Last week I noticed some wrong vibes are going around in my home. My pre-teen throwing tantrums for no reason. The high schooler is getting obsessed with his phone and Yahya is having too much attachment with TVO kids, Although I love this channel because of its very appropriate and educational content but kid’s too much screen annoys me the most , So when Fatima was whining on something I got an idea and asked her to bring all her board games and I saw a sudden happiness and real excitement on her face “Will you play with us?”, Yes, we all will play together. She jumped up and bring all the stuff down and surprisingly everything was in one piece 😉.All three came around giggling with joy and then dragged their Abba as well. We played for a good couple of hours. Kids laughed, cried, shouted & tease each other and were totally
into it(actually we adults too and it ended up on our fight🙈).Even though there was too much interruption of “Meri baari” “Meri gotain” from Yahya but I was happy to see he was distinguishing the colors & trying to count with us. We grew up playing all this and truly there is so much to learn just in the Ludo from counting and numbering to planning, tricking and above all Patience. After that I felt a goodness in their behaviour, They went back refresh to their work and chores and yesterday’s afternoon performed “Zuhr” on time in the excitement of playing Ludo together again. I admit as an adult it was really challenging for us to leave our stuff, to put down our phones and to leave the home messy which gets extra messy on weekends but then again everything can wait but not our kids’ age. Time is running, They are growing up so fast MashaAllah, I realize it more when I see people’s neat and clean houses with untouched stuff but a deep silence inside. Kids don’t need fancy stuff and toys all they want is our time, They need us more when they are growing up not when they have grown up. It gets vice verse for adults 🙂.
Take some time out for board game activities laugh, play and tease each other & make some memories, You will feel a real change.
