Holidays – when good parents go bad.
April 6, 2010 in Uncategorized
Parenting is difficult at the best of times. However, in the school holidays it takes on a whole new level of stress. It seems to me that every holiday my children start to exhibit two disorders – the onset of ADHD during the day and then insomnia at night time. Individually these could be dealt with but when the two are combined it can be a nightmare.
Yesterday we visited an impressive World War One flight museum in Blenheim. Each aircraft had been impressively reconstructed into an impressive scene. There were crashed planes in trees, snow scenes and even a recreation of the crashed Red Baron. The results were outstanding. To keep patrons off these impressive exhibits there was an alarm system which emitted a loud, ear piecing buzz. Within 17 seconds of paying our entry fee our youngest boy had set the alarm off and already come face to face with the Red Baron, by trying to remove his helmet. Needless to say thesecurity guard kept a close eye on us for the remainder of out 2 hour visit.
With this kind of pressure it is not surprising that sometimes parents do some strange and silly things with their children. Sometime parents just don’t get it right with their children and fortunatley there is often a camera to etch that moment in history. The photos below are not intended to offend, so just enjoy them for what they are – parents dealing with children under the stress of holidays.
next time I will use super glue!!!
Dont know why you are crying son. Be a real man and snuggle into the lion.
just waiting for my other son to come down from the 'Tower of Terror'
we dont want to promote the throwing of food.
I told him twice to be quiet so now he must face the consequence
better than leaving them at home alone
I gave him a choice; Walk or take the trolley. He choose the trolley.
a simple game of Hide 'n' Seek gone terribly wrong.