In case any of you are wondering why I'm using a Fear & Loathing quote to title this blog. Check out the picture. I'm quite certain, that my daughter, is the long lost child of Hunter S Thompson. Just take away the copious amounts of illegal substances and add some well placed snorkels, alligator tails & a flooded bedroom... And that would be her life! If that's her life, then of COURSE! My life must be filled with fantastical joy or imagination. That would be WRONG.
I set out with the best of all intentions in this homeschooling adventure. I honestly thought that after 25 years of going to school... The LEAST that I would be able to do was corral and focus my 5 year old for a little while through out the day. I had it ALL planned out. Then my daughter found those plans, & took them to her Dad. He then looked up how to make some fantastic paper airplane out of it and then... My plans went up a sophisticated folded idea and down a crumbled pile of trash.
I, by nature, am a English/history person. My husband, by nature, is a math/science person. I figured that I could get Noodle love reading and writing as much as I do, by the magnitude of my enthusiasm. That's not always the case. Noodle is a science person. She's a number person. She is NOT a reading/writing person. I think at the present time, she's on track to be come a paleontologist or a entomologist. If it's cold blooded, roars, and lived 50 billion years ago... She knows ALL about it. Ask her to spell her name in both upper case and lower case letters... And she tells you that all upper is fine. "No one really NEEDS the lower case one's. They're extra." The frustration is incredible. I'm determined to be a success at this. However, only if success is judged by Noodle correcting dinosaur information programs.... If so... I'm queen of the world!
i feel your pain. If its not a train, a car or anything with wheels, my son doesnt want anything to do with it! lol.
ReplyDeleteBut i try to apply a piece of advice the doctor gave me and something i read once about putting foods in front of children even if they have tried and spit it out the first time. This is especially true at the first stages of eating solid foods as they develop their own tastes.
So i have taken that advice and used it in ALL aspects of my son's life. I have discovered that he loves christmas lights (or any lights really), he likes castles, cats, anything soft and furry, and playing my grandmother's organ. Best of all he LOVES books.
He goes to a 2 year old program 1 morning a week and if nothing else, I am learning through his teachers what his abilities are and where his interests are pointing.