Play time

The Gym

What comes to one's mind when the gym is mentioned?

 We would probably associate it with a concept shown above.We go to the gym for a workout and pay a monthly fee to sweat out. We need coaching, company and equipment for a health programme. It's the norm now.

 What happens when your niece tells you that the son also needs a workout plan at less than 12 months? A plan to play ? It sounded odd to my ears and I casually asked my sister " A plan to play?" I don't remember this when my children were growing up. Maybe I am behind time and I have lost understanding of what modern mothers do. So, I decided to follow them to see what the plan meant.

So, I was greeted with this...gymboree. Hurray it sounds fun.

 These brighten up the place and it's a children's domain alright.

 So the play begins. To entitle yourself to playtime, you must be named. So every child needs to register and thus qualify himself to legally play at the grounds.

 Like a gym, the place has all sorts of equipment to help the young ones play, exercise and socialise. I fail to comprehend why modern mothers have to go to such length to entertain...but my sister kept saying that this is how things work these days and told me to shut up and follow the new pattern. Follow the new trend and she ranted that my girls will do the same for their children too. I only remembered that as a young mother I had to run to so many places in between work and sending them to baby sitters...where got time to send them to gymborees? Anyway, 20 years ago such a term did not exist.

So the young, energetic mother will coax the son to climb and reach the destination ...

 Yes ! He made it and it s a feat ! Oh yes I also remember bringing my children to the Tanjung park in Muar and taught them to climb this way too...not a gym but an outdoor park.

I suppose things have changed and I really must follow the new trend.

 There Cayden also met new friends. It was indeed a delight to see triplets at the gymboree all having a great time together. Sometimes it is a refreshing change from school to see and breathe new things...like being in a gymboree with young faces. I enjoy the day with them and I am still coaxing myself to look at ideas and things in a new light and to accept them graciously; no need to rationalise too much...just follow. 

That will make me a more likeable person, agree?

Fun at the gymboree.