Simply at home

    Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. While each day we plan and try to take over or space in that most times when we work with kids or any other there is always an element of surprise. Lets call this the unexpected. we need to face it and work around it. So today my son happened to peep into the bag filled with vegetables bought for the week, tore apart the plastic expecting something else that he could munch. To his surprise it was small onions (not shallots) that fell off the plastic and was spilt all around. Since it was not what he wanted he moved on. Now, I had planned an activity entirely different for that day, I was sitting there observing all this, and a thought a spark, why not pause and convert this itself as an activity for the day? Normally the focus would be to get to the planned activity and think that as the goal and so on.  I would react or i would clean that space to move to that activity planned. Entire mood would go for a toss. now life is ...

 Story Telling Day 12 Today total disinterest in listening and hence nothing kept the visuals away and tried to tell story still no interest at all. Well we needed a break I Guess. ;)

 Story Telling Day 11 We had a friend come over to visit us and both of them enjoy each others company. AIM : To attempt picture pointing to the story as I tell the story. Achieved : Initially there was a bit of a resistance since he loved to play with uncle instead of story time. But went with the flow and we showcased our story together, I voiced over and he pointed the cards in the process and response to certain questions such as how crow makes sounds and how pebbles where dropped which is something we have achieved in the previous days of story telling.

 Story Telling Day 10 Traditional style of feeding and telling story to my son. Here irrespective of how old the child is we tel the story while feeding food to child. Here i used the visual of the book too. AIM : Full sitting tolerance till entire story and dinner is over and only listening. Achieved : Sitting and listening, and some gestures too when story was told. Full attention mode achived since it was also eating time.  

   Story Telling Day 9 Today continued with Little Ganesha Story book.  And continued to tell about the story.  Aim : To associate Mango in the story to observe the mango at home. Live object association. Achieved : The moment the Mango was showed in real time, interest to eat it came up and it was snack time with Mango.