...is stay home and read! This is what the boys do immediately after coming home from school.
Me: Brian, there's a kids' activity for you at 5pm. Sean, mummy will take you swimming.
Brian: But I don't want to go! I want to stay at home!
Sean: I don't want to go either! I want to stay at home!
Me: But Sean, it's swimming, you like swimming right?
Sean: But I want to stay at home and read now.
NO!!! STOP!!! Go change NOW!!!
Boys whine a bit then realise they have no choice. They don't realise I don't exactly enjoy taking them out to do stuff, hey, I'm sacrificing my time too. I want to stay home too!
Eventually, they both enjoyed their respective activities.
One of the things I hope to do in Moscow is to make the boys more outdoorsy. Just get them out doing other stuff, instead of staying home so much. Part of the reason is to prevent them from doing too much near work, which I really think contributes lots to their short-sightedness. And it's just a more well-rounded existence, that's all!
(Brian's chinese name is Kar Wai and Sean's is Kar Weng. I always remember my mother-in-law commenting that because Kar means home, Brian will want to stay home lots!)
Since moving to Moscow, Sean has finally learnt to cycle (with training wheels of course), Brian is enjoying skipping rope lots (at his London school's skipping workshop, he couldn't muster one skip)...I try to take them for walks when the weather's nice, if not, to attend the kids' activities that are organised for children who live in the development. Eg, yesterday Sean attended yoga and Brian did aikido. Everything's conducted in Russian though, but they get by.
And in school, swimming's part of PE, even for Sean's age, and come winter proper, ice-skating will be taught too.
So wish me luck as I try to turn my little bookworms into tough sportsmen :)
Friday, September 14, 2007
All they wanna do...
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Haha... you SAHM fretting about her SAHBoys???
Seriously, ice-skating sounds fun. Have fun, boys! Fresh and cold air is good. :)
SAHBs! LOL!
Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as a well-rounded person. I certainly haven't met one. You can only fight so much against a person's natural tendencies/inclinations.
Thing is I'm not sure if it's the boys' natural inclinations or bcos they have a lazy mum who doesn't ever take them out.
So I just wanna see how things go if I make an effort and get my butt out of the house. It's not easy for me. As it is, I'm back to lazy mum mode today and the boys are right behind me now lying on the sofa bed reading!
How do you do that? I mean how did you cultivate a bookworm? Does it matter if I am not a bookworm myself? hehe
Haha, cultivate a bookworm?? You sure you wanna do that? You run the risk of raising 4-eyed nerds (though I wouldn't knock nerds, since they do rule the world).
I dunno man, I'm definitely not a bookworm (unless you consider trashy tabloids books), but I could well be a book junkie. LOVE LOVE LOVE buying books.
Do your boys like National Geographic for Kids?
I only bought that magazine once, in London, and they didn't seem too keen. I only bought that issue bcos it had a planet mobile to be made. Lots of snippets of information but maybe too busy, colours everywhere.
Why do you ask?
I was thinking of ordering Nat Geog for Little Kids online. Bryan loved it when we were going through an adult issue while waiting for our appointment in the dental clinic.
Try it and let me know how Bryan likes it. The cover price in UK was quite expensive for a little magazine like that.
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