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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 662998" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>This is not our son. We kind of are his 'adult friends.' He and his older sister spend about one weekend and couple weekdays a month in our house. Informally we also tend to look for outings that they would enjoy and if we notice something, we may call their mom, if us taking one or both of them to that outing would be convenient to them. So usually we do see them almost weekly. </p><p></p><p>While respite agreement is in place to help their mother to cope (care of severe special need sibling is really hard both physically and mentally. That child has respite care in institutional setting 7 days a month) we were matched with these kids also because our own kids are already adults and we can provide lots of one-on-one attention to kids. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>With Boyo we were asked to provide lots of male bonding time and husband has also tried to work with some of Boyo's gross motor issues. Husband is sporty, but Boyo is not interested at all. But working through Boyo's special interests have given lots of headway that they have not been able to make with Occupational Therapist (OT) or PT. For example Boyo tends to hate almost any kind of physical activity and starts to complain after very short walks. But on the bird trips he happily walks long distances even through rough terrain (and hubby consciously chooses varying terrains so that he will always have new challenges to his motor skills.) </p><p></p><p>His Occupational Therapist (OT) and PT also strongly recommended riding bike for balance, but he wouldn't train for long and complained how he would never end. Hubby started to talk about this small bird lake that one can get only with bike. Took him only couple months to train his bike riding to be so good, they could go. And now we were even able to take training wheels out last week!</p><p></p><p>Also new foods are best to be presented as part of packed lunch for bird trips...</p><p></p><p>Maybe sneaky, but it works.</p><p></p><p>These bird trips are between hubby and Boyo. With Ache (my oldest, adult son and reason I'm here) teaching them bird songs leaving sister out of it wasn't a viable option though. We were on the boat and it was raining. Tight space and just trying to come up with something to keep kids occupied didn't leave much possibilities. Especially when it was spontaneous thing Ache came up after Boyo asked him how he could know which bird it had been when they only saw it from distance and without binoculars. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for the idea. I will check the site.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 662998, member: 14557"] This is not our son. We kind of are his 'adult friends.' He and his older sister spend about one weekend and couple weekdays a month in our house. Informally we also tend to look for outings that they would enjoy and if we notice something, we may call their mom, if us taking one or both of them to that outing would be convenient to them. So usually we do see them almost weekly. While respite agreement is in place to help their mother to cope (care of severe special need sibling is really hard both physically and mentally. That child has respite care in institutional setting 7 days a month) we were matched with these kids also because our own kids are already adults and we can provide lots of one-on-one attention to kids. With Boyo we were asked to provide lots of male bonding time and husband has also tried to work with some of Boyo's gross motor issues. Husband is sporty, but Boyo is not interested at all. But working through Boyo's special interests have given lots of headway that they have not been able to make with Occupational Therapist (OT) or PT. For example Boyo tends to hate almost any kind of physical activity and starts to complain after very short walks. But on the bird trips he happily walks long distances even through rough terrain (and hubby consciously chooses varying terrains so that he will always have new challenges to his motor skills.) His Occupational Therapist (OT) and PT also strongly recommended riding bike for balance, but he wouldn't train for long and complained how he would never end. Hubby started to talk about this small bird lake that one can get only with bike. Took him only couple months to train his bike riding to be so good, they could go. And now we were even able to take training wheels out last week! Also new foods are best to be presented as part of packed lunch for bird trips... Maybe sneaky, but it works. These bird trips are between hubby and Boyo. With Ache (my oldest, adult son and reason I'm here) teaching them bird songs leaving sister out of it wasn't a viable option though. We were on the boat and it was raining. Tight space and just trying to come up with something to keep kids occupied didn't leave much possibilities. Especially when it was spontaneous thing Ache came up after Boyo asked him how he could know which bird it had been when they only saw it from distance and without binoculars. Thanks for the idea. I will check the site. [/QUOTE]
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