The kids and their classes!

I have two kids and they are as different as can be. I made a pact with myself to never push them into anything they did not want to do. Now, the tables have turned. They want to do so much that I need to make a pact with them that I should not be made to do things I don't want to - for their classes! :-D

Spent three hours today picking out red chiffon and sateen, gold and beaded lace and another hour the other day picking out ornaments. Anyone who knows me will be rolling over and laughing their gut out by now....ornaments and dance stuff are pretty far out there for me.

The kids wanted to do everything they do now....and since it was productive stuff that they are willing to continue and showed consistent interest in, figured this was probably my parental responsibility anyways. Now though, between tabla, kathak, singing, art and swimming classes, I am being put through my paces. The kids each have a couple of classes that they love and then swimming that is a required lifeskill. They are absolutely not stressed out.....if anything, they are stressing me out with their enthusiasm!

Not only am I becoming culture central, I am also relearning Hindi, my personal bete-noire. I can understand it very well and speak it to shopkeepers and cabbies. Ask me to construct a grammatically correct sentence with the right masculine/feminine assignments to tables and chairs (What the heck? Some alcohol must have been involved to see that a table has gender!) and I am gone. Ask for this sentence construction with ease and confidence and witness serious stutters!

Parenting involves doing things that are way out of your comfort level...including your education...again...from the nursery level, as many times as the number of kids you have. No wonder single child families are becoming the norm! :-)