Category: Neurodivergence in Children
Something's got to change.
Another day of petty squabbling and far too much screen time, with reluctance to go outside (it did rain somewhat, which didn’t help) which culminated in tears at bedtime when Small wanted to play as they barely had all day, while Big wanted to be read to. So instead I convened an impromptu family meeting…
swimming and wayside school.
We’ve got two more morning swimming lessons before it switches back to evenings, and I can hardly wait. Small is not a morning person. Well, I’m not a morning person either, but I don’t actually throw tantrums about it. Not that he was too horrendous – he does like his swimming lesson. Not sure how…
Days not to dwell on
Monday was one of those days. By about 10 o’clock I was offering Big out on brightkite – she was in a foul mood for no apparent reason, and any interchange with her resulted in screaming and wailing or stropping on her part. Not fun. Despite this, she managed to be quite productive, and started…
two hours on my own
although why I spent them in Sainsburys I can’t imagine! That was the afternoon though. The morning passed in the standard haze of ‘putering and refereeing small squabbles about who had overrun their turn and so on. Won a knitting machine on freecycle – principle is that we can give it a try, if we…
A little art appreciation in the morning.
It was the last day of the local art group’s art exhibition yesterday, so I decided that we were going to make it down there, and organised a family walk out. Beautiful weather – very sunny and hot again. Kids were slightly displeased about being dragged away from the ‘puter but not too grotty about…
and so to Friday.
Had invited Big’s friend C round for a playdate, but didn’t tell the children til this morning as I couldn’t stand the steadily mounting excitement pitch that I would have had, nor the disappointment if she didn’t turn up. Was getting slightly panicked as it passed the appointed time, but she did show, maybe 10…
Maths in the morning, maths in the evening
a little bit of time-travelling in between 😉 A good way to spend a Thursday. Kids started the day with putering, but soon drifted towards their maths books, aided by Tim and me taking them out to the garage to find the scales so that Small could do all the weighing experiments that he couldn’t…
Deliveries, friends and a trip to the beach.
Got up this morning to find two deliveries in the porch – maths books from Maths no problem and our new veg box from Abel and Cole. The veg box scared me slightly, so I left it in the kitchen while I hid behind a netbook, but the maths books went down really well with…
swimming, putering and HE courtesy of Tesco.
Swimming first thing this morning, which necessitated waking up Small and dragging him out of bed. Shouldn’t have bothered, as according to the leisure centre he doesn’t exist – there was no letter for him for his next block of lessons. Eventually got to the bottom of it with A the swimming lesson coordinator. Well,…
hovercraft, puters and stuff
Didn’t have a good night’s sleep last night, so was reluctant to start the day today. Am told by Tim that I missed Small strumming his guitar this morning, but there you go. Once I was down and breakfasted, the whole family collaborated over yet another Science School project, this time he wanted to make…