Comments for Attract Mode

Comment on I am irritated at the lack of … by Annabelle

Annabelle — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:58:39 +0000

You can have it back if you want too. I’m not enjoying having a cold, wet winter.

Comment on Robin can draw a five-pointed … by Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:14:41 +0000

I saw him doing that on Saturday, on his chalkboard. I didn’t realize it was new.

Comment on The question now is: do I teac… by Cat

Cat — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:43:43 +0000

I’d vote for ‘learn to purl in the normal manner’ only because it makes learning other stitch patterns [right & left twist for example] simpler if you knit & purl the way they expect.

Comment on OK. Anybody who reads this via RSS, spea… by Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:58:25 +0000

Hey! You changed things around here.

Comment on by Chrysoula

Chrysoula — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:02:04 +0000

Here’s a test reply. How does that work?

Comment on Whatchmacallit by Annabelle

Annabelle — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:37:31 +0000

Once I wrote with all these details. Then I started working with non-verbal children and my language paradigm changed. All my sentences became very short. Very concise.
“Take it.” “Let go.” “You are done.”
How much of language is necessary?

Don’t be discouraged Sister-love. If you are attached to details and have a hard time writing novels, go for short stories! (Detail-loaded and much shorter that 50,000 words.)

maybe you’ve been trying to write in the wrong area … tried poetry? It is all about images in the moment. (Well, some of it is.)

Comment on Enthusiasm by Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:34:56 +0000

Happy happy birthday, Robin!

Comment on Growing season by Chrysoula

Chrysoula — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:16:47 +0000

It really does seem like he’s been spending his character points on a lot of invisible internal stuff, opposed to the external things other children choose. I’m really happy I’m finally seeing signs of his growth though!

Comment on Growing season by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:52:54 +0000

Yesterday he set down a ball and then chalked the sunbeams/petals/hair around the ball. It was cute, but it also made it clear that he’s drawing SOMETHING. I’m pretty sure it’s petals at this point.

Although describing his drawings as ‘hairy balls’ will never get old.

Comment on Growing season by Dan Snyder

Dan Snyder — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:25:10 +0000

I’m glad to see you’re over the milestone anxiety.

The counting thing actually sounds pretty advanced for his age (or definitely within the huge range doctors call “normal”). Ian (who is almost 2 and a half) learned a curious little song from his parents long (to him) ago. It goes, “one two three four five six seven eight nine ten.” It’s all in a monotone – boring song, actually, but being a verbal child he would say it to himself or sing along with us from time to time.

Much later, he learned the concepts of “one” and “two” as they relate to a quantity of objects. He’s recently generalized to “three.” It’s hard to tell if he understands “more than” and “fewer than” as it realtes to numbers higher than three.

I guess my point is that the ability to sing that little song is divorced from understanding what those words mean. If Robin knows when he has two cars versus one, he’s doing fine .

Colors as well sounds right on schedule, if not ahead. Cat was worried that Ian might be color blind until a few months ago. He knew how to pronounce the words for many colors, and he knew that it was appropriate to use these words to describe objects. And there his understanding ended. It was actually kind of amusing to see which color word he’d use on an object (but only because he’s our second child so we weren’t really stressing over it). We figured he was trying out the words and that it was our job to correct him.

Recognizing and attempting to write letters at that age is amazing. You can definitely stop fretting .