Road Safety Town Trip

Doesn’t really qualify as a post, I just happened to take some pics of the Road Safety brochures from Rockstar’s recent school trip to the nearby Road Safety Town…

(Looking at the brochure, Rockstar would go, “Whozzat? The policeman speaking to us was a girl. And she wasn’t dressed anything like that.”)

Anyway like a dorky dork I read the whole comic strip and brochure out to him. There were so many things I hadn’t thought to tell him (thanks, HK police).

They had all these join-the-dots papers too… I should really stop being so tickled by “nothing,” but really the chim-looking chinese I can’t read impresses me every time <giant “L” on forehead>

And then there was the bus safety one…

Oh look at all the happy, spaced-out cartoon eyes… Like in that scene on a plane in Fight Club where Brad Pitt tells Edward Norton they drug the passengers and evidence of that is in the flight safety brochure where everyone is caricatured with really serene, glazed expressions even when the plane is about to crash…

That is a STUPID JOKE ok, please don’t anyone start saying I imply they sedate the kids on the school bus. (Not that it’s a bad idea, but…)

OKOKOK kidding kidding kidding.

Fine, came to what I really wanted to say.

Was really bummed about not being able to go because there were too many parents who’d wanted to go and must’ve been wayy ahead of me asking for slots… I had not even realized parents could go, until a reminder email was sent out. <Loser loser>

And then I confided in another parent on text message how bummed I felt about being that blur, particularly when feeling like I’d been struggling to keep up while handling Ms Rockstar – where upon I immediately got a “Parents can go meh?” call.

Rockstar would later tell me he’d seen said parent then bring her child direct (rather than travel from school after the first class or two) and stay on there (obviously she didn’t tell me she was going to do that).

When I was doing the ole’ WHY Didn’t I Think Of That, Should I Have? Forehead Slap, Rockstar goes, “But then I’d miss phonics.” (One of his favorites). It would seem I got satisfactory points (from The Rockstar) for having tried AND he’d rather have phonics than me going. I… should be happy. I guess. This is like when my son used to tell me “I’m busy, Mum,” when I was volunteering in Kindy (though he insists I should still go). But honestly this whole on-the-ball parenting thing in Hong Kong… I’m barely keeping up. (Better at least make sure I’m keeping up with his school work <ducks head>)

So maybe it’s a blog post after all.

Oh yeah, and look what he’s doing to Ms Rockstar, now she can almost sit up. They had their first confrontation today. He jumping up and down on sofa in front of her, and she…. I have never heard that sound coming from her before. It sounded a bit like a cat hissing. (Which is actually quite funny because she is a fairly small, un-fanged baby)

Balancing Act