he nearly weaned himself this evening. I don’t think he meant to wean himself, but I’m afraid that I take being kicked in the eye as a sign that we may not be doing this for much longer. 🙁 Why can’t he just lie still?
Anyway, some blogworthy educational moments, in no particular order.
Lots of number discussions, some to do with the walk-o-meter, which has unfortunately now gone missing. Beautiful conversation where Big for some reason started doubling numbers – 2+2 is 4, 4+4 is 8, 8+8 is…I’m stuck….16 supplies helpful mummy, and so she dashes upstairs to tell Tim, who says very good – so what is 16+16? Wish I could have seen the look on her face just then, bet withering wasn’t in it.
Religion is getting a bit of a look in, due to the season. We keep bashing away at the different ppl believe different things. Atm she believes God created the world, but doesn’t believe in God. Which is interesting. We tried to cover the nativity, but I realised I got it wrong when I said something about the “Lord Christ” and she said “what’s a Christ? Come to think of it, what’s a Lord?” Hohum. Tim read her the nativity that night, but she wasn’t impressed – there weren’t any pictures. Told him he should have used the version from the Children’s Treasury.
Had one of those cringeworthy why-did-I-just-do-that moments when opening the advent calendar earlier. She knows perfectly well that 15 comes after 14, but could she work out what 15 looks like? So why didn’t I just let it go and tell her? Reminded me of your elephant-starts-with-e moment, Joyce – but then again, I was rereading your article on mp yesterday.
Tim and I have had many discussions about education, we’re pretty much heading the autonomous route I think, but we’re going to have a low key discussion with Big and see what she wants to do. I’m desperate to order Draw Write Now as mother gave me some money to spend on resources for them as part of Christmas, but I figure perhaps I ought to wait until we’ve had our discussion. 😉
Small is coming along nicely – got a lovely piercing scream and had his first throw himself to the floor outside tantrum today. Also said “Grandma” yesterday, several times in fact. Hasn’t really said anything intelligible today though. He reminds me of Max from Max and Ruby, with the one word per episode approach 😉
I’m sure I’ve missed loads of stuff out, but I’m going to shutdown the machine now, and now I’m off to do some more Barbie clothes crocheting.
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Barbie crocheting? I’m sitting locked in the toilet with the laptop, cable under the door, while knitting BB’s wardrobe. Hannah helpfully bellowed in a while ago “have you got diarohea???”. Emm. No. Actually.
ROFLOLPMSL Joyce and Jax at the baby clothes in secret LOL.
very impressed at all the crocheting. I haven’t made a single present (yet)despite good intentions. I darent start something with a time limit.
I’d be very interested in your conversations about approaches. Especially the ones you have with Big. I am thinking about a similar route with Davies atm. I feel like I have had a small go with several approaches this year and the hands off one does seem to have proved most fruitful, but I also want him to take some responsibility for his education too – I would like to think this was a partnership. Both Ady and I would also like Ady to play a bigger role in the whole thing too, which is hard as he works long days Monday to Friday and then we tend to feel cheated if we don’t spend the weekends as a family of four. I also need to look at whether all the chasing around socialising we do has a positive or negative effect generally, particularly with our new group starting in January… Hmmm, looking forward to a good old chat with you at Melrose Jax, we seem to be in a similar place again just now.
Such is life- you can’t crochet barbie clothes and take on other ppls LEAs BUT you can take on other ppls LEAs later in life, but Big won’t want the crochet barbie clothes later in life.
I was quite gratefull when Titch happily weaned at 16 mths(ish) coz I was fed up with the nipple pinching, nibbling, on-offing, wriggling. It’s just not like when they were tweeny-newborns is it!