Category: Neurodivergence in Children
Some much needed socialisation
for me! The children attend Brownies and Beavers, and on Tuesday Big starts swimming lessons. I offer a variety of other opportunities to get out and about, and they take me up on walks to the beach, library outings, shopping. They aren’t much into groups though, which means I don’t get to spend all that…
The personal stuff
Went to doctor’s about Small this morning, referral to community paediatrician set in motion. Not sure what they do, but there you go. That was after I’d slept in, I’m not sleeping well during the night, so given that I’d arranged for Tim to get up with the children, when he did, I turned over.…
And an entertaining evening
But before we get there, details of the shopping spree I undertook this afternoon 🙂 Courtesy of the book ppl, I ordered Usborne Internet-Linked French for Beginners with CD, French club, Hide and Speak French (Hide & Speak) (which comes with a collection of activity books, looks a bit young, but Small does like activity…
Meet Jax, the entertaining educational machine.
As promised to the children, my alarm went off at 8 am this morning. Given that I didn’t get to sleep until well after midnight, despite being in bed before it, then woke again at 5 and did that horrid drifting dozing thing for a couple of hours, it took me several minutes to force…
Big wants to learn
Victorions Where we live Math’s Spelling Sionce a new langwig? Craft Poetry Accordingly, her library haul included two books on toys, Toys (What Was It Like in the Past?) and Look Inside a Victorian Toyshop. I found Seashore (Usborne Nature Trail) which I thought might help with learning more of the area around where we…
Because we should blog the bad with the good…
The day started with us overhearing a very convoluted game the children were playing downstairs (sleeping in the loft room means all noise comes up through the open hatch and as the children are not really capable of quiet, we get to hear everything they are up to). Anyway, as it became apparent that Small…
Looking at bikes.
Can’t actually remember what went on this morning (maybe there’s a drawback to not brightkiting after all 😉 ) although I’m sure there was something that I was planning on blogging. Then just before lunchtime we decided we’d walk out with Tim to look at bikes at the other independent bikeshop in town. Tim wanted…
Mixed weather, mixed day.
I hadn’t realised how weather reliant my children’s moods are – I know the sunshine affects me, but really hadn’t clicked on how much it changes them. So this morning, while it bucketed down, they watched mindless tv mainly, although there was yet another viewing of Horrible History (have realised that they have recorded one…
Grey day.
Saturday was kind of pathetic weather wise, especially compared to what we had at the beginning of the week, so I think that’s why the children couldn’t really be detached from the tv. Small does continue to write, draw and make things while the tv is flickering away, but it seems to short circuit Big’s…
Back to swimming lessons and first Beavers.
For unknown reasons I woke up at 5.30 in the morning and then couldn’t get properly back to sleep, so I was never going to be all sweetness and light for the day. Nevertheless I managed to persevere with calling the leisure centre until I finally managed to get the swimming teacher on the phone…