We’d had ppl overload. A week of friends, family, partying and travel, and the children were somewhat fractious. So we had a quiet couple of days in and around the house to see if we could pull ourselves back together.
Turned out I certainly needed it. I was dazed and confused for most of Sunday, and not a great deal better Monday.
Big didn’t fun swim as her friend is a bit under the weather so wasn’t up to it. Small had Beavers and it was our night to be parent helpers, so I walked him round and stayed.
Enlightening evening. Been a while since I’ve spent time with a group of children who aren’t home educated. And I don’t think I’ve ever spent time interacting with a group solely made up of 6-8 year old boys. The group is very structured and well led and I think that helps a lot, but overall, I’m really pleased I’m not a primary school teacher, I don’t think that all my pupils would survive the experience 😉
Small, although in a world of his own, is not badly behaved, or at least, doesn’t stand out for bad behaviour in a group of his peers. Or not unless he loses his temper, in which case I rather think he does. But we’re working on that. He does stand out for other reasons – none of the rest of them coloured in their world cup footballers in the strip for Stratford East (if you don’t know the club that’s probably because it’s straight out of the pages of Alex Rider :D)
We have discovered that he handles Beavers much better when I walk him round there, giving him chance to settle into the idea, and since I started doing that, he’s stopped saying he doesn’t want to go any more. Or mainly stopped saying it – it does rather depend on what he’s doing at the time we need to get ready to leave.
Anyway, it was Beavers, it was good, I got lots of exercise carrying soa for best part of two hours 🙂
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