Every morning, making a timetable for my children is getting more fun. 

Today’s classes for my daughter were reading books, mathematics, Japanese and English in the morning.   Writing Chinese characters and doing an English workbook will be followed in the afternoon. 

Classes for my son were reading books, writing Hiragana, arts and crafts and English in the morning and drawing and doing an English workbook will  start  from 13:30.

As I mentioned here, staying with my kids and studying together is much more enjoyable than I expected.    Keeping regular hours makes us feel pleasant.

I know not a few working mothers had difficulties to take days off for their children.   But I want them to make use of the opportunity to stay home with thier loving children.

After all the classes were over, we had a tea break.   These are breads that I baked.   We ate them with pear jam.

新型インフルエンザの影響で、今週の月曜日から金曜日まで私の二人の子供が通う、幼稚園と小学校は休校になりました。

最初、その知らせを受けた時は正直、「え～っ！1週間も子供たちと家にいないといけないの！」と思い、ブルーな気持になりました。

そこで、私なりに小学校の授業時間割に合わせて授業を組み、子供たちに勉強をさせることにしました。私が真中に座り、その両隣りに2人を座らせ、「キ～ン、コ～ン、カ～ン、コ～ン」の合図と、ともにいざ授業開始です。

始めてみると、意外に楽しく子供たちも喜んでいる様子でした。45分の授業と5分～10分の休憩。規則正しくそれぞれの課題に取り組むことは私にとって新たな発見がありました。

習字や図工、英語も取り入れ、子供達も私も飽きることなく、何より私が一番幸せを感じています。普段のお昼御飯は私一人のことが多いので適当に余りもので済ませますが、子供がいるとやっぱりきちんと作ろうと思います。

まだまだ、「ママ、ママ！」と呼んでもらえる今、本当に感謝・感謝の日々です。

子どもと過ごしたくても過ごすことが出来ない主人は、感染予防のため自転車通勤を始めました。私たちの為に、外で　頑張って働いてくれている主人に、一番の感謝です。

先週買った紫陽花をベランダに置いて楽しんでいます。家にいる時間が長いと、お花の存在は本当に貴重です。

Due to the influence of H1N1 Flu, all the kindergartens, elementary schools, junior highschools and high schools in Suita will be closed until this Friday. 

When I first knew the news, I thought it would be hard for me to spend with my children all day long at home for a week.

So I decided to make my children study in accordance with my daughter’s school timetable.   Once we start to study altogether from 8:45 in the morning,  it’s not that bad to stay at home.

Today we had 4 classes in the morning and two in the afternoon.   Between the classes we had 5 to 10 minutes-break.

Not only Japanese and mathematics, I put an English class.   The three of us enjoyed chanting and dancing Jazz Chants.

When I raise my kids there is a thing that keeps me worried about.   It’s about an education to my kids, especially to my 8-year-old daughter.

When I was a child, I used to like studying.  I didn’t mind doing a lot of paperworks at all.  

So, I tend to expect my daughter to be hardwoking.   And when she doesn’t want to do a workbook that I assign her, I get angry and scold her.   I can’t stop being a ‘Kyoiku-Mama’, a Jewish mother.

I know that I should’t impose my concept of values to  my children.  But  I want them to know the pleasure of studying.

But sometimes I stop to think, is what I’m saying really a thing for my daughter or just a thing that is from my ego?

Each time I say to her “Do this worksheet and that worksheet!”, I ask myself that question mentioned above.   But I can’t stop making her study.

Am I a bad mother?