This is why, it’s very important, for parents to ENFORCE the skills that their young children acquired during the weekday on the weekends, so they don’t regress, each, and every week, translated…
During our usual gatherings as a group of new moms, one of the moms told, “Do you all know, that kids in kindergarten these days have a case of the Mondays?”, then, we’d all chimed in, yeah, surely they do, my child really does have the Monday Blues! That mom, upon hearing, smiled, “Not that Monday Blue, but, the symptoms of ‘I don’t know how to do anything” Monday syndrome!”
Yes, this, is a case of the Mondays for a preschooler…not my photgraph…
Turns out, that the kids in kindergarten, under the training of the school instructors learned to feed themselves, to put their toys up, to put on and take off their own shoes, etc., etc., etc., but, after a weekend, don’t know why, but, everything they’d learned during the week was, gone. And, as they’d returned back to kindergarten the next week, the teachers found, that they were able to, feed themselves, but, at lunchtime, they’d sat and stared at their food, not knowing what they were to do; and, the kids who were potty-trained already, would start crying when they wanted to go, wanting the teachers to help them. The mom seriously defined it, “So, this, is the kindergarteners’ case of the Mondays.”
As she just finished, every one of us started laughing really hard, and, confessed one by one, “It’s, absolutely true! John’s teacher told us he can feed himself at school, and ate a lot too, but, at home, he’d wanted me to feed him, and wouldn’t eat as much; and if I refused to feed him, he may drag his dinner throughout the entire evening, and he’d become, so picky with his own food, what, can I do?”, “I think, that we’d, made it this way! I’d often felt, that Mantou would move along so very slowly, and, in a moment, my patience was gone, and, I’d, grabbed her food from her, and started feeding it to her, so she doesn’t, procrastinate, and waste away an entire day.” “Me too, I can’t stand how slow the kids moved, and I was rushing out for work, so, I’d just, put his shoes on, tied up his laces for him, so awful!” “As for me, blame my husband, for hiring a household help, if she doesn’t tidy up the toys in the kids’ room, what, would she have to do? So, the kids were all, spoiled by her.” “I’m worried that they will get messy with their foods, like how hard it is, to get the stains from grapes off their clothes, I’d just, peeled off the skins, so they can, eat it right away.”
Hearing all of these “Cases of the Mondays for the Kindergarten”, other than feeling that it was, way too hilarious, I’d warned myself silently, to give my child MORE time to try. Don’t know if all of your kids have a case of the “I can’t do anything anymore” on Mondays too?
yup, I need you to FEED me!!! Not my photograph…
And this, still just showed, how easy these newly learned skills, if the parents don’t enforce them at home, will be wasted, and, these kindergarten/preschool teachers would have to teach the young children the same things, over, over, over, AND over again, and that would be, a total, waste of your (the parents’) money, in putting your young into those preschool or kindergarten programs, because you, as parents, took care of EVERYTHING for your young during the weekends, so naturally, when Monday comes, they’d forgotten the skills they’d already acquired the previous week in school…
Life, the Obstacle Course 