Category: Neurodivergence in Children
Echoes of the past.
At the weekend I found a diary that I kept for around 18 months in the late 90s. It details a relationship or two, a job or two, my state of mind, and most particularly, at least to my state of mind tonight, it details the evening when I called my parents’ house to find…
Another weekend
another car load of stuff. 🙁 I don’t think of us as particularly materialistic (stop sniggering at the back there) yet the amount of stuff is phenomenal, granted a lot of it is books, or things I should have got rid of but haven’t, but even so. Today I bagged up another bag of rubbish…
When will I learn?
Two months ago, I posted about Small’s reading. I talked about whole word recognition, and how that’s what we were focussing on. We didn’t tell Small that. Somewhere since then, pretty much unaided, especially as he didn’t come to school that much in holiday club, he decided that he would get phonics, figure out most…
A good day
started by the fact that I didn’t surface until 12.30, as I was finishing off my book, The Margarets 🙂 Not sure that I can be bothered to write a separate book review post (although I ought, as there are a couple of other books I’ve read that I haven’t reviewed yet. But there you)…
One week down
of our new school attendance pattern, and I think it’s gone pretty well all round. Big is now going four days a week, and Small three, so they’re both back to flexi-schooling, which I think suits them both well. Big is slightly unimpressed that Small gets a whole day of Daddy to himself, but seems…
Drifting along.
Quite worrying that before I post I have to read the last post to work out what we’ve been doing… I can’t actually remember Saturday terribly well. Ah yes. Big made her first purse out of the wool we’d bought on Friday, so we went down to the shop again to buy some more of…
lessons in life
Today I found the right motivation to teach Small some more maths. I informed him that if he could count his own money out of the pile, he could have the same pocket money at Big gets (£1 a week) rather than the 50p he’s been getting. It took an hour, but he counted out…
Books finished today
Right-brained Children in a Left-brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child Jeffrey Freed. Borrowed this one from Kirsty following ponderings on Small, who most definitely doesn’t fit into standard assessments of learning styles or behaviours. I don’t know whether he’s right brained though, as he cheated on the test I gave him to…
Remiss.
In blogging. I will regret that if I don’t catch up a little as it will be a week I can’t remember. So some highlights, or at least memory prompts. Walking – I’ve walked to friend’s house to feed her cat 5 times, but not Thursday as it was really rather wet. I feel good…
relaxing weekend.
I did attempt to locate Bil and the children, but got no response to text or calls, so when C called up to invite us over to meltham instead, it seemed a good idea. We loaded up with sunsuits, suncream, sunhats and towels and went and sat in the garden, with Pimms and home made…