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azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 04:28 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 04:28 pm
Afternoon
Little Fayoumis watched Spiderman, but did not get to play Playstation, as he did get the controller out without being watched. Not entirely his fault, because I should have been a little more specific, but not entirely my fault either. He's getting better about not getting on it without supervision, and I expect that by tomorrow, he'll be very, very, very careful. Even though he probably did do a good job of taking the controller out, I'm establishing precedent, and enforcing the idea that he MUST follow the rules or suffer the consequences.
He made his day at school, and got his homework done. He's taken to saying, "First Objective... completed!" upon finishing the first homework problem, and continuing to do so for all the other homework problems. Excellent! I approve of the vocabulary. SpyHunter is good for something after all.
Things he still needs to work on: the color name orange (it's a tricky one to sound out), the word "eighth", and distinguishing between the words black, blue, and brown. They're all color words, but he tends to see the letter B, know it's a color word, and take wild-assed guesses. So even if he guessed right, I make him read the word. He's getting so much better at reading!
He's prone to taking "shortcuts" when he reads, reading the first letters and the last letters and skipping the middle letters. Am trying to teach him how very bad a habit that is.
Explained the concept of PG-13 to him. He read it on the movie screen at the beginning of Spider-Man, and I told him that it stood for Parental Guidance, and meant that parents should make sure the movie was OK for kids to watch when the kids were under 13, because the kids might be scared or something. LF told me that he wasn't scared by that movie. I told him that he wasn't, which was why we let him watch it, but other, different, kids might be scared, because there are bad guys and buildings getting shot in the movie, and that could be scary.
He's learning.
Decided a nap was in order. Crashed out.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yaksha42 came by, and knocked loudly, waking me up. I got, as predictable, very shaky and uncertain, because that's how I get when woken out of a much-needed afternoon nap before I'm ready to wake up.
Went to the store to pick upvotania's prescriptions. There was an accident taking up most of the intersection, as Yakky had warned me, so traffic was hell.
He made his day at school, and got his homework done. He's taken to saying, "First Objective... completed!" upon finishing the first homework problem, and continuing to do so for all the other homework problems. Excellent! I approve of the vocabulary. SpyHunter is good for something after all.
Things he still needs to work on: the color name orange (it's a tricky one to sound out), the word "eighth", and distinguishing between the words black, blue, and brown. They're all color words, but he tends to see the letter B, know it's a color word, and take wild-assed guesses. So even if he guessed right, I make him read the word. He's getting so much better at reading!
He's prone to taking "shortcuts" when he reads, reading the first letters and the last letters and skipping the middle letters. Am trying to teach him how very bad a habit that is.
Explained the concept of PG-13 to him. He read it on the movie screen at the beginning of Spider-Man, and I told him that it stood for Parental Guidance, and meant that parents should make sure the movie was OK for kids to watch when the kids were under 13, because the kids might be scared or something. LF told me that he wasn't scared by that movie. I told him that he wasn't, which was why we let him watch it, but other, different, kids might be scared, because there are bad guys and buildings getting shot in the movie, and that could be scary.
He's learning.
Decided a nap was in order. Crashed out.
yaksha42 came by, and knocked loudly, waking me up. I got, as predictable, very shaky and uncertain, because that's how I get when woken out of a much-needed afternoon nap before I'm ready to wake up. Went to the store to pick up
votania's prescriptions. There was an accident taking up most of the intersection, as Yakky had warned me, so traffic was hell.