Some of the activities that I have planned for the girls during the school holidays include :
1) Doing Math exercises every other day. It’s tough to get rascal #2 to complete a unit of Kumon Math equations. Tons of nagging and threats are needed everyday. The moment I’m out of her sight, this fella will be up to mischief!! So my rule is “no TV, no snacks, no play and no dinner if your Math is not finished!”. It works on my hard-headed girl and sometimes tears shedding happens too. Just last night, I didn’t allow her to eat her dinner when she took 3 hours to complete 1 page of Kumon subtraction.  She finally finished them all and I allowed her dinner at 8pm. *evil mum but I’m doing her good *
2) Doing other subjects like BM, English and Science for Alycia. I bought some very good worksheets for her from a book store that specializes in primary school worksheets and workbooks in Ipoh.
3) Playing educational games and reading from the laptop that I had newly bought for my 2 older girls
4) Reading a book everyday.
5) Swimming, drawing and even getting them to massage me as I am having aches and pains all over my body as a result of lifting too much weights in the gym haha!
Here’s Alycia reading a BM story book. My mum got her this book from Tesco and it only cost a few ringgit. There is a collection of more than 10 famous fairy tales, translated into BM in this story book.
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Rest assured you are not an evil mum…just one who has learned to cope! Trust me, kids thrive on having boundaries…gives them security and a sense of worth. Both mine had to do Kumon and I remember making them do it while on vacation travelling on the Eurostar from Lond to Paris…I have pics to prove it! Their reward(besides the trip) was they could have a treat from the canteen car. They remember and still laugh abt it to this day!
LOL.. you are such a hard working mom, it has been some time I didn’t coach my girl to study, teacher claimed she was depressed after all the activities I have arranged for her!:p
We have lots of outdoor activities this school holidays but I insist that my boy has an hour of revision in the morning and another hour in the evening, mostly on Chinese and Maths and some English grammar. I saw the Malay story book selling in Popular, I think at RM9.90. 🙂
Because my grils only break for 2 weeks, they attended the holiday enrichment class until mid of December, so i didn’t arrange anything for them to do at home anymore. But, I enrol with a lot of activities, like swimming, children aerobics, art and craft and etc.