Monday, August 04, 2008

Monorail ride and...

Yesterday for the first time, we took Reese on a monorail ride (first time for us too) in town. This is his first ever public transport experience and since we are going to take him to Hong Kong in September, I thought better expose him to train rides... and how did it go?

First, we bought tickets for a short ride from Berjaya Times Square to Bukit Bintang. As we walk up to the platform..we kept telling him..we are going for a ride... he seems ok at first..but the moment he saw many people and the loud sounds coming from the platform.. he stopped..and demanded to go down the steps... So I carried him and he protested.. once on the platform.. we distracted him with big fans and things around. He was ok...the moment the monorail approached and stopped... he got scared... and refused to go in.. when we boarded the train... he started to cry..really loud...thoughout the journey... People were staring and I just can't be bothered..hehe.. both of us were trying our best to pacify him...but it didn't work.. then we realised that we were on the wrong train... so... again we got out and went and took another train and again...Reese got very frightened and cried all the way... once we reached Bukit Bintang... took him to walk around..and he was ok again..the mentioned of 'go sit train'... he got all cranky again.... after somtime... we walk back to the station and he got scared and started to cry...went into the train.. had to kept pacifying him but thank God... it was slightly better...he got distracted by the things outside the train...and only soft whimper.... phew...

We are wondering... whether he will react the same in planes!!! *sign*
We will be taking him for train rides every weekend from this week onwards and hope that he will over come the fear else... we will probably not take him to Hong Kong with us.
Hubby kept telling him that if he wants to see Mickey Mouse.. he has to sit train and don't cry.. haha... after all... we will be taking MTR most of the time in Hong Kong.

Mummies... have you had similar experiences? How do you over come the fear ah?

Maybe we should also take him for a bus ride? It's quite similar to a plane....mmmm...

2 comments:

Ann said...

oooh.....that is going to be tough!

maybe don't bring him on the bus. Afterwards he get phobia for public transportation!

As for plane, maybe show him nice happy children taking a plane ride and show him how happy they are. So next time when he is in the plane, you an remind him of the happy children and the adventures they faced!

Baby Darren said...

this is difficult..I'm worried that he'll have the same problem in the plane too as you told me he does not like to be confined. emm...i have no idea on how to counter this too. Just hope he'll overcome this by the time you all go to HK.