09/06/07
After a very stressful week we’ve had a lovely day out at the invitation of a friend, maashAllah. She invited us to come with her to a special reopening day at her local library. I have never seen such rowdy chaos in a library. The story teller could barely make himself heard. The boys took part in a general knowledge quiz, and everyone got a balloon.
After that we had something to eat in the bakery and walked to a park, then we walked all the way back to the forest and had a wander round and an ice-cream. (It is a suburban forest, lots of deforested grassy spaces with wooded pockets.) We all enjoyed it thoroughly, may Allah reward the sister as I certainly needed the break and time to feel normal. I think it is better to just assume we are not moving anywhere and plan for staying.
The home ed timetable has taken a knock from all the disruption and stress. They’ve had a week off maths, but the group day subjects continued. The boys have been reading loads. Ia has been doing more writing, inspired by a trip to Tescos with the nursery and the shopping list she prepared for it. She also enjoyed another session with Teacher S, who showed her how to draw round her hand and decorate it as if it was being decorated with henna.
A report out this week described how children these days are not allowed out to play freely as they were in the past. The report suggested that children are now being deprived of the chance to form strong friendships and socialise with their peers. Presumably the children studied for the report were school going. So school was obviously not seen as a place for forming strong childhood friendships then. So that whole socialisation argument……? Means what? They’ve reported themselves full circle on this one.
10/06/07After my driving lesson I dropped myself off at a park and met up with the rest of the family. The boys enjoyed a football training session organised by a friend and coached by another friend’s husband. H and I played with the girls in the park and watched the boys. The weather was just right, maashAllah. There was hardly anyone else in the park – really relaxing, and even the driving is improving now, alhamdulillah
1 comment:
Asak, glad to hear you've braved the driving thing, hope you're getting confident now.
I'm not the first one who was told at school 'You don't come here to socialise!' It's all just a myth the socialisation argument. The people here tend to only socialise with the friends they made at school, so social skills when it comes to meeting peole outside the school circle (eg immigrant neighbours!?) seem pretty limited. the swedes (nonmuslim) I've visited here are because I've invited myself round! But I do generalise there are some friendly ones, but just reserved as a nation, like Brits are to Americans I spose.
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