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azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 04:44 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 04:44 pm
Strictness, learning
I sound like I come down pretty hard on Little Fayoumis.
Probably I do.
On the other hand, he behaves very well for me, and when he does well, I reward him accordingly. I hold him to the rules, and I have a near-omniscient way of knowing when he's done something he ought not to.
I'm striving for fairness. I'm not the most playful or fun of his parent/guardians, but he loves me all the same, and he sits right up and learns for me, quite a bit due to the fact that I keep him on task when doing stuff, and I focus on him learning, not on how much he's squiggling (because he does, when he's thinking). It's a trade-off. I don't play with him much, so he treasures the focused attention he does get when he works on his homework with me. He doesn't get rewarded for going off-task.
I expect him to be smart, and very well-behaved. For a kid his age, in my presence, he is.
I think we need to add a lot more interesting words to the conversation around here, to add the words he's going to need to survive in my family and other places he may want to go to his vocabulary while he's young.
Probably I do.
On the other hand, he behaves very well for me, and when he does well, I reward him accordingly. I hold him to the rules, and I have a near-omniscient way of knowing when he's done something he ought not to.
I'm striving for fairness. I'm not the most playful or fun of his parent/guardians, but he loves me all the same, and he sits right up and learns for me, quite a bit due to the fact that I keep him on task when doing stuff, and I focus on him learning, not on how much he's squiggling (because he does, when he's thinking). It's a trade-off. I don't play with him much, so he treasures the focused attention he does get when he works on his homework with me. He doesn't get rewarded for going off-task.
I expect him to be smart, and very well-behaved. For a kid his age, in my presence, he is.
I think we need to add a lot more interesting words to the conversation around here, to add the words he's going to need to survive in my family and other places he may want to go to his vocabulary while he's young.