The middle child syndrome - already evident??
YEN and I were lying on the bed last night with RACHEL, teaching her things and reading to her. She noticed that we totally ignored little FELIX as we were telling RACHEL that mummy is having another baby, a sister. This left FELIX walking around the edges of our bed on his own. To his credit, he did not make any noise about being left out.
YEN remarked that we could be starting to have the “middle child syndrome” running in our family already, where we leave the middle child out on a lot of things, forgetting him when we tend to the oldest and youngest children. No, it isn’t done on purpose, really. Well, I must make an effort not to leave him out of things we do.
I bade goodbye to my class today, hoping that they would really study heard in the next few days that they needn’t attend school due to the PSLE Marking. The year’s finally drawing to a close, and memories with this class - being my first ever since I started teaching - will probably remain etched in my heart. There are points to learn from and things where I could have done better at, but I’m quietly glad that the year is drawing to an end, finally, while feeling sad about not going to have them under my wings anymore.
I was thinking about what I can do in the coming days after their examination with them. Hopefully, I can do meaningful and fun things with them in the remaining days!
