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.

12The 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! :)

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