MOMMY Entry #4: Hate for smoothies
My six-year old suddenly hates everything. What up with that? I thought we didn’t become cynical, negative human beings until we were teenagers. I thought I had at least six more years of loving life. Not so much. Today he hated smoothies, the park, paper mache, taking a shower, tying his shoes and walking for too long. I’m in the process of explaining to him the depth and meaning of the word hate but I don’t think it is sinking in. He’s still trying to figure out if there is an actual timeframe associated with the saying “in a while” and if “maybe” means yes or no. In other words, he’s still trying to conceptualize the meaning of words we use all the time. Of course he doesn’t get it. Today he told me that people on TV say “Ok, sooo I’ll take that as a yes” when a person doesn’t respond to a question. That’s what he said when he asked me for his fourth brownie and I didn’t answer right away. Oh, ok. He’s getting his vocabulary from TV. Need to limit that and all other forms of “machine entertainment.” On the other hand, his reading skills have gone up exponentially since he got Pokeman for his Gameboy and we refused to read the on-screen instructions and conversations.
