Another week testing our patience. The productivity levels went lower as he procrastinated on the development of a story and the painting to go with it. However, the fun part was learning woodworking and creating a birdhouse. The feeling of creating something with your own hands needs to be experienced and this was a great exercise.
The Easter holidays ensured that his friends were around and so that was distracting. One of the things we decided to do was to not take away that time and gave him some extra leeway. It is agonizing to decide how much is enough given that this decision has to be made by us (in the absence of the comfort of school's diktats around holiday homework and the comfort that they will make it up somewhere).
So far, it has been an agonizing journey, taking some decisions that were taken by the system! But I guess it is difficult to break away from the routine, as we are scared to face precisely this kind of dilemmas.We try to do our best given our limited information and experience, but will see it evolve.
The Easter holidays ensured that his friends were around and so that was distracting. One of the things we decided to do was to not take away that time and gave him some extra leeway. It is agonizing to decide how much is enough given that this decision has to be made by us (in the absence of the comfort of school's diktats around holiday homework and the comfort that they will make it up somewhere).
So far, it has been an agonizing journey, taking some decisions that were taken by the system! But I guess it is difficult to break away from the routine, as we are scared to face precisely this kind of dilemmas.We try to do our best given our limited information and experience, but will see it evolve.
I am trying to visualize
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