A few days ago I attended the monthly meeting of a support group for grandparents raising children and the topic of discussion was the discipline of children.
Now you might think that because one is a grandparent raising grandchildren that he and/or she knows everything there is to know about discipline and parenting.
You might also assume that because grandparents have already raised children and this is our second time around, we already know how to do the parenting thing.
Don’t cry Poppy, it’s just daycare!
The daycare sent home a note the other day announcing they were having a graduation ceremony for all the children that were promoting to pre-Kindergarten school next year.
What nonsense! Having a graduation ceremony for toddlers? Why, it’s just ridiculous!
Besides, in my profession in higher education we don’t take graduation ceremonies lightly. They are serious business.
But to have children that haven’t even been to school yet don the cap and gown is practically an insult to my profession!
At our house the toddlers have lots of books. Nanna always bought books and constantly read to them, even when they were infants. So they love books and I try to read to them often, but don’t do as good a job as Nanna did.
One thing that hinders me from reading to them as much as I should is technology. (Sure, Poppy, blame it on technology!)
But you can download children’s books to the iPad that are animated and read themselves! iPad books do a much better job than I ever could. In fact, the toddlers would rather watch We’re Going on a Bear Hunt from the iPad because it animates the artwork on the pages of the book. No matter how enthusiastically I may read the book to them, I can’t make the pictures start moving around!
This new sandbox is awesome!
Last week I built a new sandbox for the toddlers. It’s not really that big from a two-dimensional perspective–five feet by five feet.
But, I should have been thinking three dimensionally when I constructed it because it took 25 bags of sand to fill it up.
That’s 25-fifty pound bags of sand. 1,250 pounds of sand!
But it was worth the effort. The toddlers love it and spend hours playing in it.
For several weeks before I constructed the sandbox my left elbow was hurting. It became so painful that it kept me awake at night.
Poppy's New Adventure 