So as always, I am sitting here babysitting my niece who is about five months old. She's got a bad cough and cold and this makes breathing difficult for her. Bless her little heart.
Anyway, I can't quite remember whether I posted anything yesterday and I don't think I did as I was up at about 6am and on the road. It was family day yesterday with the family. Went out to this sort of, I don't even know what to call it, but its a place where kids go and try different jobs and even earn as they go. Oh yeah, I remembered that it's called #Kidzania. I think that the kids loved it. And when I say kids, I mean from the age of 4 to 14 and or 15. There were no jobs like lawyers and secret agents, as my 11 and 13-year-old niece and nephew pointed out to me with such disappointment. Well, apparently there was an 'agent' job but it was for being an estate agent, which they didn't find as cool. Otherwise, on the whole, I think they had a fantastic experience.
Thing about it though is that it is designed for constant exploration, as in, kids have to keep going back there, which I think isn't very practical for parents seeing how pricey it is anyway. The money or 'kidzos' that they earn, isn't even enough for them to buy anything after the four-hour session. They also have to wait up to an hour for some jobs and can more or less do only just one job per hour, from which they earn from 8 to 12 kidzos - well, that was from the jobs that my lot did - and they needed at least 75 kidzos to open an account. They were given 50 kidzos to start off with, and what they did with it when they got in, had a great deal to do with what they wanted to do.
However, when all that is said, they learnt a great deal about life and money. Remember when I said that they didn't have enough money to do buy something with the kidzos? Well, they also learnt that you have to work hard for the money you make in order to buy the things you want and it showed to them that parents have to work all the time. And that my dear friends or just me (uh huh) is why I still think it's a great experience for kids, and adults too because the adults get to see what their kids like to do or think a job entails.
Well, I am going to go back to babysitting as my niece is getting cranky.
Have a good day.
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