i think the kids at playgroup went to ikea this morning.
they were supposed to go to the public playground but it’s still wet from yesterday’s rain, so i guess the teachers thought to bring them somewhere nice and dry as a pre-children’s day treat.
children’s day! haha! (as you can tell, i still can’t believe the whole my-child-is-in-school thing.)
anyway, dadam as usual refused to go to school in the morning. this boy’s got a lot of delaying tactics (just like me when i was small!) such as refusing to bathe, refusing to wake up, etc.
heck, i remember i used to recite to my own grandma this famous line when i was too lazy to go to preschool in the morning – “mummy cakap sekolah makan boleh ponteng, nanti sekolah betol tak boleh ponteng!”
ahh, what a DARLING i must have been. *rolls eyes*
so anyway, according to my mum, aniq became the self-appointed drill sergeant and took over today – he went to the tv and demanded “tup! tup!” (translation: “tutup tv”) and pushed dadam from behind and went “go! go! go!”, telling him to get a move on.
maybe he knew what an exciting time they were to have at school later.
back to children’s day, i hope they didn’t think to give out any ‘goodies’ either.
strangers, most notably adults (occasionally older kids, but that’s forgivable), just LOVE to offer sweets to small children, nevermind their age. it’s like a Standard Operating Procedure, they do it on auto-mode. “hello little boy/girl, what’s your name? you want a sweet?” *magically whips out a bottle of sweets and rattles it under little boy/girl’s nose in temptation*
like, hello! firstly, they, namely those below two, could choke on candies, especially the hard kinds, or even chewy kinds for that matters. all those warnings about toys with small parts as choking hazards? sweets are small parts, plus they taste AND look yummy, all the more incentive for these little guzzlers to gobble them up without a thought to suck first!
secondly, at least ask the permission of their parents before offering! i would rather not deal with the potential problems of sugar rush and rotten teeth, thank you very much, unless you intend to partake in the caring of a super-tornado child and future dentist bills. (and don’t tell me milk teeth don’t matter! i like them pearlies nice, white and unsullied by baby cavities for as long as possible, please.)
thirdly, there is zero nutritional value in sweets, is there? what’s there, glucose? fructose? wait, don’t they have that in, hmm, fruits? i’ve spent so much effort and $ in providing him with good stuff in his body, i’m not about to ruin it now over some damn candy, not on my watch! he”ll have a whole life ahead of him to ruin his body himself!
the other day when we visited my dad at the hospital, the boy had wandered outside the ward and came back with a piece of chocolate in his hand.
with NUTS!
at 9.30 PM!
courtesy of the NURSES!
where do i start?!
thank you nurses for dispensing with your chocolatey treat to match the ‘sweetness’ of the little boy, but isn’t there anywhere in the medical handbook that children under two years of age should refrain from eating nuts, in case of allergic reactions? ok, so he survived, but not after he rolled around for a whole hour in bed trying to sleep – chocs at night are a no-no in certain ngiao parents’ handbook after all!
bah.
ok, so i’m sure many veteran parents out there will snigger and smirk at the mad-control-freak-mommy rant above. i’m sure some proud parents have kids who are expert sweet-eaters/fizzy-drink drinkers/potato chip munchers at merely one year of age, and that they’re perfectly-behaved, wonderfully-adjusted and beautifully-developed. kudos to you and your flawless parenting skills, i am in awe!
but really, i’d really rather not take the risk. i’m new at this, so would rather err on the side of caution.
alamak. that reminds me…
hari raya coming up!
looks like the mad-control-freak-mommy has to switch on her vigilant mode on HIGH.
and all you aunties ah, please don’t lure him with colourful sweets when we visit, can?!
oh, and that also includes cherry ade/apple zest/grape f&n, etc.
and here i will do the makcik-makcik thang and say, “eh, kalau dia sakit, batok-batok, siapa yang kena jaga? maknyeeee jugak, tau! tolong sikit, eh! jangan nak susahkan orang!”
disclaimer: i admit that i AM okay with giving chocolates sometimes, if it comes in biscuits or breads or cakes or as dips. and i’ll most likely relent with the occasional kuih tat and choc chip cookie and kuih lapis, coz they’re much more interesting to taste and he loves trying out new foods. hey, i’m not THAT depriving ok. pfft! :p
“Our last four children were so junk food deprived that we seldom let a morsel of packaged, junk carbohydrates enter their mouths. Then, when they entered the world of junk food at birthday parties and preschool, we noticed that although they would delight in a piece of birthday cake or candy, they did not overdose. And if they did overindulge on junk carbohydrates, not only did the food taste foreign to them, they felt ill afterwards and would report having a case of “yuck tummy.” Because they had been fed nutritious food during the first three years, they made the connection between eating good and feeling good and eating bad and feeling bad. We had programmed them to crave nutritious foods and shun junk foods.”
- good ol’ Dr Sears
if only they’d make brocolli candy some day…
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