Tonight we had our holiday show and for the last 3 years I have had a class sleepover after. For most westerners that sounds like good fun, here we usually have to convince parents that it is ok for their child to sleep away from home that is not with family or with family in a hotel.
My kids are on average 10 years old and for the majority this is the first experience of this kind they have ever had. And again this year the kids are hyper exited and the parents hoover around for ages. They find it really tough to let go. Which is difficult of course but most parents have this phase a little earlier.
I have had parents unpack their son's pajamas and every year we have one family where we have to stop the maid going along with the kid to change. though I didn't notice this this time now I think of it.
This year I had one of my kids ask me who was going to sleep with them. He meant an adult. Now my TA usually sleeps with the girls (more for her sake than the kids mind). The classrooms are very close together and I always sleep where I can hear everything (with the door open. The mosquitoes will have a field day.) The first year I had a TA and a shadow teacher staying the night as well and they were wondering where I was going to sleep if I did not sleep in the boys or in the girls room. I told them I'd be sleeping in the small room we used as video room. They got really worried whether I would be ok. It was their first sleepover as well. I thought it was endearing but it was kind of sad as well. I can't believe being around 24 years old and never have had a sleepover in my life.
Update: we had a parent call us the next morning at about half past 6. She hadn't been able to sleep all night and was waiting for us in the teashop. She and her husband were there when we arrived. Their daughter wasn't too interested in seeing mum and dad, she was too busy with her friends (as it should be). Apparently, it was the first time their daughter had slept somewhere without her parents.
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