After his sick day off school and finishing the homework I made him do anyway, Grand Master D started teaching his sister the lattice method of multiplication and algebra! I haven’t seen this in a very long time… they are working together, using the chalk board they haven’t used for ages. The room magic continues……….it’s amazing 🙂 I have no …
Working on the Now, While Feeding into the Future
I read an amazing post recently on respect, teaching respect, gaining respect. How it’s a two way street. It reminded me of all the things I know and have learned over the years, reading all the books on child raising, that I just forgot. And in all honesty, haven’t used much lately. Solving the problems and having a harmonious household …
It’s Easier to Pull Teeth with Barbed Wire than get my 8yr old to Wash.
My kid must be allergic to water or soap or maybe both. I can’t think of any other reason. She has the fun products to use in the bathroom. The bubbles for the bath or the shower gel when she’s feeling in a more grown up mood. Nothing is helping. Â I coax, I bribe, I yell, I barge in and …
Sibling Squabbling.
Over the last few months the harmony in the household has shifted. Hormones have come into play. Our boy is becoming a young man and feels the instincts to lead and be a protector. This is completely normal and part of the passage to adulthood. The trouble is he’s using those new skills on his little sister and she’s none …
Television=Awesome Dance Moves….. At Least In Our House
Miss Gremlin is a funny little thing, she loves this ad, even does her own dance. She has a slight tv addiction. No, scrap that, she is totally hooked.
Don’t Argue
I have talked about this before. I’m talking about it again because it’s a pet hate. I am a grown up, you are a child…. I will not argue with you. Period. I have come into contact with several toddlers this week and have come to see that parents are negotiating too much with their children. I am not judging …
A Glimpse into the Future….. ?
I may or may not have just experienced my first pre-teen tantrum. It was messy, there were tears. He was pretty upset too 🙂 . I’m not sure I handled it well to begin with, the frustration went straight to 11. I think it was shock but in the end I just let it go. He had to collect himself, …
It’s a World Gone Mad…..
Oh wait the kids just swapped beds. In my total, wasted haze of befuddledness that was monday, I generously allowed the children to swap beds. Yeah I know it was a school night and being in new digs is not going to help them settle down and leave me the hell alone but they caught me at a weak moment. …
Tweens
Moving into the tween almost teen years is really testing my resolve. I am going to have to hit the books to solve these problems. I’ve got the sleeping, tantrum little kid thing down but this age is all new to me and it’s hard. I battled for an hour this morning with Grand Master D who insisted he was …
The Grammar Police
OMG! Working in a school with children is so interesting and frustrating at the same time. I work with kindergarten and 2nd grade each week and the way some of them speak is atrocious. “I don’t got no milk”. How do you even begin to work with that?