Add to the long list of woes of any Not First-Born Child: your parents not being arsed enough to read to you. About ten months ago I noticed we were not reading much to Cormac so I put together a basket of books and placed it in an area where we congregate to remind us to read to him. The book basket used to be refreshed weekly but now has to be refreshed daily such is the rate at which we get through the books with him and bore ourselves to death with all the repeat readings. Everyone has come to hate that basket of books, except Cormac. There isn’t a moment of peace when you sit down there.
We used to have dried soup mix in the sensorial tub but Cormac threw it all over the place and we now have crops of beans springing up in our gardens. I am predicting the next season’s crop will be sorghum.
My mother, who is an artist, will tell you that too much colour mixing and the murky paint that eventuates frustrates children and is a sign that you are not being attentive enough during their art-play. Guilty as charged.
On this particular afternoon Lauca was inspired to run a Montessori class for Cormac. It was quite darling. She was very patient and attentive (she would never have let the paints get all murky in an art-play activity, for instance). And having this private Montessori tuition for Cormac in the home I thought, gosh those preschool fees for Lauca are paying off now.
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I say if you don’t like murky paints you’d better learn not to mix them. I am tight about how many colours I provide at a time though, to stretch out the time between requests new paint. I have been known to include sparkly paint as one of the three colours in the allocation – it doesn’t change the colour of the others, it’s clear with silver glitter. I may also, on days where I’m feeling somewhat interested in the results, insist on all cool or all warm tones and refuse requests to mix them.
At family gatherings I reap the rewards of my older neice & nephew and their Montessorous education, and I didn’t even have to pay for it.