The last few days Ellie has figured out her spoon a lot more. She is now often holding it perpendicular to her mouth, rather than parallel, so she can eat the food properly. She seems also to have figured out what the right way round for a spoon to be is. This morning she was holding a spoon in either hand, one the right way round, the other upside-down. She looked from one to the other a bit, then dropped the upside down one and picked it up right side up. Clever girl!
Online article I read today suggests praising children for effort is better than praising them for their cleverness. Apparently, if you praise a child for effort, they try harder, they like effort-- they'll attempt quite difficult things. If you tell them how clever they are, they'll stay away from anything that seems difficult-- that's not immediately solvable, for fear of jeapordising their clever status. Interesting. Seems like simplistic research, but the idea seems reasonable enough.
She got new shoes on the weekend. Little black girl shoes (I don't know what they're called, but if you think of little girl shoes, that's what they are.) Buckles and little sparkly diamonds. Very cute. She really likes them-- she wants to wear them all the time. They get in the way of crawling a bit, but they seem to help with standing. The physio suggested them to help with ankle support, to make standing easier-- because of her hyper-extensible joints.
She went to her early intervention session earlier this week. From next week she'll be going by herself. I'll drop her off and pick her up. My little girl is going to school! (Well, sort of-- enough for me to feel a little teary about it, anyway). Sometimes I look at her, and she seems so big, standing (holding on), self-confident, interested,-- a definite personality. Other times I look and she seems a tiny little baby.
I'm experimenting with changing her sleeping patterns-- to see if she can do with one longer nap in the afternoon, and will sleep a little later in the morning. So far everything's just gone to shit; there's no real pattern.
She's just waking up for lunch now.
Online article I read today suggests praising children for effort is better than praising them for their cleverness. Apparently, if you praise a child for effort, they try harder, they like effort-- they'll attempt quite difficult things. If you tell them how clever they are, they'll stay away from anything that seems difficult-- that's not immediately solvable, for fear of jeapordising their clever status. Interesting. Seems like simplistic research, but the idea seems reasonable enough.
She got new shoes on the weekend. Little black girl shoes (I don't know what they're called, but if you think of little girl shoes, that's what they are.) Buckles and little sparkly diamonds. Very cute. She really likes them-- she wants to wear them all the time. They get in the way of crawling a bit, but they seem to help with standing. The physio suggested them to help with ankle support, to make standing easier-- because of her hyper-extensible joints.
She went to her early intervention session earlier this week. From next week she'll be going by herself. I'll drop her off and pick her up. My little girl is going to school! (Well, sort of-- enough for me to feel a little teary about it, anyway). Sometimes I look at her, and she seems so big, standing (holding on), self-confident, interested,-- a definite personality. Other times I look and she seems a tiny little baby.
I'm experimenting with changing her sleeping patterns-- to see if she can do with one longer nap in the afternoon, and will sleep a little later in the morning. So far everything's just gone to shit; there's no real pattern.
She's just waking up for lunch now.
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