I can't recall now when I was younger, how did my mom or grandma handled me during school holiday. I only remembered that I was playing whole day and not at home, I was out in the field or in my friend's or neighbour's house. And I remembered too I was out of house after breakfast, then back to house for a while for lunch, then took a nap and back to field until late evening. In other words, I was playing whole day without any intellectual activities (doing school subjects' practices) nor was I enrolled in any talent's practices (piano playing, drawing and etc) . Those were all the happy moment....It's about playing, playing and playing. No responsibility to do anything...
Now, when it's my turn to be the mother or guardian. The environment had changed completely. It's no longer safe to let young children going out of the house and play. We got to lock ourselves up in the house most of the time. So, energetic young children like mine had no way to disperse their energy. They in turn will be playing in the house. They would bring out the toys and played and not wanted to keep as they had a so called valid excuse of "I want to play again, so I won't be keeping it until the next game"...But then they won't continue on the game, they will start to turn on the TV and stayed in front of the TV for a very long time. Then my living hall looked very much like being broken into by few burglars. Soon, I would start to make noise, then they will only push the toys to the side, things were still pretty messy.
But I can't be after them all the time, soon there will be meals time and I got to get prepared for food. Besides, school holiday is a time to travel and going back home. We would be missing from our house almost every weekend. So, after almost 2 months, my house looked horrible. I felt so bad if any friends come to visit me. But at the same time, I was having headache don't know how to put things back cause that's not what I was good at. It also explained why my children were messy most of the time.
So, whenever school holiday come; I feel like going off for a long break. But too bad, my children are still too young to take care of themselves and my hubby need to work. And I don't have the heart to ask both my mom or my mom in law to take care of the children. They are too old to be given the responsibility. But my mom in law was very kind to offer help whenever I need. My son being the most energetic kid was depressed too in a way as he would be constantly asking for his basketball game but I don't have time to bring him out. So, he will start making all sort of funny actions to agitate me. So much so that I got to get my mom in law to look after him for 1 week in Rembau.
Now, I am on my way to be back to normal. But it shall not be long as Chinse New Year is round the corner....
wrote on 11 Jan 12
KF
