Yesterday I met my little love at school for "LUNCH WITH SOMEONE "GRAND" DAY. Seeing as how I am GRAND I met him and first attended his school's book fair. Out of the blue he decided to start jumping around and acting quite silly. I reminded him that he has to watch out for other people…so of course he continued to keep jumping…what the heck, he was so happy I let him have at it and at the same time made sure he didn't stomp on someone in the process. All went well.
All of a sudden he turned to me and asked if he could run out into the street. I looked at him and said, "what do you have to do when crossing the street?" He stood there and said, "not this way turning to the left…not this way, turning to the right!" That's his way of saying no cars are coming. I asked him, "what do you always have to be?" His answer was, "SAFE!" There ya go I told him and we slapped each other five!!!!!! He turns to me and asks, "If I run out into the street will I be dead in my head?" OMG! DEAD IN HIS HEAD…where does he come up with this stuff.
How do you explain the dangers…how? Their thinking is so concrete…say something the wrong way and it can take forever to correct it. Sometimes they hear something once and it is forever locked into place. At that moment I just told him "NO BOO BOOS ALLOWED right?" He seems to get the concept of boo boos, so I went on to tell him that running into the road could cause BAD boo boos. He looked up at me with those beautiful brown eyes and said, "I WON'T DIE IN MY HEAD?" All I could do at that moment was HUG him, tell him I LOVE YOU…and no! You won't die in your head. Man oh man…they challenge you at every turn. You want them to understand yet you don't want to scare the hell out of them at the same time. We just watch him like a hawk.
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