Easter Holidays first day over with
April 3rd 2007 10:04
Yesterday was the first day of the Easter Holidays and with it came a beautiful sun shiny day although a bit windy. I'd arranged Sunday night with my sister Emma that we'd take Callum and her two children (Eloise and Alex) over to a new park I'd heard about and let them run off some of their energy.
So yesterday morning Callum was all excited about seeing his cousins after lunch and going over the park, he hasn't seen them for a couple weeks. Unfortunately my sister phoned around 11am to say she'd woken up feeling ill and couldn't make it. After a few tears and questions of "Why can't I see Eloise and Alex?" I managed to calm Callum down and told him that I'd still take him to the park.
A bit later than planned (about 1.45pm) we left home. This park we were heading to I'd heard a few of the Mum's up at Callum's playschool talk about and mention how it had recently been done up and the playground all newly kitted out. From there instructions it didn't seem like it was that far a walk from us (yes I'm one of those people who don't drive, not through lack of trying though! LOL!) but boy was I wrong, it took us thirty minutes to walk there!
There's an advert on the tele (I can't think what it is for) but it basically shows typical British behaviour when there is the tiniest amount of sunshine with everyone rushing out to make the most of it. Aaahh having now googled it I found out it's an advert for Boots Sun Cream and here is the youtube clip of it. Yesterday over the park reminded me of that advert, it was packed full to bursting. It's nice to see so many children out and about and enjoying the sunshine though (my sister and I have taken our boys over the park in the pouring rain and had the best time ever!) as so often you see parks over here empty and the children just sitting and loitering around places such as McDonalds. I think it's sad to see our Parks so empty nowadays, I remember as a child of various ages playing over the park and seeing larger groups of kids playing nicely and anyone was welcome to join in on a game of football. I understand that sadly we aren't allowed to give our children the freedom we ourselves had as there seems a lot more evil in the world (although it could always have been there) and you don't feel it is safe to allow your child to go to the park on their own for fear of a stranger whisking them off or children of their own age thinking it funny to pick fights.
Anyway I disgress from the report of the day.
So we get to the playground and it's teeming with children, all of whom apparently are Callum's friends and he knows them all from playschool, yet he was unable to tell me the names of any of them apparently it's a secret. Hmmm. My Little Monkey Monster is straight into to chasing around all the children and trying to join in with their games and going on the slides and so on. And then a problem arose. Callum had latched onto one particular boy and girl and you could clearly see that they didn't want him hanging around with them, the boy must have been aged about 6/7 years old and the girl a little older, Callums only 3.5 years old so you maybe understand why. Callum just wouldn't get the hint though and kept running after them and trying to talk to them, I did try my hardest to explain to him that not all children will want to play with him but something that son of mine is is stubborn! Then I overheard the boy asking the girl if they could go home because of Callum, how bad did I feel? So not knowing if it was the right choice I told Callum that we were leaving, that's when the tears started. You know you see those Mum's with the screaming children and feel so sorry for the Mum, well I was "that" mum yesterday. I'd thought that I could just take him out of the playground for a bit and sit him down with a drink and a snack and try and explain about not chasing children around all the time as some don't like it. Seriously I'm at my wits end with what to do with this, for want of a bettter word, problem. Callum is an extremely friendly child and he sees everyone and everything as his friend but sadly not all children reciprocate (and I know my spelling is way off with that today) and I worry that one day he'll pick the wrong child to want to be friendly with. How do you explain to a 3.5 year old about these things?
I tried my best to explain to him yesterday and I think at some points he did understand. I managed to stop the crying (thank you Smarties) and bring that lovely smile of his back. We even had a photo moment:
Callum saw the tree and rushed over and tried to use his Superman strength to push it up... as you can guess the tree is still at an angle but he tried his hardest. He was fascinated by it.
I then braved the playground again and all was going well until when I'd managed to persuade him it was hometime two of his friends from playschool turned up... that was another ten mintues in the park. Eventually we're leaving the playground and heading out of the park on our way home YAY! And then heading towards us is a family of Mum, Nan and three boys with a football kicking about. Now Callum loves football and he still isn't grasping this home-time thing and so thinks it highly funny to run off after them and play football and totally ignore me calling for him to stop... so that was another five minutes and more tears.
And the thought of another advert... thank you again youtube came to my mind and I was so so so tempted to do what that Mum did myself but I held back and just gritted my teeth.
Somehow we made it home although I did have to deal with Callum telling me through tantrum tears that he needed a wee wee and shouting out at the top of his voice that his willy hurt.
So all in all the first day of the holidays started off with good intentions and ended with Callum and I still best friends but had lost of tears and cross words in between. Today I think we'll have a lazy day at home and do some art stuff even though someone did have the cheek to tell me that we were going over the park again today.
Oh I forgot there was one more thing with that cheeky little monkey monster...Hubby and I collect comic books and so from an early age Callum has known about a lot of superhero characters. Lately he's been into pretending he is Superman (Daz is Batman and I'm Supergirl by the way), we yesterday in the playground Callum decided he needed to do his little superhero bit which was funny.He kept doing the typical superman flying pose and saying "Right who needs help? I need to find someone in trouble." I'm now wondering whether it was such a good idea to make him a geek so young.
