Child development logs: Linnea
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ailbheLinnea age 6 years 4 months
Shoe size 12G
Height 117cm
Weight unknown
Self-care at home:
Eating: She can make hot drinks from the flask (not kettle) of hot water - tea, hot chocolate, etc. She can make toast, sandwiches, prep a bowl of cereal, spread things on bread or toast, slice cucumber or tomatoes for sandwiches, open packets of things, and so on. She has used the microwave under supervision (to make jelly) but isn't comfortable with it. She uses cutlery competently when she wants to and doesn't spill on her clothes or the tabletop under normal circumstances. She's unpleasantly prone to filling her mouth too full.
Dressing: She can dress and undress herself but has trouble starting zippers. Socks with different coloured heels have made a huge difference. She can't do shoelaces, or fastenings behind her back.
Toileting: She's back to bedwetting - only sleeping in a state of heightened alertness seems to eliminate that, and that leads to tiredness and that leads to crankiness. But she's good about putting her own bedding in the washing machine most of the time. And daytime toileting is usually fine, with occasional waiting-too-long accidents if there's something really exciting going on. When we're out she uses department store or café toilets all by herself, I stay where I am and wait for her to find the room, queue, and use the loo. She also washes her hands, as far as I can tell (I check for temperature and soap-smell).
Washing: She can wash herself except for rinsing her hair, but often messes about and ends up being washed by an adult because we're patient and forbearing like that. She has also more or less stopped brushing her teeth effectively and needs a grownup to do almost all of it. And she is frankly rubbish at brushing her hair. This is all stuff she has done competently in the past, so I don't know why the problem now. I'm sure she'll sort it out again later.
Helping at home: She can (but often doesn't want to) help chop and peel, stir, pour, knead, mix, etc. She can lay and clear the table. She can fill the dishwasher but not empty it (things live too high). She helps strip her own bed and carries the bedlinen down and puts it in the washing machine. She fetches nappy wraps and wipes from the drying rack and leaves them in the bathroom for me to put away, when I ask her. She is pretty good at putting stuff away when she wants to. She can and does make ME tea and toast, or fetch me drinks of water. I LOVE THIS.
Playing at home: Role play, doing Homework (workbooks), Lego, phonics websites, dashing about in the garden, drawing and painting, cutting things out, lots of games with Emer as a participant rather than a minion, it's all good.
Playing outside the home: No idea. She likes playing with other children but I haven't the foggiest what she does. She runs about a lot.
Listening and talking: She is often in her own private universe and doesn't hear what I say. But when she's listening she takes everything in; I just can't always tell when that is. She speaks perfectly clearly when she wants to but sometimes mumbles at great speed instead. I am considering teaching her to recite, or something.
Reading and writing: She's actively engaged in learning to read now, openly so, and has written me a few short cards. She is using the handwriting practice workbook I got her ages ago. She reads to other children, but I have no idea how much is reading and how much is making up her own stories.
Drawing and making: It never stops and some of it is really, really good. Help help we are drowning in artworks. She's not an artistic prodigy but she's not half bad, truly.
Counting and manipulating numbers: She isn't all that interested any more. No idea why. No doubt it will become interesting again one day.
Sleep: Night night at bedtime, wake up in the morning. Her natural times seem to be 10pm-10am ish.
Social: She's becoming more socially aware in all sorts of ways - she can consider other people, anticipate someone's preferences, share, etc. She has lots of friends and seems to make friends very easily. She's also naive in many ways, is bewildered when she makes social errors, and can't understand why some people don't want to be her friend or do what she wants to do or similar. She's getting more accustomed to large groups playing together but I don't know how much she likes it.
After social time she needs complete isolation, without anyone in the same room, for AGES, just to recover.
Swimming lessons: She finished her first level in a term and has just started her second level. She's great at swimming underwater, but not so hot if she wants to keep her face out. She loves it and her swimming teacher last term was very pleased with her.
Formal manners: Please, thank you, apologies, all that. She can do them, but decides for herself when she will and for whom. It hasn't landed me in serious trouble yet. I'm staying out of it, except for occasional reminders.
Technology: She's able to use the TV and DVD remote controls, and is completely at home with the laptop and all the children's websites she has access to. She's not hugely competent with the microscope yet.
Other stuff: Lego, Geomag, construction toys - all very popular. She seems to have grasped the days of the week. She loves having a baby sister but finds boring work boring. She is involving me MUCH more in her inner life and I'm finding it exciting and somewhat tiring. She is dealing with the idea of death very gradually. She can't grasp the concept of slavery yet. She seems pretty clear on human reproduction including artificial insemination but can't get to grips with IVF. Most of the rest of the biology we've covered seems to have been pretty straightforward but ears and soundwaves are complicated, apparently.
She loves travel and really, really wants to go to Scotland to see the power station inside a mountain.
