Adventures in tweenlandia
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 9:43PM Jr., all of ten years old went to science camp last week!
She left on tuesday morning and came back friday afternoon. For the first time in her life, she spent close to three full days away from her beloved.....
iPad, iPhone, iMac.. We were not really worried about her missing her parents or her sister. The WiTHDRAWAL symptoms was what worried us. She managed fine, thanks to her wonderful teacher who acted as surrogate iPad and her friends who made up for the iPhone and the few creatures she encountered in the trails she hiked in Santa Cruz like a newt, banana slug etc. rounded off the entertainment.
After she came home she summarized the entire events of 3 plus days in one hour during our bedtime story telling and that got me to a few startling revelations.
They all got up at 6:30 AM because there was "flag".. "flag hoisting". It takes me 15 mintues to get her rear end out of bed starting at 7:30 AM on a normal day and twice that long on a weekend. So, I am planning to put a flag pole in my backyard and make her go do "flag" every morning.
No Flag? No breakfast! That should work..
Second, my darling now has an identity! As the narration was going on..
Jr. : We had these cabins which had like 10 people in each cabin and you know most of us desis were in one cabin and on and on and on..
Me : (did I just hear her call herself a DESI?!) Who were all in your cabin?
Jr.: Me, kid1, kid2, kid3,... and rattled off a list which included kids who had at least one Indian parent..
This is the first time I have heard her call herself a Desi !! So much for science camp. My daughter goes away for three days and comes back accepting her Indian-ness?
Last but not least, she took some really good pictures. Unfortunately she was not in a single one of the pictures. Guess she takes after dad for that one. We are waiting for her friends to share pictures of her.
Needless to say.. the first thing she did after coming into the house?
Look for the iPad!
Another wonder that happened? The little one admitted she did indeed miss her sister.. a little bit.. during afternoon playtime!
ps. San tells me that she looked for the iPad only after she had recited the one hour story after coming into the house.. we need more science camps!
Reader Comments (2)
"Tweenlandia"--- innovative!
Kids surprise us sometimes. We recently had the same situation here. My 15 year old woke up all by himself and even got ready on time without either parent egging him on. He was with friends attending a competition......and nobody had to wake him up. We were flabbergasted! Sat and Sundays at home are a nightmare.....both kids wont get out of bed till 11...sometimes 12. Maybe we should adopt some form of 'flag hoisting' type ceremony here too.
I like your daughters ,they remind me of my girl Bella :)
She is 6 going on 100 sometimes and then to 2 and back to 6 !
She refers to caucasians as "english people " ,I never told her to say that :))
I don't correct her either because its so stinking cute