Malaysia to visit her parents.

ZY, who has NEVER been closed to her parents naturally stayed in Singapore and keep the old folks occupied. My MIL often say, “ZY is more like my daughter than my granddaughter.” How true! No one in the family has ever rebutted that sentence.

The trio came over to my house yesterday.

The adults spend time chatting while the kids had snap-snap and munch-munch fun under the big umbrella.

What a way to kick off the school holidays. Nice! :)