Shoe size 12G
Height 117cm
Weight unknown
Self-care at home:
Eating: She can make hot drinks from the flask (not kettle) of hot water - tea, hot chocolate, etc. She can make toast, sandwiches, prep a bowl of cereal, spread things on bread or toast, slice cucumber or tomatoes for sandwiches, open packets of things, and so on. She has used the microwave under supervision (to make jelly) but isn't comfortable with it. She uses cutlery competently when she wants to and doesn't spill on her clothes or the tabletop under normal circumstances. She's unpleasantly prone to filling her mouth too full.
Dressing: She can dress and undress herself but has trouble starting zippers. Socks with different coloured heels have made a huge difference. She can't do shoelaces, or fastenings behind her back.
Toileting: She's back to bedwetting - only sleeping in a state of heightened alertness seems to eliminate that, and that leads to tiredness and that leads to crankiness. But she's good about putting her own bedding in the washing machine most of the time. And daytime toileting is usually fine, with occasional waiting-too-long accidents if there's something really exciting going on. When we're out she uses department store or café toilets all by herself, I stay where I am and wait for her to find the room, queue, and use the loo. She also washes her hands, as far as I can tell (I check for temperature and soap-smell).
Washing: She can wash herself except for rinsing her hair, but often messes about and ends up being washed by an adult because we're patient and forbearing like that. She has also more or less stopped brushing her teeth effectively and needs a grownup to do almost all of it. And she is frankly rubbish at brushing her hair. This is all stuff she has done competently in the past, so I don't know why the problem now. I'm sure she'll sort it out again later.
Helping at home: She can (but often doesn't want to) help chop and peel, stir, pour, knead, mix, etc. She can lay and clear the table. She can fill the dishwasher but not empty it (things live too high). She helps strip her own bed and carries the bedlinen down and puts it in the washing machine. She fetches nappy wraps and wipes from the drying rack and leaves them in the bathroom for me to put away, when I ask her. She is pretty good at putting stuff away when she wants to. She can and does make ME tea and toast, or fetch me drinks of water. I LOVE THIS.
Playing at home: Role play, doing Homework (workbooks), Lego, phonics websites, dashing about in the garden, drawing and painting, cutting things out, lots of games with Emer as a participant rather than a minion, it's all good.
Playing outside the home: No idea. She likes playing with other children but I haven't the foggiest what she does. She runs about a lot.
Listening and talking: She is often in her own private universe and doesn't hear what I say. But when she's listening she takes everything in; I just can't always tell when that is. She speaks perfectly clearly when she wants to but sometimes mumbles at great speed instead. I am considering teaching her to recite, or something.
Reading and writing: She's actively engaged in learning to read now, openly so, and has written me a few short cards. She is using the handwriting practice workbook I got her ages ago. She reads to other children, but I have no idea how much is reading and how much is making up her own stories.
Drawing and making: It never stops and some of it is really, really good. Help help we are drowning in artworks. She's not an artistic prodigy but she's not half bad, truly.
Counting and manipulating numbers: She isn't all that interested any more. No idea why. No doubt it will become interesting again one day.
Sleep: Night night at bedtime, wake up in the morning. Her natural times seem to be 10pm-10am ish.
Social: She's becoming more socially aware in all sorts of ways - she can consider other people, anticipate someone's preferences, share, etc. She has lots of friends and seems to make friends very easily. She's also naive in many ways, is bewildered when she makes social errors, and can't understand why some people don't want to be her friend or do what she wants to do or similar. She's getting more accustomed to large groups playing together but I don't know how much she likes it.
After social time she needs complete isolation, without anyone in the same room, for AGES, just to recover.
Swimming lessons: She finished her first level in a term and has just started her second level. She's great at swimming underwater, but not so hot if she wants to keep her face out. She loves it and her swimming teacher last term was very pleased with her.
Formal manners: Please, thank you, apologies, all that. She can do them, but decides for herself when she will and for whom. It hasn't landed me in serious trouble yet. I'm staying out of it, except for occasional reminders.
Technology: She's able to use the TV and DVD remote controls, and is completely at home with the laptop and all the children's websites she has access to. She's not hugely competent with the microscope yet.
Other stuff: Lego, Geomag, construction toys - all very popular. She seems to have grasped the days of the week. She loves having a baby sister but finds boring work boring. She is involving me MUCH more in her inner life and I'm finding it exciting and somewhat tiring. She is dealing with the idea of death very gradually. She can't grasp the concept of slavery yet. She seems pretty clear on human reproduction including artificial insemination but can't get to grips with IVF. Most of the rest of the biology we've covered seems to have been pretty straightforward but ears and soundwaves are complicated, apparently.
She loves travel and really, really wants to go to Scotland to see the power station inside a mountain.
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Date: 2010-09-09 09:15 pm (UTC)