Not content with the whole birthday celebration lasting for days, Big topped it off by pulling her first tooth out this morning. Apparently the conversation went something like this:
A: “hasn’t that tooth come out yet?”
Big: “No.”
A: “I think you should just pull it out”
Big: “No, it would h…ooh, look, my tooth!”
The end result looks something like this
Now all I have to do is work out what I think about the whole tooth fairy thing…apparently they’ve been talking about it at school all day. She brought the tooth home in a little plastic pot, and in the best spirit of home education, A, the principal, leapt on the topic and they did some stuff on pairs, (? well, I think that’s what she said) and then talked about the anatomy of teeth and did various other vaguely related things as well. Quite amused on how much more like home education their school is than home atm 😀
Small spent some time in the children’s house today as well, did some pink tower and cylinders, with and without knobs. Apparently A says that when she started out teaching montessori, she was very rigidly by the book, but both her and K, the other trained teacher, soon discovered that the children get much more out of it if they are allowed the time and space to explore the materials, so that’s what they did. I’m betting Small really enjoyed it, and I’m fairly sure he’ll have got lots out of it. Whether it is what was intended I guess we’ll never know.
And tonight I’ve been dotting around reading blogs and pondering. I’m pondering blogs, resources, education, life, you know the kind of thing you do when you’re avoiding paperwork and form finding and filling 😉 I’ve got some more ideas, but I’m going to let them just filter through for a day or two and then come back with a properly formed post about it all.
(But look, I managed a photo, and I remembered new resolutions about hugs and saying nice things…tell me, does it get easier with practice? Does that make me an incredibly poor parent to admit that after 6 years, I still need practice at being cuddly with my first offspring? )
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7 responses to “Happy gapday!”
Wow, a gap! They’re still big events here, after seven lost teeth.
You are so not a poor parent Jax. 🙂 Just some people are good at some things, and some people are good at others. Jonathan nags me to hug my Mum more, and I know she needs it, but I do find it hard, so I’m training my children intensively to hug, so we won’t be in the same position in 30 years time. 😉
Not if you’re admitting it 😉
Some people never work stuff like that out so I think 6 years is pretty good 🙂
I’m sure my first tooth out was a bottom one so interested to note I probably need to be on wobble alert for different ones too with D. And we’ve been talking about tooth fairies here this week and whether we’re going down that route when it happens too so I’ll be interested to hear what you decide.
We approached it in the same way we did Father Christmas…a fun game. Although we often forgot and the last tooth went under her pillow for over a week until she asked if she could just have the money!
Admitting it and acting on it in no way makes you a poor parent Jax 🙂 A poor parent would never have realised. I find it hard to imagine hugs not coming naturally, but only because I’m very huggy. I’m crap at playing with my kids and I have to remind myself to do it 🙁 I can read to them for hours, snuggle, chat, walk with them, learn with them, cook with them….but playing doesn’t come naturally. I’m not a poor parent and neither are you.
Speaking as one who had to be told to cuddle Becca when she was a baby (well, the instruction pick up baby randomely and cuddle it did not appear in the manual!) yes, it does get a bit easier to remember with parctice!!!
Keep practising! 🙂
We tooth fairy BIG time and it is just a delight to do. The children write little notes and the fairy replies with tales of fairyland in the tinest writing you have ever seen. They fairy leaves a gift, usually a crystal or special stone but sometimes something else. The last tooth resulted in the construction of a bed for her to rest in and a playmobile bike being left out for her to play on :-). I just love the whole magicness of it all and the wonder is amazing to watch and listen to 🙂
youre a great parent, and alwas tryng to improve, how ca you do better than that?