I seem to be permanently a day behind!
Let’s see, we’ve had a really lazy day. Feeling a bit rough myself, and sky’s really grey, so pjs were the order of the day, and taking it easy.
Lots of imaginative play meant that the floor went missing very early on, and didn’t reappear til I finally sent the offspring to bed.
Big did a page of maths, which was a bit of a disaster as she decided to basically scribble instead of write on it. Such a shame as I know that she knows how to do the maths, and it does annoy me to see waste which is effectively what scribbling in a workbook is to my mind. So instead of getting into a fight over a reading lesson, I set up studydog for her, and she spent the best part of two hours on that. Not quite sure what she did on it, but she seemed to be having fun, so that has to be good, right?
Small is getting more challenging in some of his ways – couple of near tantrums today, mainly over the fact that one or other of us doesn’t understand what he is saying he wants. And he sank his teeth into Big’s arm in the bath tonight, which was nice. Not. Very experimental way of doing it too, brings back the memories!
Made me think that it’s funny – he’s spent very nearly 100% of his life in my company, and in some ways I understand him as little as I did Big at this age. So maybe it’s partly the age and not the upbringing?
They both ‘spoke’ to their Grandfather tonight (his birthday) to check that he got their cards – it took quite a lot of explanation to get Small to put his card into the postbox yesterday, and I can see his point of view.
I’ve done some more of my studying this evening, two units down, another 7 to go. So there you go, we’re all learning atm.
Aargh, I can hear small footsteps – g’night all!
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Tamsin usually scribbles when I give her any puzzle pages/ workbooks etc, so we mostly just do them verbally (when we do them …) ATM – am saving the books till she can do them ‘properly’…. is this sensible frugality or anal-retentiveness…?
I can’t work out if you’re beating yourself up about small biting or not. If you are- don’t, most do it, it is ‘age’. Titch gave it a go (also in the bath- must be the tempting expanse of flesh or maybe the water brings out a primative urge 😉 )and she’s a very gentle sort of tot. She’s also tryed pinching, smacking (never in anything bt the spirit of curiosity as to outcome) etc. A firm no and removal to the bottom step nips it in the bud but most children have this phase but I do think it’s more disheartening if they’ve been with you solely as it’s tempting to do the self-blame thing. Not worth it.
Studygod sounds very popular on the ring atm- is it a reading tool? Pip is currently into ‘Jump ahead’, I think it’s quite lame but I have given computer stuff the cool cold shoulder for most her life so she’s easily entertained.
Don’t know where you are but we’ve had beautiful sunshine all yes. afternoon.
Heather – http://www.studydog.com/ – should think it would be in between your two though! There’s a lot of it, and it’s free – has to be good, lol. Glad Big’s been enjoying it Jax 🙂
And yes, lovely sunshine here too yesterday – it was about 20 degrees at one point 🙂
SB’s scribbling over my beautiful singapore maths books and messing them up is why we’ve moved to exeter maths at the mo, until she calms down!
When I have access to a photocopier on those resident nights ;¬) , then I might photocopy some of the singapore maths! Especially as I want to use it for 2!
Jax, is TRB and CC hosted via you? Is it just me or has it been offline for large chunks of a quite a few days of the last week?
are you talking about me? I haven’t had any problems!
It seems possible that Chris’s place of employment has deemed your blog too risque… 😉
Jax – are you working on CC just now? I can’t get into it – I can see the site, but it won’t let me access it. Fine if you are, but it seems to have been inaccessible for a while now, so just checking. Thanks