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zurück August '03: --9.8. I had taken my website offline for a while, because I wasn't sure if I liked it anymore, and it seemed too much work to up-date it frequently. But I decided to put it back on the net again. :-) It's a good way for me to express my thoughts and also to keep up my research and remind me of what I want for Ayla and myself. I don't know how often I will manage to up-date it, but I'll try. It's so hot here in Germany...everything is dry, the plants are dying, the soil is dust, and we are waiting for some rain. During the day I don't feel like doing much - don't want to move, or I start sweating. :-) I changed my running time to early in the morning or late in the evening. Otherwise I can't do it (would faint, I reckon ;-) I bought a 'jogger' pushchair last week. :-))))) Pretty smart thing, really! *g* And I tried it out this morning. Ayla likes it, too. It's so useful for me to have it - I don't have to rely on my mom to babysit, if I want to go running, and when I'm travelling (with my van) I can still exercise and train. Cool, eh? I'm still thinking about that Playgroup thing - if Ayla should go or not, and if it is important at all. I came to the conclusion, that it isn't important at all. Watching her play outside, happy to be able to run around and water the garden with her blue elefant-thing, play with the hose (spelling??), go for walks, discover nature and feel free seems much more fulfilling to me than going to a playgroup, just for the sake of it. I know now why I felt so uneasy about the whole idea that I kept thinking about it: why should it be necessary for a child to learn (that's what everyone says) that other kids are taking the toys away from you, that they steal your food, that they hit or pinch you, etc? I have heard from an online-mate recently that children in the first two to three years don't play with each other but beside each other. They aknowledge each other, but they don't actually engage in roleplay, etc. as they do later on. For them the important thing is to DISCOVER. They try things out, watch things very carefully, sort and organize things and copy their rolemodels. I do think that it is important to now and again see other children, especially of different age, but I prefer now not to go to playgroups, sport groups or the like. And it's silly to believe that kids learn social behaviour when they are in a group with other children. They learn social behaviour from their rolemodels (parents, siblings, grandparents, etc.) in everyday life. I don't want Ayla to copy antisocial behaviour from the other kids, like hitting, biting, etc. and think that it is normal. (don't get me wrong: I don't mean that all the other kids do that. But I got to meet quite a few). Right, point made. ;-) Ayla is running around naked most of the time these days. :-) Wish I could do that. And she's discovered that jumping on the bed, or walking and climbing on Mummy (when she lies down) is FUUUUUUUNNNNNN ! *gg* |
