One week since pre-school has ended.
Ben’s been home a week now and Peter’s named him “Tornado Turley”. I think it explains itself.
I’m really noticing how delayed his speech is and how hard he is trying to remember how to say things. He’s got very few verbs in his language. He obsesses about certain things and it can take up the whole day just to persuade him away from something. One of these things is believe it or not, counting and reading the alphabet. He can count up to 10 and knows his alphabet even though sometimes he forgets how to pronounce the letters.
I’m amazed at how he’s skipped simple language skills and gone towards reading. I’m just not sure how to bridge the gap just yet but I’m still looking for help and ideas on how to fix this.
Ben often fills in missing words by making sounds if he can’t remember how to pronounce something, “thhh”, “uhhhmm”, “chhhh”… He’s using more word approximations though and I’m hoping they will work into real words.
There’s a strike of city workers so Ben won’t be getting swimming lessons this year unless the city and union workers stop acting like children. I’m sick of hearing them say “All we want…” hello? these people are ruining peoples lives because they have no way to get child care and children are being forced to encounter festering garbage. Where are we? Toronto or a Third world city? These people are not endearing themselves to the general public.
I’m trying to find other ways to entertain my son this summer but it’s going to be hard with no structure to it. He craves that structure, already his sleep patterns are thrown off and it’s affecting his temperment in a negative way.
My recommendation try to keep a schedule close to what they are used to so that you will suffer less in the long run.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am
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