Alycia and Sherilyn will be sitting for their mid-term examination in a week’s time. So this weekend is spent doing revision with them. Each time I leave my work area to go to the bathroom or have a drink, these 2 monkeys will take the opportunity to have a jolly good time! They will dart away to where their baby sister is at the laptop or to the living room where the TV is. Once, I caught rascal #2 watching TV with the volume completely turned off! They will also furtively do something else like drawing, coloring, reading story books, reading the newspapers or stare into space the moment I turn my back on them. I tell you, getting them to seriously complete their work needs a ton of effort and very, very close ‘surveillance’, else they will stray. Sometimes in the midst of my busyness, I get fooled and it is only when my baby girl rats her che ches out and tattletales to me that I am aware that the 2 monkeys are doing everything else but their homework or revision.
Today I did Science revision with Alycia on magnetic objects, non-magnetic objects and conductor of electricity. I was explaining to Alycia that magnetic objects will be attracted to a magnet easily. Just a moment ago I went to the bathroom for a short while. The moment I stepped back to the dining table where Alycia and Sherilyn were seated to do revision, they were no where in sight. They were all at the kid’s desk with their baby sister, happily watching Barbie on You Tube and very oblivious that I was stare daggering at them! I hollered at them and they darted back to their respectively seats without batting an eyelid! I told Alycia that she and Sherilyn are like ‘magnetic objects’ that are easily attracted to magnet, which in the case is the laptop! And they burst out laughing.
Are your kids disciplined in doing their homework and revision for an exam? Or do they need you to be seated next to them throughout the revision? Oh by the way, I have a long cane at the revision table too!
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