Justme,
sometimes i face the same pressure to push natalie to learn her numbers, shapes, ABCs, colours, etc. Sometimes, i raise my voice at her because she forgot her ABCs, when she knew them like yesterday. Just a day went by n she forgot them already. Then my hubby told me, its no good to push her to learn because she might not like learning in future n worse, she will be afraid of making mistakes because mummy will scold her, these might cause her to dislike learning.
So I thought, just let her play n sometimes i just bring out the cards I made to refresh her memory about the alphabets n numbers. I think she remembers better this way. She can recognise a lot of the letters of the alphabet n she has learnt the numbers from 0 to 20. I constantly remind myself, she is only 2!! She already knew quite a lot of things, she is also learning to speak mandarin. She might be slower than her peers who goes to school, i dont know, and i dont want to compare, she will learn at her own pace.
I feel that going out for walks is good. Do you often bring Sarah n your boy for walks? Natalie n I like to go for walks, at least we get out of the house n breathe some fresh air.
We also go to friends' place to play. This way, I get to have adult conversation with my kaki n natalie gets to play with her friend.
Oh, and housework, its ok to let the home gets messy, i think our sanity is more important than a sparkling clean home.
Just my personal opinion.