My daughter did two things recently I thought worthy of their own post.
My wife prepared a special snack for our daughter on a day after-school activities would have her at school longer than normal. Apples with honey, some raisins, and crackers. After school, my wife asked how she enjoyed her treat. She replied: "I ate the raisins and crackers but I threw the apples on the ground. I didn't like them." My wife told our daughter that it hurt her feelings that she would just throw on the ground something she had made special for her. A few minutes later, unprompted, with spelling only a five-year-old learning how to spell can do, was an apology: "I am sorry for throwing apple".
The second item had me very impressed. It's Sunday afternoon and my daughter asks if I would like to play a game she made up. I'm hesitant, but having recently resolved to say "yes" as much as possible, I agreed and asked how we played. Her prior attempts at inventing games gave us "Hide and go Statue Seek" which involves one person (me) hiding somewhere standing like a statue then chasing person who finds him (her) and some game she never could quite explain how to play that seemed to involve yelling out the name of an animal while running in a circle. This game, however, was quite impressive.
During the week, after school, she disappeared into her room with paper, scissors and crayons, emerging several minutes later with her game. Placing her stuffed animals on the paper, she traced their outline, then cut out the shapes. She then colored the shapes the same colors/designs as her animals, in some cases using the same words written across their chests. The object of the game was for me to match each animal to their paper cutout. I only missed one. I was very impressed. I'll have to let her design the next game for the iPad!
My wife prepared a special snack for our daughter on a day after-school activities would have her at school longer than normal. Apples with honey, some raisins, and crackers. After school, my wife asked how she enjoyed her treat. She replied: "I ate the raisins and crackers but I threw the apples on the ground. I didn't like them." My wife told our daughter that it hurt her feelings that she would just throw on the ground something she had made special for her. A few minutes later, unprompted, with spelling only a five-year-old learning how to spell can do, was an apology: "I am sorry for throwing apple".
The second item had me very impressed. It's Sunday afternoon and my daughter asks if I would like to play a game she made up. I'm hesitant, but having recently resolved to say "yes" as much as possible, I agreed and asked how we played. Her prior attempts at inventing games gave us "Hide and go Statue Seek" which involves one person (me) hiding somewhere standing like a statue then chasing person who finds him (her) and some game she never could quite explain how to play that seemed to involve yelling out the name of an animal while running in a circle. This game, however, was quite impressive.
During the week, after school, she disappeared into her room with paper, scissors and crayons, emerging several minutes later with her game. Placing her stuffed animals on the paper, she traced their outline, then cut out the shapes. She then colored the shapes the same colors/designs as her animals, in some cases using the same words written across their chests. The object of the game was for me to match each animal to their paper cutout. I only missed one. I was very impressed. I'll have to let her design the next game for the iPad!
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