Jan. 31, 2006 - ...and not quite getting it |
I recently pulled out a box of books that
my mom had sent to me, books from when we were kids. The
"Let's talk about...." series of books. E really enjoys reading
them, and I find him lost in his room with the stack all around
him.
Last night at bedtime he asked me to read "Let's talk about
interrupting", while I was reading a book to DS22mo. (we were
taking turns). I reminded him that he was interrupting me.
I started reading again, and he raised his hand and said "excuse me,
can we read 'interrupting'?" OK, he's getting closer. I
said yes, and then in the remaining short toddler book that I was
reading, he interrupted me 4 more times to tell me something about the
book we were going to read. 
At least it was a teachable moment!
These books are great for him, because they are so direct about social
skills that he doesn't really get. They lay it out--what the
problem is, and what you should do instead. There's a little too
much of an emphasis on "don't do it because you don't want others to do
it to you," but it's slight, and it didn't bother DH at all.
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