Some things are more precious than gold bullion and I realize this is why the munchkin’s behavior frustrates me so much at times. It’s because here I am trying to teach him to be conscientious not only of others but his own safety and he continues to do things which put him in danger.
He’s at least getting better about holding hands as we go through the parking lot at places like the grocery store and the mall, but a lot of the time he wants to be a “big boy” and walk by himself and then blithely steps out practically in front of traffic. There’s been at least once instance of me twisting my ankle pulling him out of the way.
One of the current things we’re working on by both his pediatrician’s suggestion and the school systems is that he needs to know not just his first name but his last name, mine and my husband’s name and his phone number, possibly his street address too, but I’m doing them slowly, this past week we’ve been working on him knowing his first and last name, then I’m going to through the phone number into the mix later on after I know he’s got his full name on.
He seems to have picked up the last name thing pretty quickly although yesterday when we were coming back from the bank we had a long discussion about whether or not our room mates and his two friends had the same last name as we did and why not. He seems to have gotten that it’s a family thing for the most part, but therefore doesn’t understand why his Gran (my Mum) doesn’t have the same last name.
