r and i played a fun game today on the way to acrobat class. we jumped over lava flows to get there. it was definitely a strenuous exercise involving a lot of leg work. for those of you who did not notice, we live on a planet full of volcanoes and snow. so there are constant eruptions and avalanches. the challenge to survival is to leap over dangerous spots. we had a harrying trip off the parking ramp mountain in our snowmobile as the avalanche came down behind us. luckily we made it. life in the subzero temperatures of the midwest requires such imaginative play.
r's brain, he informs us, is very full and busy. i can believe it. i have lots of evidence to support this statement. as a parent, i am not sure how to best manage this. i know this is my usual lament. i just find it baffling that i can tell him that he has 10 minutes to eat his breakfast and 10 minutes to play his trains after the timer is done before we have to go to school. he cannot stop touching the trains. he does not eat, all of the time passes, and then he says he is hungry. while he understands the consequence, he is unable to inhibit himself to stop even though the outcome will be one he does not like. AND he will do the same thing again tomorrow despite the experience today. the disciplinarian in me wants him to feel the full effect of the consequence so that he is hungry and can try to understand and learn. what i have learned is that he does not learn and even though i am not trying to shame him, he feels bad and still cannot help it. of course, he did not get more time to eat at home. my compromise was that i gave him and his sister a small snack in the car as we went to school. it was very limited and not the preferred food from breakfast. he also did not get any thing else to drink as i reminded both kids "i am not a cow or a water fountain, and the car is not a kitchen."
k was snuggly last night with a few kicks thrown in. r climbed down and joined us in bed this morning (getting up early on his own lately -- we are doing something right!). he and k snuggled and got along momentarily. it was nice. he was also the first one of us dressed and downstairs!
dad visited another mediocre minneapolis school today. i think we have one more minneapolis school and one st paul school to look at. none of the minneapolis schools that we like start at a time r can get up in the morning. so this is definitely a challenge. we might have to half-day kindergarten him and do some homeschooling as support. any volunteers for helping out?
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