I created a chore "list" for us to work on. Some weeks it seems to work well. Others well... Not so well. I told them that they are to wash dishes on their day, or they will stack up the following day. Imagine John's surprise when "we sure do have a lot of silverware" when he didn't wash yesterday. Told me, "you didn't tell me to wash them". I was able to reply, we went over the list, Zach had to do the same thing last week I think. So.... They are supposed to cook one day a week too.. John made us eggs and ramen last week. They were pretty good!
I was fortunate enough not to have chores growing up. My mom did it all.. Now I am not as nice as my mom. We have established that in our house, but they can both know how to do dishes, cook and laundry. Not to mention dusting, and mopping which I haven't been as diligent with as I should have been. We have concrete painted floors, so even though sweeping and mopping don't take much time, every dustbunny is very obvious to see.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
ADD
We home school, not as a result of hating the public school system, but because I didn't like the way his education was progressing. His teacher told me that the only reason he was receiving good grades was a result of her telling him repeatedly to pay attention. She also had filled out the questionnaire that is given to them to give to the doctor to enable the little guy to be put on medication. He is very bright and inquisitive. Curious all the time about the how, why, where when and if.
He is very much a dreamer. But he is also a practical little thing. Give him a bit of time and he will figure out how to do some of the most complicated chores. He was helping his Paw Paw with scrap at his place. Paw Paw would put the outer cover from stripping wire into a feed bag, John took it to put in the trash area. On his way my father-in-law wondered if he would be able to get them in the receptacle as they are pretty heavy. He worked and worked it out until he was able to lever them into the area. I have seen him take something that I wanted to go in and help him with walk around the item and figure out the best way to do whatever it is he was working to achieve. His brother on the other hand probably would have left it sitting beside the can, came back and said it was too heavy.
I have been reading on quite a bit of ADD/ADHD medicated vs non medicated as my oldest was diagnosed with ADHD. We had him on medication when about my youngest son's age. He was awesome for the teachers, they just thought he was wonderful for them. He was able to sit still for longer periods, but I wonder, if the lord made soooo many little boys like mine have ants in their pants, why then would we be expected to medicate it out of them?
My oldest can sit and play on the computer, talk to me, plus keep up with varied texts he is receiving all at the same time.. And I ramble a lot. But he does listen and keep up with all the techno "stuff".. I wonder how he could sit still and just listen to someone talk.. I can't do it for long periods of time. I am not sure how I made it through high school. I remember in elementary school, unable to keep my mouth shut. For some reason at that given moment I HAD to say something.. I am still that way. Went to lunch with a friend the other day. She told me that she could go all day without talking to anyone plus no one talking to her. I replied I could never ever do that.. I would go NUTS.. She has worked with me, so she knows.. I usually talked about work, I analyzed stuff that no one ever thought about. Things that they never thought they needed to think about. Not sure if that was positive or not, probably not..
He is very much a dreamer. But he is also a practical little thing. Give him a bit of time and he will figure out how to do some of the most complicated chores. He was helping his Paw Paw with scrap at his place. Paw Paw would put the outer cover from stripping wire into a feed bag, John took it to put in the trash area. On his way my father-in-law wondered if he would be able to get them in the receptacle as they are pretty heavy. He worked and worked it out until he was able to lever them into the area. I have seen him take something that I wanted to go in and help him with walk around the item and figure out the best way to do whatever it is he was working to achieve. His brother on the other hand probably would have left it sitting beside the can, came back and said it was too heavy.
I have been reading on quite a bit of ADD/ADHD medicated vs non medicated as my oldest was diagnosed with ADHD. We had him on medication when about my youngest son's age. He was awesome for the teachers, they just thought he was wonderful for them. He was able to sit still for longer periods, but I wonder, if the lord made soooo many little boys like mine have ants in their pants, why then would we be expected to medicate it out of them?
My oldest can sit and play on the computer, talk to me, plus keep up with varied texts he is receiving all at the same time.. And I ramble a lot. But he does listen and keep up with all the techno "stuff".. I wonder how he could sit still and just listen to someone talk.. I can't do it for long periods of time. I am not sure how I made it through high school. I remember in elementary school, unable to keep my mouth shut. For some reason at that given moment I HAD to say something.. I am still that way. Went to lunch with a friend the other day. She told me that she could go all day without talking to anyone plus no one talking to her. I replied I could never ever do that.. I would go NUTS.. She has worked with me, so she knows.. I usually talked about work, I analyzed stuff that no one ever thought about. Things that they never thought they needed to think about. Not sure if that was positive or not, probably not..
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Starting on my journey
Hi, I have never blogged before, so not sure what is the best way to start. So, if you are reading this, please bear with me as I start this new to me thing. I have read many other people's blogs and enjoy them tremendously.
I am a mom of two. Married, happily. Not really exciting, generally we like it that way.
One of our boys is 17 almost 18. Regular challenges, working through them one day at a time. Driving, he had a vehicle, but as we didn't tell him step by step thinking he would have observed the all important items in driving a vehicle it ran out of water and oil thus cracking the heads we think. So Craigs list. Public school, to Charter school tried homeschooling (failed terribly) so back to Charter school to hopefully finish this year. Awesome staff really interested in him as a student and what is best for his (as an individual) future. I am an advocate of them, we just started with them last year, and it was the break my son needed.
Also have a 9 year old almost 10. We are homeschooling him. Working on our curriculum. I didn't buy one massive one. Rather than doing that the "easy" way. Like I do most things I wanted to do it on my own. Putting one together. Sometimes it seems easy, you know the days that flooooowwww. Then others stop and go stop and go. Finally, just doing what we need to in other areas. He is learning sometimes despite whatever is going on in our household. Science kits we receive in the mail, Charlotte Mason method in writing and language arts, Scouting as our citizenship, and math, we do a variety of things, from workbooks to math books from the library plus the all mighty Internet, working on using every day items and activities to solidify his knowledge.
Many times over the past year, I wish I had home schooled our older son, but as they say.. "hindsight is 20/20."
I am a mom of two. Married, happily. Not really exciting, generally we like it that way.
One of our boys is 17 almost 18. Regular challenges, working through them one day at a time. Driving, he had a vehicle, but as we didn't tell him step by step thinking he would have observed the all important items in driving a vehicle it ran out of water and oil thus cracking the heads we think. So Craigs list. Public school, to Charter school tried homeschooling (failed terribly) so back to Charter school to hopefully finish this year. Awesome staff really interested in him as a student and what is best for his (as an individual) future. I am an advocate of them, we just started with them last year, and it was the break my son needed.
Also have a 9 year old almost 10. We are homeschooling him. Working on our curriculum. I didn't buy one massive one. Rather than doing that the "easy" way. Like I do most things I wanted to do it on my own. Putting one together. Sometimes it seems easy, you know the days that flooooowwww. Then others stop and go stop and go. Finally, just doing what we need to in other areas. He is learning sometimes despite whatever is going on in our household. Science kits we receive in the mail, Charlotte Mason method in writing and language arts, Scouting as our citizenship, and math, we do a variety of things, from workbooks to math books from the library plus the all mighty Internet, working on using every day items and activities to solidify his knowledge.
Many times over the past year, I wish I had home schooled our older son, but as they say.. "hindsight is 20/20."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)