Here I am, busy putting clocks on my blog. Baby Z is napping, I'm supposed to be studying, the kids are all downstairs up to something.
I trust them enough not to wonder what they're doing and continually ask,
"What are you guys up to now?"
Since we went to the library yesterday, they got more books, and for the time being are occupied enough not to play games on the computer.
"If we have books to read, we won't be playing games," S reasoned.
These past few days they have been spending a lot of time on the computer, playing games, much to hubby's and my consternation. Alhamdulillah though, they only go to the permitted websites.
Yesterday, we babysat a neighbor's son, because their newborn is in NICU (May Allah heal the baby. Ameen). He brought his own CD Arthur game, and we let him play it on the computer downstairs while we prayed Maghrib and Isha upstairs. At one point he asked H to go to Cartoon Network website, and I only knew because H said to him,
"We're not allowed."
I was there, and curious about the exchange that just happened, which I didn't really hear, I asked H,
"What's not allowed?"
"Cartoon Network."
Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. The child knows, and abides by it, mashaallah.
Today, just now, H came upstairs, and I excitedly showed him my new clocks on the blog. After peering at the screen for a few measly seconds, uttering a mild "Oh," he exclaimed,
"Ummi, we made bubbles. You wanna see it?"
"With what?" I asked.
"With Ajax."
They're playing with my dishwashing liquid. Hey!
"Yeah, sure," I replied.
He bounded downstairs and came back in a flash with a yellow plastic bowl filled with the buble solution, and a twist tie formed into a bubble blower ring. Dipping the bubble blower into the solution, he then proceeded to blow huge firm bubbles in the room.
"They're so firm too! They don't break, they even bounce on the floor!" he expressed with enthusiasm.
"Mashaallah!"
Apparently, N had started making bubbles, and they had tried it first with the handsoap, but it dodn't really work.
"Hmm..why do you think it didn't work that well?" I asked H.
"Hmm..maybe it was too creamy..Oh yeah! it's too creamy," he concluded.
"Hmm, hey maybe you can test other soaps, and write down your results and compare which soap makes the best bubbles!" I was overcome with excitement as well.
"Yeah, that' like Zoom," he said.
"And you have your hypotheses, your materials, experiments, and then you can write down your results! Get a notebook," I suggested.
Within a few minutes, we I'm typing, H is busy with blue, red plastic bowls, a measuring spoon to measure the amount of soap, and the soaps he's testing.
Ahh...another unschooling moment. Hubby, take note.
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4 comments:
Aswrwb,
When i saw H getting the dishwasher i thought he was washing the dishes. Bubble craze still continued on Jum3a.
Hmm... It'll be a MIRACLE if Adam proclaims that he is not allowed to watch Playhouse Disney Channel... & abides by it...hahahha... Even if he's grounded from watching Playhouse Disney Channel, he'll say : "I'll watch it anyway when ur at work"... Since he's always at my in-laws' when I'm at work, it's impossible for me to lock the channel... hmmmm...
mercy,
hahahaha...i was gonna say "H do the dishes?!" but he does do the dishes sometimes so ..:P
jelah,
hahahaha....maybe you can talk to him when he's a little older and explain the whys. inshaallah you won't even have to lock the channel if he has an intrinsic motivation for not wanting to do something that is not allowed. I sat them down one day, after I myself was exposed to the concept of no TV, after going to people's house with no TV in them (the amazing thing is, we didn't even realize the lack of TV when we went in), and after reading the arguments against TV,and told the kids straight up the reasons why TV is probably more evil than good. I focused on the heart, of the black dots, on how litle things like these affect us but we always don't realize it and before we know it BOOM! we're in the clutches of shaytaan. I know it only too well...and I also told them of how children's hearts are pure, purer than an adult's heart, and as kids grow up the heart gets dirtier and dirtier and taht is why it's important to keep it clean...and that with TV, it's berhantu, you intend to watch only one program, but you end up watchng more...even if you have control in the beginning , it's one of those things that you get hooked without realizing it..shaytaan's tools. a muslim parent's job is made harder in today's world in providing alternative halal sources of entertainment..we just have to be creative... my kids used to watch TV up until the age of I think...hmmm i forget..summer of 2006 kot..not too long ago..i'm still worried they might slide...but at least i've done my part i hope..the rest is up to Allah. if you want to try , try focus on the tauheed aspect of it, the heart, his relationship with allah, because if we just focus on the badness of TV from the scientific point of view or psychological or educationa, heheheh the argument there is not strong at all :) my problem now is books ...sigh
oh jelah..and also focus on the hereafter,.on what they are able to do in jannah... have them always look forward...so kind of like lookig forward to a vacation in disneyland but wayyyy better ....keeping their mindset in this way will inshallah help a bit if not much...helps us too...if we can only 'look ahead' all the time, it would really help us all in our iman...may allah guide us all.
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