June 3, 2010

  • Incomplete Lessons

    Two kids - two lessons half learned....

    Incomplete Lesson #1:

    Chance has had the habit of believing that when he sees something, only he sees it.  For example, he might see a dog and he'll say, "I see a dog!" and if you say, "Oh I see it too" he'll get mad and say, "NO, YOU don't see it, I see it, you DON'T see it." 

    And so, last week Kenn, Shaeleigh and Chance were in the car and after one of these bits of confusion Kenn explains to Chance about eyes.  "You have eyes and you see things.  I have eyes too and I see things.  Shaeleigh has eyes too."  All seemed to go well.  Kenn relates this to me at dinner.  He is tickled that now Chance has started to say, "I have eyes and you have eyes and Shaeleigh has eyes."  Suddenly my morning makes sense.  I tell Kenn my story.  I was driving Chance to daycare after dropping Shaeleigh at school.  We see a bus.  Chance says, "I see a big bus!"  I say, "Me too!"  Chance says, "NO.  I have eyes, Daddy has eyes, Shaeleigh has eyes.  YOU DON'T HAVE EYES!"

    Hm... 

    Incomplete Lesson Number #2:

    Perhaps Shaeleigh's Kindergarten teacher felt that at 6 you were beyond the need to be quite as specific?

    Shaeleigh and I were drawing Christmas trees and she put an angel on the top of hers.  She says to me (obviously repeating back a recent lesson).  "We think of angels as having bodies but they don't.  No bodies....  Just heads."

    hahaha