That is Cathy, 3 days before she turned 1 year old falling into one of our children's many toy boxes. I had been sitting surfing and taking happy snaps of our family, at play, after our evening meal. Cathy had just taken her first few steps that we were aware of. She staggered over to the box and then proceeded to fall in head first. That was the second time. The first time she managed to get herself out. This time it was Dad to the rescue!
Cathy is the serious one. She thinks about everything before she does it. Not so Michele. She is impetuous. She acts first and thinks after. It has made training Michele a nightmare and training Cathy a breeze. But together they will some day make an excellent team. We are working on working on training Michele in her God given impetuousness and Cathy in her thoughtfulness. If I were running a company I would want both working for me. Together they make an excellent team and, best of all, they get along very well together.
Life is getting better in our household has we make adjustments in how we parent. We went through the stage of just managing Michele to reacting to Michele and now we are actively training Michele and Cathy. We expect them to know nothing and to have to be taught everything. We started our training journey being reactive, whereas now we are proactive. We did pay a lot of attention to Michele and must have done something right along the way as people would come up to us and tell us how much they enjoyed seeing us out and about as a family and how happy we always looked. They didn't see the inner turmoil we often went through. That was before we read some of the Pearl's training material and changed doing what we did. The along came Cathy. She really turned things around. She has been breastfed all way along. Michele wasn't. Michele was in a pram a fair bit when we went out. Cathy has rarely been in a pram and has been what is known as an in arms baby. One other big change. When Cathy came along we were concerned that Michele would feel left out. We really didn't want that and so paid Michele a lot more attention that we might have otherwise done. It made all the difference to us as a family.
This last week we purchased the Rod and Staff preschool and kindergarten work books for Michele. No ,we are not intending to homeschooling. Rod and Staff really is an unfortunate name for education material. However they appear to be excellent books and Michele has already worked her way through the first of 4 work books. I might add that the four kindergarten books are supposed to be her entire school work for this year. Right! You have got to be kidding! We spoke with one or two folks and they said to let her work at her on pace. They also said they don't start at the level we have. No matter the age of the child, they go straight to first grade material. We wont. We will follow the curriculum and see what happens.
Should I outline my views on home schooling and all that stuff? No, not now. That is one for another post at another time.
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