Tonight at around 10pm we were playing a game which E started. This game consisted of a ball of yarn being tossed back and forth with the tosser ‘naming’ his toss (i.e. “this is my ‘super’ toss). Game starts out in my office with E jumping on the large chair* and me sitting in my computer chair. The game eventually travels down the hall and into his bedroom. Again, he is jumping while tossing, but this time on his bed and I am standing opposite him in the middle of the room. This is an hour later by the way!
Michele: “I am running out of tosses. I think I am going to have to call it quits.”
Elijah: “Quit! I’ve got a 1001 tosses in my head.”
M: “Yeah, well, you are young and have an infinite imagination. I am older and do not…as people age, they often lose their imaginations. Thankfully, we can have children and reclaim some of it.”
E: “Oh…maybe you should try having a few more children!”
M: “Maybe I should”
E: “Yeah, like a 1001 so that you never run out of tosses”
I wonder how the hubby would feel about 1001 kidlets!?!?
* Elijah informed me that jumping is how he thinks. I find this interesting, because I remember having a friend who used to have me drill her on things before a test in high school with her jumping on the trampoline, otherwise she wouldn’t remember as much for the tests. E is definately a mover and a shaker, not one to stay still for very long at all. I’m glad that he isn’t going to school or I’m sure he’d be the ‘problem child’ and be labeled with all kinds of ‘learning disabilities’, because moving helps him think and moving in school is shall we say, not allowed.
I find it easier to think when I am moving. I don’t know if that is related to my Dyspraxia.
Comment by Matthew C — December 16, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Matthew ~ that is very possible. There are many diagnosed labels that we are given or give ourselves that would explain why we like to move! I’m not trying to down play your Dyspraxia, I am only saying that I think many of us function better when moving, regardless of whether or not we have a predisposition to be movers or a condition that compels us to move more than the ‘average’ person.
Comment by michele james-parham — December 17, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Learning disability labels are very negative. They emphasise what the children have difficulty with.
Yet so often those with learning difficulties are gifted in other ways.
In my experience people with Dyslexia are often very skilled at practical talents and are often very socially skillful. On the opposite side, I think Dyspraxics, while often not so skillful at some of the practical things that Dyslexics so often do well, have a remarkable ability to think creatively and to see life in ways other people don’t.
Comment by Matthew C — December 17, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
True…we ALL have strengths/weaknesses, so in some effect, we are ALL disabled and gifted
Comment by michele james-parham — December 18, 2008 @ 12:29 am