A lot of weekends these days are spent in trying to find and execute 'quality' activities for children to do or be exposed to...alas I have fallen prey to it more than often...
This weekend was no different...the promise of a puppet show on the lines of Elmo from Sesame Street, a workshop on puppet making afterwards and then grab some lunch along the way....out of the three, I think the only one that was achieved with any success was lunch !
The venue was perfect - my favourite book shop in town...but unfortunately, the teeming millions who live in Mumbai seem to all think alike so the puppet show was bursting at its seams with a variety of children - wailing, excited, over-dosed on sugar, zapped-out-their-wits et al...the parents dont help either. There should be a list of clear do's and dont's for the parents too:
a) If your child is not interested, dont force him
b) Stop your child from hitting other children
c) Stop talking while the puppets are talking
In addition, the ' puppet making workshop' afterwards ended up meaning sticking some tennis balls on a sock...while most kids were excited for precisely half a second, I know that that sock will now live in a drawer for the rest of its life and never see daylight again...
It was actually more enjoyable and probably more mentally stimulating too for my child to just browse through the entire childrens library, read and be read to and spend some quiet time in the company of books.
This weekend was no different...the promise of a puppet show on the lines of Elmo from Sesame Street, a workshop on puppet making afterwards and then grab some lunch along the way....out of the three, I think the only one that was achieved with any success was lunch !
The venue was perfect - my favourite book shop in town...but unfortunately, the teeming millions who live in Mumbai seem to all think alike so the puppet show was bursting at its seams with a variety of children - wailing, excited, over-dosed on sugar, zapped-out-their-wits et al...the parents dont help either. There should be a list of clear do's and dont's for the parents too:
a) If your child is not interested, dont force him
b) Stop your child from hitting other children
c) Stop talking while the puppets are talking
In addition, the ' puppet making workshop' afterwards ended up meaning sticking some tennis balls on a sock...while most kids were excited for precisely half a second, I know that that sock will now live in a drawer for the rest of its life and never see daylight again...
It was actually more enjoyable and probably more mentally stimulating too for my child to just browse through the entire childrens library, read and be read to and spend some quiet time in the company of books.
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