Sunday, December 7, 2008

boy vs. legos~


well...this has been an eventful day...cleaned out my car...found some lost shoes, some lost sippy cups, some lost toys...and a month's worth of food (opened and closed)...

Fisher got in a fight with a lego set...and we tried to figure out how angry to let him be about a broken lego set...hmmm...he worked really hard to put it together...and in moving it somewhere it fell apart...but it was just a lego set, and he was really really upset about it's accidental destruction...but after further thought it became clear that the fact that it is made of lego's is not the point...though it makes it seem much more trivial...it is something he made and worked on for hours, and in one misjudged move it broke into pieces...I would be really upset if that were a cake that I had worked on....so processing the anger on his level made it much easier to "take seriously" and it became much more than just a tantrum over a lego airplane... it became a disappointed kid with a broken "accomplishment." so...We let him fume...and now the lego set lies half reassembled on the playroom floor...he says he will finish the rest tomorrow...

in the meantime, I am glad to have back all my sippy cups...they are in the wash!

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