A Bit of a Boring Day

With only one car and hubby needing priority over it for work, the school holidays are seeming a bit of a nightmare at the moment.

We’ve been on a train ride to Stratford, bike rides around the area and my sister is taking us to Warwick Castle tomorrow for the day, but I’m concerned about having bored children on my hands. 

If hubby gets home early afternoon I can at least get to the park and tonight a friend took the boys out for a couple of hours, but with another four weeks to go I’m at a bit of a loss.  There is only so much you can do in the house and garden.

Plus feeling a bit narky the beginning of this week, my usual creative get up and go has got up and gone.

Me thinks I need to draw up a plan of action.

I love having them at home even if, at times, the arguing between them gets a bit much and I’ve heard one too many scream from them.  I actually hate sending them to school and have often thought about home schooling, but the timing just hasn’t been right. 

I think as I’ve got older and some of the situations we’ve faced and dealt with I’ve become quite cynical about ‘the norm’.  For me (although I don’t share this thought with the children) school is just another institution that we are led to believe is the accepted path through life.

And now having had boys, I just don’t think schools accommodate them as they should.  For instance my eldest is in Year 5 and, according to the teachers this is a really difficult year to teach.  Hormones are kicking in with them and attitudes become sulky and questioning of everything.

So why then don’t the schools change their approach with their teaching of this year and give them far more physical activities.  They obviously need it and to be honest it’s not just this year.  Both my boys would much rather be at home and I guess that when my daughter starts school, it will be very different for her.

Girls like writing, making up stories and in general the educational process.  Boys don’t.  I’m not saying they shouldn’t be taught what they are being taught, but in a different way.

Goodness knows why I’m ranting about this tonight, perhaps it’s my ‘anti everything mood’ at the moment.  Or perhaps like any of us bloggers, it’s just a good way of getting things off your chest. 

So as Frasier used to say ‘thanks for listening’ or should that be ‘thanks for reading’.

PS  We are changing servers over the next 24 hours or so.  It shouldn’t really affect this site or Pink Champagne, but if there are any hiccups in the next few days, you’ll know why. 

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