A few weeks ago, we switched our hsing style-well,actually we didn't really have a style,and now we do!! LOL!!!
Before, I let dd guide her way through the day,so everyday was different ,with a few routine components-like I read to them or showered while they had their breakfast.......we would walk our puppy......feed them lunch when it was around noon-1(ish!)-clean up the house before dh got home. When we yanked the tv awhile back,we went back to listening to music a good deal of the day. Ds would do whatever dd was doing or I was doing......
Now, we have adopted a routine and a style that is mommy led-for the most part. The difference is that I now have dd at the kitchen table doing various academic subjects(we recently switched to TWTM)-she chooses what order she wants to do them, and jump-ropes inbetween every subject-or dances.
Ds (surprisingly enough) is the one that is having a more difficult time adjusting to our new routine. He likes the jump-roping and dancing parts, but other than that,he is constantly trying to divert our attention, by doing things he knows he's not supposed to be doing,or just constantly asking to nurse,or whining,or trying to take away dd's work-or worse mark on it(she gets sooooo mad if he touches her work).
I've nursed him on demand, read to him while dd doesn't need my help, set up trainset next to our table, brought out blocks,etc....he will not play by himself. We go to the park almost everyday.
Last night, we decided to put some things in a little box, that resembles dd's box.....his own coloring books,paper,crayons,pencils,scissors,2 puzzles, and some stickers. I put it up on a high shelf, and will only bring it out for those"table" times every morning.
Any other suggestions,or even things to add to his box,ANYTHING????
mp
Before, I let dd guide her way through the day,so everyday was different ,with a few routine components-like I read to them or showered while they had their breakfast.......we would walk our puppy......feed them lunch when it was around noon-1(ish!)-clean up the house before dh got home. When we yanked the tv awhile back,we went back to listening to music a good deal of the day. Ds would do whatever dd was doing or I was doing......
Now, we have adopted a routine and a style that is mommy led-for the most part. The difference is that I now have dd at the kitchen table doing various academic subjects(we recently switched to TWTM)-she chooses what order she wants to do them, and jump-ropes inbetween every subject-or dances.
Ds (surprisingly enough) is the one that is having a more difficult time adjusting to our new routine. He likes the jump-roping and dancing parts, but other than that,he is constantly trying to divert our attention, by doing things he knows he's not supposed to be doing,or just constantly asking to nurse,or whining,or trying to take away dd's work-or worse mark on it(she gets sooooo mad if he touches her work).
I've nursed him on demand, read to him while dd doesn't need my help, set up trainset next to our table, brought out blocks,etc....he will not play by himself. We go to the park almost everyday.
Last night, we decided to put some things in a little box, that resembles dd's box.....his own coloring books,paper,crayons,pencils,scissors,2 puzzles, and some stickers. I put it up on a high shelf, and will only bring it out for those"table" times every morning.
Any other suggestions,or even things to add to his box,ANYTHING????
mp