Painting with flour!
Today was a bit of a light bulb moment - as I realised how far we have come on the Home Eding road. Today number 2 son (8 months old) found a bag of flour, decided to tip it on the floor and sit in it. Now if number 1 son (now nearly 7 years old) had done this when he was the same age, I would have thrown a wobbly, picked him up, cleaned him down, tidied away and got myself all worked up into a state (which would have upset my son as well)
Being 6 years down the line, I just wandered past him, sat down with him and drew swirly patterns on the kitchen floor in the flour, then got up and left him to play with it. When number 1 son returned home from his Martial Arts class, he promptly joined in by getting some more flour out and some sea salt and making a great wall of china on the floor.
I think that the reality of HE for me is that we are all learning what life is about, how to live with each other and ourselves, and learning all about the world. I dont know where DS1 learnt about the Great Wall of China, but he obviously has at some point - and DS2 is busy learning how to make pictures with his hands.
I can get the hoover out later and clean the mess up, so why worry, the boys are happy, I am not stressing and a good time was had by all.
Maire Said on May 22nd, 2009 at 8:04 am quote
Love this, almost makes me nostagic for baby days.
Sarah Said on May 22nd, 2009 at 2:29 pm quote
Lovely, and I need these reminders as I Home Ed too.
Carlotta Said on May 28th, 2009 at 7:24 pm quote
Wow…yes, I have changed my parenting style SOOOOO vastly, from first to second child. I only really understood what it was all about when I walked into an LLL meeting when DS1 was about 14 months old and saw a load of other mums all feeding older toddlers. It was a revelatory and wonderful moment for me….actually seeing adults caring for and listening to children!!
Raquel Said on June 6th, 2009 at 10:28 am quote
Don’t hoover up flour..it’s explosive
That was one thing we learnt when my youngest tipped out a bag of flour. The hoover started sparking so I turned the thing off and googled and found out I had better sweep it up instead! 