The last weekend, my in-laws were overseas, Summer’s I Can Read class stopped for a week, and we had no events to attend. Much to my joy and to Mama Toh’s slight disappointment.
So we had quite a lot of time to ourselves, just the 4 of us, and we decided to take a walk around the neighbourhood, something which we had not done for an extremely long time.
And Summer was more than happy to unleash her scooting skills in the open (she is usually only confined to the void deck).
Just realized the sky looks beautiful here... in comparison to Mama Toh's chor lor walking
Little Zavier boy is just happy to be out after recovering from fever
There is a semi-professional skate park near our house, complete with malicious looking ramps and rails.
These are usually used by the wannabe skaters/skateboarders/stunt bikers during the evenings and nights but I don’t think the average guy can handle them. I should know. I fell flat on my butt 2 years ago attempting to skateboard down one of the low slopes and never returned to this place of danger (and shame) again.
The funny thing about kids though, is that they have this very warped sense of self confidence. Summer was extremely intrigued with the various obstacles.
Like this mountainous, death-inviting slope
And this cursed ramp which caused my fall a few years ago
All in all, she was mightily disappointed that I did not allow her to go up any of them. Well, mainly because she didn’t wear her protective gear beforehand like I asked her to.
However, I subsequently promised her that we could return the following weekend (tomorrow actually) to try the slopes out if she dons her protective gear.
Which of course caused Mama Toh to glare and tsk at me. To which of course I pretended not to notice.
As parents, we should not transfer our own fears to our kids by scaring/cautioning them too much. Who knows they have the potential to accomplish something that we couldn’t, and we are holding them back with our overly cautious nature?
Let’s hope Summer manages to conquer the slopes (ok maybe just the low one for now) without too many falls!
This is how disappointment looks like