Good Parenting Since February 2, 2009
Oh, and day two of me being a good parent went well. Another lovely dinner followed by an hour and a half of playing with our Quadrilla set, followed by our bedtime routine, followed by me working very hard at my computer. Very hard. I am putting a lot of thought into this blog entry. And any minute now I’ll go to bed start working on my extremely late JavaScript homework.
I’m not sure what activity we’ll do tomorrow night. Usually it would be gymnastics night but gymnastics hasn’t been going well as of late, so I’m letting my almost-six-year-old decide whether he wants to go. At first I was pissed about the money I spent, but then I remembered that, oh yeah, I only spent that money because I wanted him to do something fun and gymnastics is turning out to be more about following the rules and the routine than it is about fun, and it’s not really worth it to make him miserable (and the rest of his class miserable) just so that I can justify spending $200.
It’s kind of a quandary though. I want him to do extracurricular activities because I want him to do fun things to which he’s unlikely to be exposed at home, not because I want him to gain all this random knowledge, but it turns out that most parents are looking for the random knowledge gain and so it’s hard to find activities that are just about kids getting to have fun and explore the subject at hand instead of learning to be disciplined athletes/performers/etc. I’ll keep looking though.
But anyway, back to the what I was saying, I think we might do an art project tomorrow night if we don’t go to gymnastics. Maybe finger painting? I shudder at the thought of art project clean up but I’ll see what my box o’ (art) tricks has to offer.