Weekend Job

I was waiting for my son to finish his music lesson today when I looked around at all the other mummies and daddies waiting for their assorted offspring when it suddenly hit me ... HEY! I'M ONE OF THEM! As of this year I am an official junior member the League of Parents Who Send Their Kids For All Kinds of Enrichment Lessons. Why a junior member? I haven't chalked up enough waiting outside classes time.

Some people think that I'm torturing my child. Every Saturday morning he goes for music lessons and in the afternoons he attends a phonics class. They say things like letting him enjoy his childhood and I'm tiring him out unnessarily and stuff like that. Most times I don't bother too much about comments like that. It's my kid and I can do what I like. If you want your child's brains to turn to mush, be my guest. Anyway, kids have limitless energy, any idiot with half a brain knows that.

In June, I plan to enrol my son for swimming lessons. What?? Another one you say? I really don't see why not. He enjoys going to the pool so he might as well learn how to survive in the water, unlike me who cannot do much apart from floating like a log. I believe in letting my children learn as much as they can so that they will not be at a disadvantage when they start primary school. At least they will not be sitting at home rotting their brains away from too much television and computer games. As it is they are turning into tv addicts. So these days I have a weekend job, as a personal chauffeur!