we did home ed group.
But first, thanks to all for the birthday wishes, I had a lovely day. I think I might continue this tradition of having two birthdays, it was fun!
And back to today. Rose only half an hour after turning the alarm off, and was pottering around half heartedly getting ready for group, when the phone rang. It was V, who we met earlier this summer, dd hit it off with her dd. They live in London, but have family in Chesterfield and were up visiting and wanted to know where our group has moved to. Knowing that they would be there, we hustled ourselves a bit more and arrived only shortly after 11.
Lots of familiar faces there, Sarah, Barbara, Sally as well as various non blogring members 😉 A good time had by all, although behaviour of some of the slightly older boys, did, as usual, give me some cause for concern. Today I limited myself to requesting that if they were going to kill each other they did it away from the baby toys, which seemed reasonable. And those of you with older boys, (or indeed who were boy children once upon a time) answer me this, do boys really have to go through a phase of beating each other up? I’m not talking about arguments that grow into fights – I think those happen for boys and girls, and they are a separate issue. This was fighting for the fun of it, but vicious nonetheless, I witnessed a number of occasions of one or another folding up after a well aimed fist to the balls. Is this necessary? Surely not. 🙁
Anyway. Had preplanned with Barbara that I was bringing E home tonight, so we did this, via Lidl. E was fine, perfectly well behaved, although Big was very mouthy again today. Had quite a bit of that yesterday as well. Didn’t get much of the making of Christmas presents done (read any) the batch that we tried went horribly wrong 🙁 and I think I’d better experiment on my own at some point. which won’t be in the morning, as we’re off to a nappuccino where we should see Sarah, V, and Barbara to hand E back.
Busy, busy, busy!
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4 responses to “And for our day today”
Sorry about the boy fighting thing, we have the same issue at our HE group. Sad as I am to say it, from my experience it really does seem to be the ‘international language’ of many lads. I know Joe loves to play fight with the other boys and it makes me cringe. Some weeks I can control it better than others, but once it is started I find it difficult to stop it. It seems incredibly violent to me and worries me silly that someone is going to get hurt. I always brush off any scrapes Joe comes over moaning about with the usual ‘If you play rough then you have to expect to get hurt…’ but often worry that my son will be the cause of the hurt to some other poor kid and their mum won’t have the same trail of thought. I know Joseph is often not the instigator, but he also has no wish to just walk away. Nothing he does is meant to hurt, it is all meant in play. It just looks incredibly violent! I have no suggestions, we have tried many things at the group and have not had a great deal of success. As I said, you have my sympathies.
Oooooh… i think i’ll just be glad that my girls will stick to scratching, hair pulling and bitching! (I hope…)
Ouch Jules and LOL Merry. Glad you had a great Birthday Jax you deserve it after the recent down times you have had 😀
Well mine aren’t even older boys and they fight for the fun of it 🙁 Its “Can we play fighting now?” and I have had to ban kicking but apart from that they punch and hit and are generally completely violent towards each other. Not quite sure what to do about it yet as its obviously something they feel compelled to do as a developmental phase and would rather they did it with each other than other children so I don’t have the worry of someone elses Mum beating *me* up LOL! If you find a solution let me know though!