It is minutes to 7 am. I am wanting to just crawl back under the covers and snuggle with my sleeping children. (Sanj is at the gym). Life is too fast with school constantly beckoning. In the morning, it is nagging… hurry up… get ready! In the evening, it is again whining about the homework! Give me a break.
I give my kids a break every once in a while. A mental health day, someone called it. A day to just hang out with me and get some one on one time. (Well… usually Josh is in the mix)! Sometime they are really just more tired than sick… but I give in and let them stay home.
This drives Sanj nuts. He says I am a push over. Maybe I just remember the woes of school every day. Maybe if we played hooky a little bit more, we wouldn’t go over the edge so easily.
Maybe I just like having them all to myself. This is my time to really connect with them.
This is another area Sanj and I are different. He loves school… thus the pursuit for his doctorate. I would truly die if I had to go to school again. Just the thought of taking classes to pursue a career in real estate… has me stressed out.
Oh well… I think I am right in this matter. At the end of the day… the boys aren’t going to brag about never missing a day of school. (Yuck… who would want to do that)? But I do hope years from now they will remember the special treats of going out to lunch, hanging out and being able to just relax…
So much pressure is placed on kids today. In elementary school they are learning stuff I learned in high school… such as the periodic table. So much pressure is placed on them so young.
I find the whole thing kind of sad… that at such a young age… time seems to be a shortage.
Oh I have plenty of thoughts on this… but maybe this is all my weird way of thinking.