Rosie had her Sports Day at school this week. In blazing KL sunshine, 100ish 4 and 5 year old children took part in sack races, bean bag balancing, parachute lifting and a host of other activities designed to promote a love of movement and physical activity. No longer does the fastest, strongest or most coordinated get rewarded with medals and labelled as a winner; nowadays the emphasis is on inclusion and participation. That's not to say there weren't a few parents on the touchline shouting encouragement and advice that would have been more appropriate at the Olympic Trials than at what was many of these children's first exposure to 'competition'.
Rosie did a great job although she looked horribly exposed for the first 2 or 3 events until her confidence grew to a point where she forgot about the crowds and started to enjoy herself.
On the way home from school she said very casually out of the blue "I'm a big girl now, can I have a mobile phone?"!!!! How could our 4 year old have been jumping in a sack that came up to her nose in the morning and then that very same day be requesting very seriously a phone of her own? What next? A GPS for her trike?
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