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Sunday, April 27, 2014

As a traditionalist educator in the mould of Michael Gove or Wackford Squeers, I believe it's important for children to spend time on their tables...


Although it clearly does nothing for their behaviour. I've always wanted a centrepiece for the drawing room table, but that wasn't quite what I had in mind.

Anyhoo, that was Amelie and Toby reaching a frenzied high of creative excitement at 8 o'clock this morning. Lisa was in bed at the time. She wasn't asleep; she was trying to smother herself with a pillow.

What's really impressive is that despite being full of hyperactive beans before most of the country are awake, they're still achieving that same peak level of uncontrollable mania eleven hours later when they're supposed to be winding down for bed. It's a miracle Lisa and I are still alive. In fact, sometimes I'm not sure we are.

But our ability to battle our way through entire weekends with the children, without resorting to violence, neglect or illegal drugs, is not without its rewards. Firstly, we get to feast our eyes on collaborative art efforts such as this one...


It features two bees as a kind of Catchphrase 'say-what-you-see' type of clue for those who can't read. I think.

And secondly, we get impromptu hand-made greetings cards to point out the obvious, and stop us slashing our wrists...


She's missed the 'Li' out of 'brilliant' because we can do it without Lithium.

Although some would be useful for the kids.

2 comments:

Phil said...

In reality, of course, she's missed an 'L' and an 'A' out of 'brilliant', but I only realised that after I'd written the joke, and I'm too tired to come up with something else. Which is kinda the point of the post...

Phil's Mum said...

Never mind about the spelling - the sentiments are all you need to keep you going for another week (I think!!).