Well, the plan of updating daily didn't make it. And honestly I was worried it wouldn't. Because I'm bad about updating things when I mean to. I get distracted.
Speaking of, I should add some links to my daily distractions in the side bar.
Now, Hubb and I have been talking about this subject for the past few days. He's gotten the idea that our oldest is a little bit afraid of him, and isn't sure what to do about it. But it's not just that. So here's what were pondering over.
M is not a big Try-er. He looks too often to someone else for the answer instead of trying to figure it out on his own. Now if we were talking Algebra...then yeah, he'd need some help. But were talking reading simple words to read them, answering questions (he's gotten better at math now that they have to "show" how they did it. Meaning he gets to draw something out.
When it comes to riding a bike, he's only half trying, not pushing himself to really use it. We end up getting on to him more about it because he's not keeping up. And we want bike riding to be fun for him. He's excited about getting to go for a ride, but not the actual doing it. And we went out and bought ourselves bikes so that we could all ride around the neighborhood together. LM is riding like a champ, but he's always a give it your all kind of kiddo. So were trying to step back and figure out why M doesn't really seem into anything.
M mentioned the other day in the car that the other kids at school run faster than he does. He said they run fast-fast and he runs slow-fast. I explained at that point that not everyone is the best at everything, thinking that's where the conversation needed to go, not wanting to chide him about pushing himself harder.
Now I'm not sure what to say to him. We want him to try, but as Hubb had an overbearing parent, and I had a military one {so not far from overbearing} we don't want to fall into the pitfalls of pushing your kid too hard. We are both fairly stubborn people and expect some stubbornness from the boys, but don't want to push them into being stubborn.
M has also never been much for the unfamiliar. He doesn't like to try new things {activity wise} and tends to say he's scared of it. When we started working on them riding bikes, he'd get upset and jump off the bike as soon as it started rolling, saying it was going too fast.
So we aren't really sure what to do now. M has started Scouts, and Hubb is his den leader. M has made a new best friend and thankfully now has a kid in the neighborhood to play with. {our area is older, and there aren't many children}
I'm just wondering if you guys have any ideas? Not expecting a specific answer here, just some thoughts. =)
Thanks for reading.
