Nor custom stale
Rough morning. Charlie's rocking and rolling, objecting to everything, construing even the mildest guiding word as a slur against his honouuuur. After sixty or seventy gentle remonstrances, quiet redirections, and calm changes of subject, I'm starting to lose my cool. I finally fling away my patience with both hands and tell him to go, just gooooooooooo. GO get in theCAR before I go all cannibal hamster and eat my tender pink young.His parting salvo is"Ben never has to get sent anywhere whenhe's behaving badly!"The door slams and Ben runs over to it. Ben, you see, is helpful.He opens it, leans out, an...
Source: a little pregnant - February 7, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Source Type: blogs
Nor custom stale
Rough morning. Charlie's rocking and rolling, objecting to everything, construing even the mildest guiding word as a slur against his honouuuur. After sixty or seventy gentle remonstrances, quiet redirections, and calm changes of subject, I'm starting to lose my cool. I finally fling away my patience with both hands and tell him to go, just gooooooooooo. GO get in the CAR before I go all cannibal hamster and eat my tender pink young.
His parting salvo is "Ben never has to get sent anywhere when he's behaving badly!"
The door slams and Ben runs over to it. Ben, you see, is helpful.
He opens it, leans o...
Source: a little pregnant - February 7, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Source Type: blogs
Short list, long post
A Brief List of What Has Improved Since Charlie Started at Hippie Do As You Please School
Everything
There. See you again in six months!
...Perhaps I'll get more specific. But first I'll have to work hard to cast my mind back to where we were at the end of second grade. It's a little hard to remember, because human consciousness mercifully retains only the outlines of past agony instead of actually recreating the sensation of repeatedly dropping an anvil on your foot every time you recall it. Just, K through 2 were hell on a pedicure, is all I'll say about that.
This year is different. Instead of te...
Source: a little pregnant - January 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Short list, long post
A Brief List of What Has Improved Since Charlie Started at Hippie Do As You Please SchoolEverythingThere. See you again in six months!...Perhaps I'll get more specific. But first I'll have to work hard to cast my mind back to where we were at the end of second grade. It's a little hard to remember, because human consciousness mercifully retains only the outlines of past agony instead of actually recreating the sensation of repeatedly dropping an anvil on your foot every time you recall it. Just, K through 2 were hell on a pedicure, is all I'll say about that.This year is different. Instead of tears, a...
Source: a little pregnant - January 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Short list, long post
A Brief List of What Has Improved Since Charlie Started at Hippie Do As You Please School
Everything
There. See you again in six months!
...Perhaps I'll get more specific. But first I'll have to work hard to cast my mind back to where we were at the end of second grade. It's a little hard to remember, because human consciousness mercifully retains only the outlines of past agony instead of actually recreating the sensation of repeatedly dropping an anvil on your foot every time you recall it. Just, K through 2 were hell on a pedicure, is all I'll say about that.
This year is different. Instead of te...
Source: a little pregnant - January 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Plague of locust
The last swim of the summer took place in our neighbor's pool. After the standard boyish frolic (gleeful pantsing) and the requisite motherly threats (baleful warning), Charlie and his friend H. grudgingly hauled themselves out, toweled off, and prepared to trudge back home. But as they walked past the pool filter's reservoir, H. spotted a grasshopper, floating, apparently dead."Let's take it home," he suggested, and Charlie was quick to agree: "Yeah! We can cut it open!"
My lifted brow was eloquent enough that he hastened to add, "And look at it with a magnifying glass." (You know, Mama: For Science!)
Back at my house, th...
Source: a little pregnant - September 24, 2013 Category: Infertility Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Plague of locust
The last swim of the summer took place in our neighbor ' s pool. After the standard boyish frolic (gleeful pantsing) and the requisite motherly threats (baleful warning), Charlie and his friend H. grudgingly hauled themselves out, toweled off, and prepared to trudge back home. But as they walked past the pool filter ' s reservoir, H. spotted a grasshopper, floating, apparently dead." Let ' s take it home, " he suggested, and Charlie was quick to agree: " Yeah! We can cut it open! "My lifted brow was eloquent enough that he hastened to add, " And look at it with a magnifying glass. " (You know, Mama: For Science!)Back at my...
Source: a little pregnant - September 24, 2013 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Plague of locust
The last swim of the summer took place in our neighbor's pool. After the standard boyish frolic (gleeful pantsing) and the requisite motherly threats (baleful warning), Charlie and his friend H. grudgingly hauled themselves out, toweled off, and prepared to trudge back home. But as they walked past the pool filter's reservoir, H. spotted a grasshopper, floating, apparently dead."Let's take it home," he suggested, and Charlie was quick to agree: "Yeah! We can cut it open!"
My lifted brow was eloquent enough that he hastened to add, "And look at it with a magnifying glass." (You know, Mama: For Science!)
Back at my house, th...
Source: a little pregnant - September 24, 2013 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Who walks in the classroom, cool and slow
If I'd been blogging it all along, cataloguing it day by discouraging day, I wonder if it would seem inevitable. I'm a little bit afraid, instead, that this comes out of the blue: Charlie's changing schools. After three years at the public elementary, this fall he'll go to what I self-consciously call Hippie Do As You Please School.
We've known since October of his kindergarten year that he needed lots of structure and support, and I'm grateful to say that he's gotten it: the 504 plan; the occupational therapy; the physical therapy; the daily social learning; the kindness and heroic forebearance...
Source: a little pregnant - August 15, 2013 Category: Infertility Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge GD MF ADHD Source Type: blogs
Who walks in the classroom, cool and slow
If I'd been blogging it all along, cataloguing it day by discouraging day, I wonder if it would seem inevitable. I'm a little bit afraid, instead, that this comes out of the blue: Charlie's changing schools. After three years at the public elementary, this fall he'll go to what I self-consciously call Hippie Do As You Please School.We've known since October of his kindergarten year that he needed lots of structure and support, and I'm grateful to say that he's gotten it: the 504 plan; the occupational therapy; the physical therapy; the daily social learning; the kindness and heroic forebearance ...
Source: a little pregnant - August 15, 2013 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge GD MF ADHD Source Type: blogs
Who walks in the classroom, cool and slow
If I'd been blogging it all along, cataloguing it day by discouraging day, I wonder if it would seem inevitable. I'm a little bit afraid, instead, that this comes out of the blue: Charlie's changing schools. After three years at the public elementary, this fall he'll go to what I self-consciously call Hippie Do As You Please School.
We've known since October of his kindergarten year that he needed lots of structure and support, and I'm grateful to say that he's gotten it: the 504 plan; the occupational therapy; the physical therapy; the daily social learning; the kindness and heroic forebearance...
Source: a little pregnant - August 15, 2013 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge GD MF ADHD Source Type: blogs
