Category: Neurodivergence in Children
Backdating…
Getting behind with blogging, this is the story of Monday, typed up on Tues at Merry’s, and posted from the Beans on Weds 🙂 Can’t be bothered to change the date though! After the children get bored they move on to what is a more productive phase, depending on how you look at it. For…
Reading levels again.
Out of interest, following the Harry Potter fest, I revisited the reading tests that I did in December with the offspring. Small now gets about half the words in each box up to 88, never missing more than a couple in a row, although he declined to go any further (grade 8 month 8 –…
Boredom is good for them.
Over the last day or two, the children have started to get bored of the television and computer. This shows quite simply – they fight, which is not so good, and then they start to do other things, which is better. Big has played recorder and piano two days running, and they are both still…
Unsuccessful charity shop scouring
Given the number of Harry Potters in print, I find it slightly amazing how few there are in the charity shops in this town – our only find today was Azkaban, and we already have two copies of that. Oh well, we are sorted from the library right atm, I just wanted to be sure…
Politicising the offspring.
This afternoon Big and I have wrapped IT and civics together by sitting down to talk through and complete her response to the current review on home education. Her identifier was 1103, so the numbers are climbing steadily this week, good. Tim and I have had several conversations about it all, and it’s pretty much…
Yet more Harry Potter
You have to be careful when talking to literal minded youngsters. Small ended up sobbing on my lap at lunchtime today as he hadn’t had any breakfast. It had not been Tim’s intention to prevent the eating of breakfast when he said Small needed to tidy his bedroom first thing in the morning, as breakfast…
Yet another weekend.
I was very tired yesterday, not least because Tim and I stayed up unfeasibly late the night before catching up on TV 🙂 (As an aside I highly recommend Big Bang Theory – Season 1 [2007] especially for those of us with geeks or nerds in the family 😉 ). So I didn’t really do…
Another Melrose week.
I started to type up notes at Melrose so that I’d have a nice complete blog when I got home. I didn’t get very far. It was far more interesting to sit and chat and crochet or loom, play games, drink wine or tea or help with cooking. It was even OK to do washing…
Fitting more in
The children seem to have reached a stage where aimless wandering through the day is insufficient and they are both looking for something more structured to do. So I came down (late again, have stopped taking the diclofenax, would rather have the pain than the way I felt last night thank you very much) to…
Go to your room!
Whenever I send a child to their room atm (happens a couple of times a day for Big, couple of times a week for Small) they snatch up a book/ workbook whatever, and stamp off in a huff, and forget to come back down when the five minutes is up 🙂 So tonight they were…