We have had a busy morning doing our usual park games, sandwiches in the park and back home by 13:00. I was flat out tired as I had spent the previous evening de-cluttering wardrobes after the girls had one to bed. My eldest asked me to run up the stairs to close her top button as she was changing clothes after the park and I just couldn’t. She asked me why we went to the park if I was so tired? Wow, this was a mature question and it’s true, prioritising health and well-being is so important so why exert myself? These are the things as adults we forget as we continuously push at work to prove that we are able to meet the 24-7 culture of working, family, activities and everything else.
I smiled at her and said, ‘I go to the park for you! because you need to have some fun!’ she laughed and laughed whilst I was looking at her on the stairs. I laughed first, but then thought something had happened because she couldn’t stop! She then called me a ‘Chicken Mum’. According to her, I am a Chicken Mum because I don’t stop- I am always walking around all day! She told me that it was a good thing, so I’ll take it!
I think I am still feeling like I am on a short holiday and trying to cram in as much as possible into our days- I need to adjust to this now being my lifestyle.
So there are tiger mums, and now there are chicken mums. I have always been ambitious in my career with a hunger to achieve experiences to gain growth, and I suppose I like to push myself every day to achieve more than I did the day before on this career break. I am tiger-ish to myself. I may become a bit tiger-ish mum when school starts again as she starts Year 4 and I want her to do well, but during the holidays I am more than happy to be a chicken mum.
Skills Repeat 