Ever since Alycia started attending Standard 1, she has been severely sleep deprieved. Each morning, she gets up at 6am sharp, leaves the house when the skies are still dark and on most days arrive home by 2pm. Twice a week when she has Han Yu Pin Yin class and Calligraphy class, she comes home at 4pm. After a quick snack, off she’ll go for swimming at 5pm or attend Mandarin tuition. If she’s given homework by her school teacher, she would have to hurriedly complete it before she eats dinner.
By the time she finishes her dinner, she is dead tired and would knock off by 8:30-9pm. Thank God Alycia is quite a disciplined child and very independent. I leave almost everything to her and she can take care of herself (shower, dress up, dries her hair with a hair dryer, clips her nail herself, prepares herself for school every morning with minimal supervision from me, completes homework without nagging from me, etc, etc). She knows that she has to sleep early so that she can wake up without feeling groggy the next morning and will obediently go to bed by 9pm, plus read a story book without being told at times.
One afternoon last week, she was so burnt out that the moment she stepped into the house, she walked to the couch and then dozed off. After an hour of nap, she woke up and only had her lunch at 3ish pm! Life is indeed tough for school kids these days.
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