Strong Wind Signal No. 3 has been “in force” all day (as at press time) so Kindergarten is closed, no school for Rockstar (in other words Let’s All Swing From The Ceiling Lights And Drive Our Mums Crazy Day)… I completely missed lunch and a chiropractor’s appointment trying to keep up with Rockstar and owe my doctor a giant, grovelling apology. (It’s weird to bring your doctor flowers for forgetting to reschedule right?) Finally during a brief respite we run over to the clubhouse past X-taped glass doors to find it as expected, more crowded than we’ve ever seen it, mostly with kids, mums and helpers all going out of their mind.
Some of the helpers were taking turns playing pool and video games in the swanky club house arcade (not many mums in the arcade <sheepish> when we went up to the indoor play area there were a lot more, busy entertaining their kids)… And then I snapped this pic while we were waiting for the rain to stop so we could duck back across the road and home:
- There are no words…
This is a picture of a helper across the road from where we were inside the clubhouse, shielding herself from the rain + T3 wind while the two children in her care walk in the rain. In case you wondered if it was actually raining, note the umbrella-ed lady nearby trying to get additional shelter despite being under a bus stop shelter. (And no, the kids are not in raincoats, in case my cellphone pic is too grainy.)
Poor kids. The helper should really have brought more umbrellas with her.
To be fair we do still see some kids with mums (similarly indifferent to the rain- one mum who was Caucasian told me she thinks it’s good for the kids) run around playing in light rain n I’m not too fussed about light rain either because I hate carrying umbrellas…
It was the attitude displayed, that got me- if u can feel the rain and decide u need an umbrella then surely the kids can too.. So when I saw them I was thinking does the attitude carry over to other areas of these kids’ care…
With a previous helper, I once came home at lunch hour to find a stranger standing at the door. I was still exiting the lift all the way down the corridor but as I got closer and my then helper opened the door (without checking who it was), she then started at the stranger (who turned out to be another helper none of us knew, returning something, but got the wrong apartment). My then helper realized her mistake but did not close the door or stop the stranger as she walked right into our living room and up to gaping 2yr old Rockstar. By then I had reached the entrance to our home and realized my previous helper was now hiding behind the door, the stranger was right in our living room looking around and Rockstar had been left to stand there, 2 feet from the stranger and looking wide eyed and straight up at her. One of the reasons that helper is no longer with us.
That must have shocked you – to think that the stranger could have just snatched Rockstar and run away with him. Can’t side with your ex-helper on this case.