Life was going well, and suddenly it was that time of the year – summer vacations! Now judge me all you want but summer vacations can be a very stressful time for working parents. Yes it comes with all the extra hours that you get to spend with your little ones, but it also comes with an extra bundle of energy and hyper active state of being from your children. 6 o’clock in the evening when you finally get a chance to change in your Pj’s after a busy, robotic corporate life day, even to steel 5 minutes, just so you can wash your face and dress down is a big struggle. Why? We’ll all the parents out there know the hell why! It’s because when kids are not in school, they are loaded with some sort of natural child ecstasy overdose. They talk louder, jump higher (on sofas and beside delicate house décor) and they sleep less (which is a God’s joke on all us parents here, because otherwise during school days, they somehow can never wake-up on time, with a smile on their face – there’s always grumpiness, tantrum and a big no to breakfast). BUT during summer vacations, the clock ticks 8 -9 maximum and they are out of the bed, all energetic to scare the shit out of parents with never ending demands to go out for adventures, shopping, movies, playing – anything, just ANYTHING. They are like a ticking time bomb, full of energy and enthusiasm ready to break loose on the count of 3 – 2 – oh never mind, they’ll already gone to destruct!
This year, me and my husband decided, as much as we love our child, we will make sure they spend time outside house, because we needed our kid to use all that energy into something beneficial and constructive. God knows we both had enough with the Disney movie marathons, fast food family dinner and junk but expensive toys to pleasure our son’s complain of being bored!
Now don’t start judging our parenting skills, because we definitely are one set of COOL parents. And to be honest we ourselves wanted our kid to enjoy vacations rather than just doing summer vacation homework and lying down in bed eating snacks. Now our family of three is very much into performance arts and sports and we thought this could be a good opportunity to make our son learn some useful yet fun skill.
Don’t even make me start on how much I researched on the summer packages available here. From martial arts, to guitar lesson, to arts and crafts, but nothing excited as much or our son, because nothing ever seem fun to him. Then I came across The Wellness Company situated at Zamzama Karachi, a chic looking, well managed fitness club by Mantahaa Tareen Maqsood, who by the way is awesome at what she does!
My son enrolled in the ZUMBAKICKS class last month, which was a combination of Kick-Boxing and Zumba. To be honest our son was a little shy and skeptical to join the classes at first as he is just 5, turning 6 soon. Obviously the gym setup was something very new to him; also he was the youngest in the class so it did get intimidating in the beginning. But believe you me, in just 2/3 days, I and my husband could see visible changes in his punching skills, confidence, stamina and the cutest was his dance moves.
Sadly the 1 month course just ended yesterday and my son has already announced that he would be joining back as soon as they offer another junior class.
This blog is to spread the word for The Wellness Company’s excellent customer service plus the extra love and affection they showed to all the kids. I see a well-trained and confident young boy in him now and it’s all thanks to Manta Aunty, Sir Hasan and Sir Jahanzeb (as my son Izaan, likes to call them).
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