Mich it seems that eboy is enjoying your SAHMness
Sorry Don Pie mummies. I became a pilot :S My gym membership is expiring so I really have to go so as not to waste any sessions.
Wow so many kiddos having school blues huh. Well here's the good news - they are our kids so they're really smart. Here's the tricky news - they're really smart so it's hard to con them!
My biggest challenge is breakfast. If I give milk in a bottle, it's guzzle guzzle guzzle and she finishes it in no time. The issue with that is that she will say "I'm not hungry" when presented with food after. But if it's milk with breakfast, it take FOREVER and a sprout a few white hairs in the process.
A little time in between milk and brekkie would be perfect. But who in the world has time in the morning for that? (Hollywood stars, don't answer that). And I can't feed her too late because... Lunch at playschool is early, at 1130. So she'll need time to digest brekkie first.
Don't feed at all also cannot because she doesn't get morning snack in school.
So until I find a solution, I will continue sprouting white hairs. But hey, any time I want to be called xiao Mei I just go to the market right?
As for the actual "going to school" part, poppy will drop everything when we ask "which shoes do you want?" and run to shoe cabinet (of which she is president of). Top that with a flash of her sunnies and we're set to go. The minute we unlock the gate she opens it and screams "finally! Freedom!" (I'm kidding) and she's out there, waiting for us slowpokes. :S
On days when there are "I don't wanna go to school" whines I will try to ignore and ask her things like "do you think you will have playground time today?" or "what will ____ (classmate) wear today?" or "will you paint? Draw? Colour? Read a book?" to distract her. But again, see point above re smart kids - when tried too many times, she can outsmart us too :S
Random thought : on days when it gets so frustrating you just want to pull your hair out (preferably white), don't you think it'd be so satisfying to work at an Ayam Penyet stall??