Mom Can We Take The Stairs?

Education is like ice trays. We take water and put it in trays we keep in the freezer. It is comes out as ice cubes. We place them in a glass and use a line from old movies ‘Waiter, scotch on the rocks.’

Water has a long history before it gets to the freezer and it is up to us to tell the whole history, since the school system is bent on cubing it. Kids that are too young to have cellphones love going out with parents. They are claustrophobic. They want to leave cramped apartments for fresh air. You can try and dodge them, but somehow they can sense it when adults prepare to go out.

Parents can turn all car trips into the story of water. How? City kids are born in elevators, go to school in elevators, go to work in elevators and visit the sick in elevators. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, can be part of the whole story of water. The elevator is electrical. It is man-made so something is bound to go wrong.

Mom, can we take the stairs?

You taught them buildings have stairs in case the elevator is not working, now they think it’s fun. They hop and skip on the stairs. They count the stairs, try to take two at a time. They throw a leg over the rail to slide down, but your eyes stops them right there. They reach the top of the stairs before you, and bounce back to drag you up.

Exam time. There will be a question about fire safety. Your kids will remember. This blog is prompted by what I saw for the first time last week: black and white pigeons. I thought they were a combination of blue and gray. I guess, I’m also ignorant about the whole story of water.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.