Today we had some familiar "negative energy" from Sister...she had a bad attitude pretty much off and on all day and was getting pretty belligerent at what was just a simple explanation. This is my challenge with her and probably will never go away. It really is a struggle she has but is getting better with age. She had some privileges removed and hopefully tomorrow her attitude is adjusted in a better way.
The part that was too bad was that she did a great job on her project. She is working on her sanitizer project and had to have the rough draft done in a few days. It sounded great, but when she added a cost comparison I asked her how many uses each cost represented...you can't compare unless you take that into account - or it shouldn't be included at all. She got really p.o.'d to the point of disrespect. This is real life. Kids give us challenges that are kind of funny, but so not funny at the same time.
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Little Y guy is still continuing on with working in his little preschool book and learning letters. The other day big sister was playing school on the chalk board with him - but it was actually just "real" school. She was helping him learn letters. They do a lot of pretend play that ranges from ninja battles, to silly scenarios, making movies, doing reviews - pretty random but my philosophy is that it is realllly important to their development both socially and intellectually to give them plenty of time to PLAY. To have an eleven and a half year old that still plays like THAT is pretty amazing. I sadly had gone way, way past that level by that age and was hanging out with older kids and worrying if I was cool.
I like that there is a sense of both orneriness and innocence in our kids.
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Little-big brother is working through his checklist every day, too. Last week I talked about how we are introducing a fourth grade social studies text into his learning. He has almost totally gotten over the intimidation of a big text book and I'm having him read sections and answer questions. The sections are very small, and the vocab is easily identifiable. I make sure he writes in complete sentences, and is mindful of neatness. He read the last book in his Percy Jackson series in about 24 hours and we need to get back to the library so he has a chapter book to read. For today, it was Calvin and Hobbes...we have all of them via Daddy's collection. Someday I should really sit down and read them, they are apparently totally awesome!
The part that was too bad was that she did a great job on her project. She is working on her sanitizer project and had to have the rough draft done in a few days. It sounded great, but when she added a cost comparison I asked her how many uses each cost represented...you can't compare unless you take that into account - or it shouldn't be included at all. She got really p.o.'d to the point of disrespect. This is real life. Kids give us challenges that are kind of funny, but so not funny at the same time.
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Little Y guy is still continuing on with working in his little preschool book and learning letters. The other day big sister was playing school on the chalk board with him - but it was actually just "real" school. She was helping him learn letters. They do a lot of pretend play that ranges from ninja battles, to silly scenarios, making movies, doing reviews - pretty random but my philosophy is that it is realllly important to their development both socially and intellectually to give them plenty of time to PLAY. To have an eleven and a half year old that still plays like THAT is pretty amazing. I sadly had gone way, way past that level by that age and was hanging out with older kids and worrying if I was cool.
I like that there is a sense of both orneriness and innocence in our kids.
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Little-big brother is working through his checklist every day, too. Last week I talked about how we are introducing a fourth grade social studies text into his learning. He has almost totally gotten over the intimidation of a big text book and I'm having him read sections and answer questions. The sections are very small, and the vocab is easily identifiable. I make sure he writes in complete sentences, and is mindful of neatness. He read the last book in his Percy Jackson series in about 24 hours and we need to get back to the library so he has a chapter book to read. For today, it was Calvin and Hobbes...we have all of them via Daddy's collection. Someday I should really sit down and read them, they are apparently totally awesome!
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