Now what?

[thanate]

Well. Last week was snow & grauwulf in the emergency room & the couch breaking; this week has begun with me getting called in on 15 minutes notice to sub for another preschool parent whose son had an emergency doctor visit (partly b/c three other kids were out sick already, so the substitution chain was missing several links), followed by grauwulf's mother spazzing out about suddenly-discovered health issues which set him off again, followed by the jug of vinegar I'd just bought from costco splitting along the bottom seam & leaking all over the floor right before we had to leave for swimming, and then my embroidery machine seizing up with a stray thread wrapped around its innards sufficiently that I have to take it in to someone who's more confident about taking the whole thing apart to get it out. And that's just inside the house. And it's only Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Megatherium continues to be all kinds of happy so long as she's around other kids, and spend a lot of her time moody and cranky at home, poor thing. She wants to spend all her time watching Dino Dan or having me read her "Barbie: Baby Doctor" or other books I can stand in about half an iteration six or seven times. So far, my pointing out that these things are designed so she can practice reading them *herself* has not borne any fruit.

She got her free book for (recording) 1K books before Kindergarten from the library yesterday, and her friend P---'s grandma has been glorious about playdates. And we are working on planning a Dinosaur B-day Party, so that should be fun, assuming we make it that long.

Comments

[queenoftheskies]

Yikes! I'm really sorry things have been so rough for you!

::HUGS:: I hope things settle down and improve soon.

[thanate]

Thanks-- same to you! It feels like everyone else is dealing with crazy, too.

[sartorias]

I remember reading saccharine books over and over with my daughter . . . despite my attempts at gender neutral she swerved firmly to glitter, pink, and purple. But she grew up to become a tech expert running backstage for theater, and now mid-thirties is making a career change to become an addiction therapist.

Meanwhile old me sorely misses those pink and purple days, which in retrospect seemed so very, very short.

[thanate]

I gave up on minding the pink thing some time ago (it's now about 3 years since she first declared her deep and abiding love of pink & she hasn't backed down yet) and we're solid on pink dinosaurs and wanting to be every career that's mentioned when she grows up. This morning it was sewing machine repair tech, since I explained that I was taking the embroidery machine in to someone who has practice putting it back together so it works again after taking it apart.

I will definitely miss reading her Ursula Vernon and Beatrix Potter and suchlike, but not the "level 1: ready to read" inanity which she could manage herself at this point if she were not stubbornly refusing to try. (So we split the work, & I pick a few words that I make her read, but still...)

[sartorias]

That stubbornly refuses to try sounds familiar. My daughter had absorbed the alphabet by the time she was eighteen months. I thought she'd be a very early reader as I was. Nope nope nope. Not having any. She wanted to be read TO. But the summer before she turned six, it suddenly occurred to her what the big kids were doing at school, and peers were everything. I am not kidding, it was overnight. Then there was no stopping her, especially when another six year old in her class started writing a novel about the kids in the class. No classic in the world was as electrifying as that novel about THEM, and the Power of the Word went through that class like dosing salts.