Sticky boy

I wonder if I should be concerned that my almost 4-year old son wants to be home and around his parents all day.

Ok, having typed the above sentence out, it does seem a little silly.. but just wait till you hear the tussles that we have -

A) When we visited the Singapore Art Museum a few weeks ago, he was worried about going into one of the exhibit rooms by himself and kept saying “I want mama to go in too.”

It made me feel guilty, and i wondered if i had been dropping him off at too many different classes – Berries, Edvox music class, Chinese holiday program..

B) On 20th Jun, when Christian overheard me calling playgroups (for Calista, next year) and heard me telling the teacher that I’ll visit the school when it reopens, after the school holidays, he said “I don’t want to go, mama.”

C) I’ve been persuading him to go to the playground downstairs, just to get out of the house for some sun and fun. His standard response nowadays is “Why…I like to play at home..the sun is coming through the windows, see..”  -_-

D) The moody mornings have reappeared again, and he drags his feet when we bring him to school, saying instead that he wants to go to music school instead, he wants me to stay in the school with him.. “why not 1 hour, mama? why 3 hours?”

He panics when i start to leave him at school…thank goodness for Teacher D who knows just what to say and how to coax him into understanding.

E) Yesterday, after I brought him and Calista on a supermarket run, he asked me -

“Mama, why Daddy come back so late????”

Me: “Daddy has to work to earn money for us.”

Ch: “I am thinking of him now.”

Me: “Awww…Ok, I’ll call him for you.”

Ch: “Then I’ll tell Daddy ‘come back early come back early come back early’.” *repeats chant*