Motivation

Back to School

So I visited school today after the sudden decision to shut down on March 8th. The security aunty was gleaming with delight after seeing some movement in school.
 I miss the excitement of children early morning, the chaos during lunch time, the gathering of children near my table with a million questions, rushing up and down to take classes, the horrid tea I have inspite of knowing that 😉, the staffroom gossips, correcting notebooks, art work and so on.
It was deserted and dusty today, with painting going on in the building. Didn't know where to begin. Took a good 45 minutes, although 30 minutes was my estimate, to clear up my books.
I was happy to see my potted plants are being watered. I thanked Miskin bhayya for tajing good care of them on my way home. Hoping everything returns to normalcy soon.

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Chocos Mania

G has lately got the Chocos Mania. It started with one her school friends bringing Chocos as her snack, regularly to class, so much that, she started generously giving G without herself eating. G would have her pockets filled with it when she comes home. She gives 2 for L, 2 for Mama and 2 for Papa. The rest of it, she would her munched on, all the way back from school in her bus. Anways now we have bought Chocos for her seeing that she would else keep getting them from her friends all the time. But she has got so used to keeping her pockets filled with it, that even now she empties the chocos from her snack-box into her pocket. She come homes from school with remains of chocos all smudged over her face and hands, goes the same with her pockets too.

Toy Animals

It was supposed to be a Science exhibiton for L on Friday. The topic was Animals and their homes. It was on short notice and so we were not able to prepare anything as a model. Instead L told that we could take toy animals (as suggested by her teacher) and put it on any of the exhibits. So finally the toy animals (bought some 6 years back) which were lying in the depths of the toy bucket, would see light after being invisible to my kids for months together. Few of them were missing as we were searching for the whole set of toy animals. Few of them were missing but Hey!, something is better than nothing ! And so she had packed whatever was there on wednesday itself and took it to school on thurday. Thursday evening my kids come back from school saying that they have a holiday on Friday on account of the Solar Eclipse. Holiday for a Solar Eclipse?? haven't heard of holiday like that for a long time. My Friday free time's gone for a toss due to this Eclipse.

And so what happened to the Science Exhibiton? It is posptoned to Saturday ,I guess. Also it is L's Open House on Saturday and so we parents get to see the exhibiton too.

Fancy Dress

G had fancy dress on Monday . They have this every month to make the child familiar with the themes they r trying to teach in school . The theme this time was Fruits and Vegetables. It isn't compulsory . Since she is too small to understand what' s going on, I thot of making it very simple for her. She loves mangoes. So I Poster Painted a big yellow mango with a green leaf, made her wear a yellow dress and pinned the picture on to her. I even made her rehearse a line saying that she was a mango....hehe. She had to a wear a jacket that day since it was raining. She was also having small cold. So I had pinned a Hanky too.

So there she was with the mango pinned on one side and the hanky on the other side. Even before she got into the bus , the picture came off ...then we somehow pinned it up once again. When she came home from school I asked her about the picture. She told she gave it to the teacher. I had told her earlier that if it came off that she should hand it over to the teacher. She also told me that she told the teacher that she was a mango. That was enuff to make me feel happy.

Attitude

Its been a month now that my yunger girl's going to school. She has not been feeling well for the past 2 days. Yd night she went to bed with cough and a blocked nose . Today morning she was not getting up. I thot let her sleep and take rest today, i was feeling paavam for her. Today she gets up saying she wants to go to school. I really felt happy to hear that. I wanted to give her medicine before she left. Other than Honey and turmeric( home remedy) ,i thot of giving her Chericof(cough syrup), so that she will get temporary releif from cough atleast during school hours. She didn't want it coz of its bitter taste. I tried telling her that she'll be better if she takes it, even tho its bitter. She said: "Its ok Mama, let there be cough". I just love that Attitude.

Single Parent Family

My elder girls is in Std 2. Her school follows the ICSE Board. They have got loads to study and most of the time ,we moms have to study first and then teach them. They have a chapter in Social Studies on family. I don't know how it was a few years ago, but now they have introduced a new kind of Family in the book due to the changing trend in the world. They need to learn about small family,large family, Joint family and "Single Parent family". When we sat down to study the chapter she asks me what is single parent family tho its clearly mentioned that its a family which has only one parent.

She tells :" Our family become Single parent family when DAd goes to Kerala with G(my yunger girl) for a few days, right?" We all smiled listening to her idea. She thinks the Single parent family is just a temporary situation in Life. At this age Kids r really curious about anything and everything. They won't be able to understand certain things inspite of explaining. But in order to satisfy her curiousity, gave her many examples. One example we gave is, when a parent passes away and so on. She felt sad when i mentioned it. She asks me"Will u die?". Then I had to explain that . She's got an idea by now,i guess. Sometimes it just so exhausting answering so many questions. I really Thank the Lord that there r 2 parents here.

No Junk Food

Like many moms, I too worry bout my kids getting addicted to Junk Food. Kids are so fond of Lays,Burgers,Pizza,Bicuits, Fries etc. HAving them once in a while isn't harmful, but having them regularly over a period of time, make them addicted to such stuff. It is the responsibilty of us parents, to keep our these habits from invading our kids. Initially I would pack my kids snacks with all these ready-to-eat food but these days we try our best to avoid such snacks, as we found that our kids keep asking for such snacks all the time. With many lifestyle diseases prevalent, its better that we teach our kids from childhood the importance of including fruits and vegetables into our daily diet to remain healthy. Thankfully my kids' school has a snack chart and they have strictly DISallowed Junk Food from class 1 onwards, during snak time and lunch time. Their weekly chart is as follows:

Monday-fruits

Tuesday-sprouts

wednesday-vegetables(grated carrot)

Thursday -dry fruits

Friday-Fruit salad

This method help parents too .

One Snack which my kids have begun to like is this simple Easy-to- make Veg Sandwich.

It needs the following:

2 slices of Brown Bread

Butter to be spread on one side

Very thins slices of cucumber and tomato just enuff to fill in the 2 slices

A little salt and a little pepper.

First time to School

School time can be no fun, specially if the child is attending it the first time. The past 10 days were tearful times for my yunger child. She intially wanted very badly to go to school like her elder sis, but when her time came, she cudn't handle it as we(her parents ) thought. These past days, she wud be crying really badly, when i would be dressing her up in her uniform.But today, on the 9th day of her school, she finally has settled. Today she went happily and we as parents were so happy to see her going joyfully. Basically, its easy to know in what mood she is in ,every time. When she's really happy ,she hums a tune to herself and her joy is contagious. Well! today thats what she did. And I, as a mom is very proud of her.