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Pre-school playground scenes are now very common with the sight
of children with their kids
backpacks strapped to their backs, even while playing in the
schoolyard. This is because parents would rather have their kids
play around with the kids' camping
backpacks on, due to the forgetfulness of the pre-school kids.
The play activity takes place after the class hours, while the kids
wait for their moms to fetch them from the school premises.
Many parents experienced losing the cool
backpacks for kids of their very young kids in the play area
because the kids at that tender age usually forget where they leave
their kids
backpacking to go out and play with the other kids. Unlike when
they are inside the classrooms, the chances of losing the backpacks
out in the grounds are more because there is no specific place where
the kids can leave their unique
kids backpacks.
The school playground is a much bigger area where the kids from
all the classrooms converge after classes and their backpacks are
left just anywhere because there is not much supervision now from
the teachers, as compared with what happens in the individual classrooms.
The kid especially the preschooler, tend to just leave his or her
backpack anywhere, and when the mom asks where the child left the
backpack, in many instances the kid fails to remember where the
backpack was left, especially because the area of the playground
is quite big.
Many of the moms of the preschoolers experience the loss of their
kids' backpacks in the same manner, so when they exchange notes
on this problem, they concluded that it would be better if the kids
are just asked not to remove their backpacks during their playing
hours. The moms thought that anyway, they are on the way home since
classes have ended for the day.
That is why it is common to see the little ones running around the
school gound. Maybe looking like little soldiers with their backpacks
strapped to their backs, as if they were really soldiers out on
patrol perspiring profusely, and maybe lacking only the guns real
soldiers carry around.
This practice worked out by the moms for their kids not to lose
their kids' backpacks has somehow led to another kind of problem.
The kids sweat so much in their play activity wetting not only their
clothes but including the backpacks as well.
This has not discouraged the mothers however. Their continuous conversations
and consultations with one another while waiting for their children
to finish playing, resulted in ingenuous solutions to the problem
of the dirtied backpacks: wash them together with the children's
clothes over the weekend, with this or that detergent as the more
knowledgeable moms proudly announce their techniques and discoveries
of new solutions to their laundry problems.
For some dads who have to pitch in for their wives in fetching the
kids from the school every now and then, the techniques in dealing
with backpacks to be cleaned is rather new to them, but they are
forced to learn from the moms too the procedure.
Other wise a dad serving as a proxy mom for a while can get the
ire of his kid complaining of a smelly backpack on Monday morning.
No dad will agree of course that he is not better than mom in cleaning
his little boy's backpack.
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