Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Parents hate to admit it when their kid isn’t quite where he should be developmentally. Dads especially seem to have a hard time with this. Hey, that’s my kid. He’s perfect! We had one of those dads in today. We recommended that the child see a speech therapist weekly. We [...]
We had been studying our colors for awhile and I decided to switch to numbers. I pointed at the crayons on the table and said to the child, “Will you count the crayons for me?” He said yes, then began to count: “One. Two. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Nine. Ten. [...]
Today in the school cafeteria they served spaghetti. It came accompanied by green salad and fresh pineapple. (Yes, fresh.) There was also milk and homemade dinner rolls. (Yes, homemade.) I kid you not, I have eaten worse food in fancy restaurants. The only damper on the meal is that before [...]
… fights over favored toys. … squabbles over listening to the story. …fights over who was helping teacher as circle leader. Today we swept no food off the cafeteria floor after lunch. Today no one went into time out for hitting his friend. Today all the children took a nap. [...]
No behavior problems today — unless you count an abundance of hugs a problem. I am throughly fingerprinted from head-to-toe in love. How is it they know exactly the moment they’d better turn sweet or somebody will kill them? [...]