So yesterday morning Callum was all excited about seeing his cousins after lunch and going over the park, he hasn't seen them for a couple weeks. Unfortunately my sister phoned around 11am to say she'd woken up feeling ill and couldn't make it. After a few tears and questions of "Why can't I see Eloise and Alex?" I managed to calm Callum down and told him that I'd still take him to the park.
A bit later than planned (about 1.45pm) we left home. This park we were heading to I'd heard a few of the Mum's up at Callum's playschool talk about and mention how it had recently been done up and the playground all newly kitted out. From there instructions it didn't seem like it was that far a walk from us (yes I'm one of those people who don't drive, not through lack of trying though! LOL!) but boy was I wrong, it took us thirty minutes to walk there!
There's an advert on the tele (I can't think what it is for) but it basically shows typical British behaviour when there is the tiniest amount of sunshine with everyone rushing out to make the most of it. Aaahh having now googled it I found out it's an advert for Boots Sun Cream and here is the youtube clip of it. Yesterday over the park reminded me of that advert, it was packed full to bursting. It's nice to see so many children out and about and enjoying the sunshine though (my sister and I have taken our boys over the park in the pouring rain and had the best time ever!) as so often you see parks over here empty and the children just sitting and loitering around places such as McDonalds. I think it's sad to see our Parks so empty nowadays, I remember as a child of various ages playing over the park and seeing larger groups of kids playing nicely and anyone was welcome to join in on a game of football. I understand that sadly we aren't allowed to give our children the freedom we ourselves had as there seems a lot more evil in the world (although it could always have been there) and you don't feel it is safe to allow your child to go to the park on their own for fear of a stranger whisking them off or children of their own age thinking it funny to pick fights.
Anyway I disgress from the report of the day.
So we get to the playground and it's teeming with children, all of whom apparently are Callum's friends and he knows them all from playschool, yet he was unable to tell me the names of any of them apparently it's a secret. Hmmm. My Little Monkey Monster is straight into to chasing around all the children and trying to join in with their games and going on the slides and so on. And then a problem arose. Callum had latched onto one particular boy and girl and you could clearly see that they didn't want him hanging around with them, the boy must have been aged about 6/7 years old and the girl a little older, Callums only 3.5 years old so you maybe understand why. Callum just wouldn't get the hint though and kept running after them and trying to talk to them, I did try my hardest to explain to him that not all children will want to play with him but something that son of mine is is stubborn! Then I overheard the boy asking the girl if they could go home because of Callum, how bad did I feel? So not knowing if it was the right choice I told Callum that we were leaving, that's when the tears started. You know you see those Mum's with the screaming children and feel so sorry for the Mum, well I was "that" mum yesterday. I'd thought that I could just take him out of the playground for a bit and sit him down with a drink and a snack and try and explain about not chasing children around all the time as some don't like it. Seriously I'm at my wits end with what to do with this, for want of a bettter word, problem. Callum is an extremely friendly child and he sees everyone and everything as his friend but sadly not all children reciprocate (and I know my spelling is way off with that today) and I worry that one day he'll pick the wrong child to want to be friendly with. How do you explain to a 3.5 year old about these things?
I tried my best to explain to him yesterday and I think at some points he did understand. I managed to stop the crying (thank you Smarties) and bring that lovely smile of his back. We even had a photo moment:
Callum saw the tree and rushed over and tried to use his Superman strength to push it up... as you can guess the tree is still at an angle but he tried his hardest. He was fascinated by it.
I then braved the playground again and all was going well until when I'd managed to persuade him it was hometime two of his friends from playschool turned up... that was another ten mintues in the park. Eventually we're leaving the playground and heading out of the park on our way home YAY! And then heading towards us is a family of Mum, Nan and three boys with a football kicking about. Now Callum loves football and he still isn't grasping this home-time thing and so thinks it highly funny to run off after them and play football and totally ignore me calling for him to stop... so that was another five minutes and more tears.
And the thought of another advert... thank you again youtube came to my mind and I was so so so tempted to do what that Mum did myself but I held back and just gritted my teeth.
Somehow we made it home although I did have to deal with Callum telling me through tantrum tears that he needed a wee wee and shouting out at the top of his voice that his willy hurt.
So all in all the first day of the holidays started off with good intentions and ended with Callum and I still best friends but had lost of tears and cross words in between. Today I think we'll have a lazy day at home and do some art stuff even though someone did have the cheek to tell me that we were going over the park again today.
Oh I forgot there was one more thing with that cheeky little monkey monster...Hubby and I collect comic books and so from an early age Callum has known about a lot of superhero characters. Lately he's been into pretending he is Superman (Daz is Batman and I'm Supergirl by the way), we yesterday in the playground Callum decided he needed to do his little superhero bit which was funny.He kept doing the typical superman flying pose and saying "Right who needs help? I need to find someone in trouble." I'm now wondering whether it was such a good idea to make him a geek so young.
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