i just don't get this...
Jun 27th 2010, 4:12 am
#16
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Re: i just don't get this...
I found the cost of tikets to Aberdeen bloody expensive. Travelling this tuesday and returning 15 sep. KLM was the cheapest but still expensive.
Jun 27th 2010, 4:45 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
If I had a family out here I would send the wife and kids home for the summer. Leave the night school lets out, return the day before.
There's nothing to do in Dubai during the summer months that doesn't cost a lot of money. It's too hot to spend prolonged periods outside so the beaches are out of the question. Same for weekend camping. Malls get boring after a while and you spend a fortune out of boredom.
It's a great opportunity for people to reconnect to their families back home, rejoin whatever community you left and remind yourself that you are British/American/Whatever.
Not to mention that it's goddamn hot. I was cranky enough today and I can't imagine having several little kids running around underfoot. July and August is even worse.
There's nothing to do in Dubai during the summer months that doesn't cost a lot of money. It's too hot to spend prolonged periods outside so the beaches are out of the question. Same for weekend camping. Malls get boring after a while and you spend a fortune out of boredom.
It's a great opportunity for people to reconnect to their families back home, rejoin whatever community you left and remind yourself that you are British/American/Whatever.
Not to mention that it's goddamn hot. I was cranky enough today and I can't imagine having several little kids running around underfoot. July and August is even worse.
Jun 27th 2010, 5:04 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
Why is it that these days children have to be 'entertained' all the time?
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Jun 27th 2010, 5:12 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
Most adults would love to lounge around the house all summer as its too hot..it is just not good for kids.
My daughter has a broken ankle right now and is obviously pretty demobilised. She really gets frustrated as she wants to go swimming, playing on her bike, with the kids in the street etc etc.
She will go home to Scotland not to be 'entertained' but to spend time with her family and basically run around from 6am -6pm, be exhausted and then sleep, which as any parent will tell you is absolute bliss.
Jun 27th 2010, 5:45 am
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Jun 27th 2010, 5:55 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
I maybe went to the zoo once a year, once a year to some amusement park, 3 times to the movies and that was about it...(yeah, sad childhood eh)
Nowadays it seems like you are a bad bad parent if you don't go to every show in the Madinat, if you haven't been to Kidszania at least 10 times, if you don't drive them around town like a mad thing to every party, playdate, movie premiere etc that is happening...it's madness and it creates kids that think that they are the centre of the universe, kids that can't entertain themselves.
Jun 27th 2010, 5:56 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
I thought the same... but honestly when they live with you full time (i.e. not just look after some) it's easier (and more rewarding) to play with / educate them than just let them sit there (which they will not do - or at least mine will not do).
That said, we do try and encourage 'self play'. i.e. he goes in his playroom with his cars and we leave him to it.
Jun 27th 2010, 5:58 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
I agree completely...being bored and staying bored or getting inventive and do something on your own with the massive amount of toys, books, pencils etc every kid has, is part of life...
I maybe went to the zoo once a year, once a year to some amusement park, 3 times to the movies and that was about it...(yeah, sad childhood eh)
Nowadays it seems like you are a bad bad parent if you don't go to every show in the Madinat, if you haven't been to Kidszania at least 10 times, if you don't drive them around town like a mad thing to every party, playdate, movie premiere etc that is happening...it's madness and it creates kids that think that they are the centre of the universe, kids that can't entertain themselves.
I maybe went to the zoo once a year, once a year to some amusement park, 3 times to the movies and that was about it...(yeah, sad childhood eh)
Nowadays it seems like you are a bad bad parent if you don't go to every show in the Madinat, if you haven't been to Kidszania at least 10 times, if you don't drive them around town like a mad thing to every party, playdate, movie premiere etc that is happening...it's madness and it creates kids that think that they are the centre of the universe, kids that can't entertain themselves.
Jun 27th 2010, 5:58 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
I asked a simple question & yet again it gets personal. When I was young - living in several different countries - we were not entertained by our parents every day, but managed to entertain ouselves. It wasn't always possible to play outside, but there were books, games and our imaginations. We didn't even have a TV for much of my childhood. It seems to me that children require more stimulation thes days in this world of large TVs, video games etc.
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Jun 27th 2010, 6:10 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
I have always found this scenario of mum and nippers all going home for the whole of the summer and leaving dad behind a bit strange.
I do however think it has reduced considerably as most mums work out here now and can't just bugger off for the summer.
When they get to teenage years, they actually in my exp do not want to go home for the entire summer, they have their friends here and the though of going home for the summer is not appealing to them anymore.
I do however think it has reduced considerably as most mums work out here now and can't just bugger off for the summer.
When they get to teenage years, they actually in my exp do not want to go home for the entire summer, they have their friends here and the though of going home for the summer is not appealing to them anymore.
Jun 27th 2010, 6:12 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
same here, we never take our daughter to any of the things that MH mentions. In fact our neighbours looked at us with disdain cause we didnt fork out a fortune to go and see frikin Barney or the wiggles.
Jun 27th 2010, 6:13 am
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Re: i just don't get this...
You imagine wrong, as you really don't know my situation or history.
I asked a simple question & yet again it gets personal. When I was young - living in several different countries - we were not entertained by our parents every day, but managed to entertain ouselves. It wasn't always possible to play outside, but there were books, games and our imaginations. We didn't even have a TV for much of my childhood. It seems to me that children require more stimulation thes days in this world of large TVs, video games etc.
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I asked a simple question & yet again it gets personal. When I was young - living in several different countries - we were not entertained by our parents every day, but managed to entertain ouselves. It wasn't always possible to play outside, but there were books, games and our imaginations. We didn't even have a TV for much of my childhood. It seems to me that children require more stimulation thes days in this world of large TVs, video games etc.
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