Recently, because we haven’t got a maid (yes AGAIN!!!), things have been very busy at the home front. The Hubs and I both work very hard and T1, as a result of having to do Year 4 work, works very hard too. Needless to say, we are all stressed!!! Because the Hubs hasn’t a clue just how much time and effort (blood and sweat!) I put into raising these kids of ours, I decided that enough was enough. Every time he cared for them, they were on their best behaviour so he could never see why I had so much to bitch about whenever he came home from work!

I told him that from here on, he was responsible for T1’s school – that covered anything from ensuring she completed her homework to making sure she brought the right books to school daily to knowing when she had exams and knowing what she had to bring to school for special projects (lots of these!), to packing for extra-curriculur activities at school to packing snacks to reading her homework journal daily so he knows what teachers are asking for to making sure she is above water at school.

He said NO PROBLEM!

HA. HA. HA.

It’s been more than 2 weeks now and I hear a lot of shouting whenever he coaches her with her homework. It’s not that she cannot do the work, she isn’t focused. She’d do a few sums and the next thing you know, she’d be playing with her sister somewhere far away from her work desk and truly forgotten that there is work still to do. But you know, he fails to remember, SHE IS SEVEN YEARS OLD, for goodness sake!!! She just wants to play all the time!!!

What were we all doing at 7???

Anyway, the Hubs’s stress with his new responsibility has resulted in threatening our dearest T1 that if she doesn’t buck up and start taking her work more seriously, he’d be pulling her out of International School and sending her to Chinese School. On top of that, he adds salt and pepper to terrorise her about the horrors of Chinese School so that she  really does buck up out of fear. *rolls eyeballs* That is SO traditional Chinese School style, isn’t it? He has absolutely no intention of sending her to Chinese School of course, as he is a firm believer in the International Curriculum. All I can say is he’ll be getting a good whipping tonight. Let’s hope he doesn’t enjoy it.

Today, I found this in her school bag:

A whole stack of little notes from a pocket note book with petition notes from all her friends at school (all 17 of them because she’d run out of time!), begging T1’s father not to send her to Chinese School because of reasons A-B-C-D. I couldn’t believe it. What raced through my mind was what the heck the Hubs brainwashed her with whenever they were alone on the way to school each morning! And what the heck inspired her to get her friends all to come together for one purpose which was to keep her with them??? Is a 7 year old capable of this???

The Hubs and I had a good laugh about it and we concluded that it must be T1’s early exposure to picketing at our area since she was a baby. Certain developments, namely the ones who built that shopping mall atop the hill nearby, keep threatening to build a new condo at our area which meant cutting trees down from our jungle and T1 has been in the newspapers thrice fighting to save our trees, the green lung of Kuala Lumpur. This girl certainly knows how to find a means to an end.

 

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