boredom
We spent today at the doctors' offices. Morning was mine and afternoon was D's. We have been nursing a cold all these weeks and guess it got to our ears and got us all dizzy/vertigo the last few nights. This is when I wish we had a family doctor instead of having to go to two different doctors!
But D loves doctor visits. She must love all the praise she gets from authority figures. So, she went prepared. She took a coloring book and coloring pens for morning appointment. Kept herself busy. I took a book but I really wasn't in the mood to read. D kept coming up to me and saying, "mommy, you are going to be bored! You should do something!" She thought I was being funny, that I liked watching people.
Now who taught my child the word, "bored"?? Please step up! :P Because that's all she talked about when it was her turn with her doctor. Here's a girl who can entertain herself in the carseat for hour or two straight with just one stuffed toy! Her doctor even set up this computer game, where the projector on the ceiling projects a screen on the floor and various short games are screened that require the kids to move about and pop balloons, watermelons, etc. Clearly, we can't let children get bored a little bit.
sigh. feel sorry for the fish, the real fish in the aquarium (that formed the wall between the sick visits and the well-checks because they no longer are an attraction anymore!
But my doc's office had magazines and books. Children books too!! And OMG D was reading!!!!! When did that happen??!! OK, not a surprise, we have seen her progress over time. It's been so much fun to watch her. With us she was pretending she couldn't read and needed me to read (which I didn't mind at all). And then she would correct me when i misread something/skipped a word!! And then give a guilty look. This was a month ago. Now she keeps telling us she can do it herself!
But D loves doctor visits. She must love all the praise she gets from authority figures. So, she went prepared. She took a coloring book and coloring pens for morning appointment. Kept herself busy. I took a book but I really wasn't in the mood to read. D kept coming up to me and saying, "mommy, you are going to be bored! You should do something!" She thought I was being funny, that I liked watching people.
Now who taught my child the word, "bored"?? Please step up! :P Because that's all she talked about when it was her turn with her doctor. Here's a girl who can entertain herself in the carseat for hour or two straight with just one stuffed toy! Her doctor even set up this computer game, where the projector on the ceiling projects a screen on the floor and various short games are screened that require the kids to move about and pop balloons, watermelons, etc. Clearly, we can't let children get bored a little bit.
sigh. feel sorry for the fish, the real fish in the aquarium (that formed the wall between the sick visits and the well-checks because they no longer are an attraction anymore!
But my doc's office had magazines and books. Children books too!! And OMG D was reading!!!!! When did that happen??!! OK, not a surprise, we have seen her progress over time. It's been so much fun to watch her. With us she was pretending she couldn't read and needed me to read (which I didn't mind at all). And then she would correct me when i misread something/skipped a word!! And then give a guilty look. This was a month ago. Now she keeps telling us she can do it herself!