A Mother’s Monologue

Over the last school holidays, I took Tee to experience the above event at KLCC. The fee was RM6 for adults and free for kids below 5. It was no big deal for me as I was involved in the actual construction of Petrosains 10 years ago but to the kids, well, I suppose it was of some entertainment value, even if it did last for only an hour.

The entrance was a jumping on light box exercise where you had to jump on the correct answers whenever you heard the very muffled voice recording ask a General Knowledge question about dinosaurs. This should have been designed better. You can’t have a gadget targeted at a certain age group and then allow all age groups to experience it. It will not only not work, but it may screw up your computerisations!

The first electronical dinosaur which moved. Expensive machine!

Tee kept asking me if this was a real dinosaur when she saw this dinosaur moving and making noises. It was quite funny. Younger kids would find it scary……but as soon as I assured her that it wasn’t real, she was fine with it. See? So much trust she has in her mother

This was the sand pit where kids got to hunt for fossils. On the far left in grey, is Tee’s boyfriend. This sand pit was probably the highlight of the whole room.

Moving onto electronical games…..Tee was frustrated because she had to wait so long for her turn, and even more frustrated when the boy who was hogging the game didn’t know how to play it. She kept giving him instructions (which he probably didn’t even understand!) and telling him what to press etc. I just pretended I didn’t know her because she was being ever so bossy. What I really didn’t need was for a Mom to whack me over my head with a handbag.

Finally, she got to play with another game that got free and she was chuffed. Since she can read relatively fluently, she is independent when it comes to games and instructions without help. “So easy!!!”, she says.

Yes, everything to my little Tee is “SO EASY!!!” but when things are too difficult, then she’ll say, “I’m not interested to do that.”  There’s definitely cockiness in the genes.

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