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| Sunday, March 11, 2012 09:11 PM |
| Boy Stories |
 by Fëanor |
1. Twice today we found that recontextualizing helped us to convince Griffin to do what we wanted him to do. The first time, I was trying to get him away from the TV and into his play room. "Don't you want to go into your room and play?" I asked him. "NO!" he cried definitively. So then I said, "Are you sure? You've got a lot of great toys in there. You've got your cars. Don't you want to play with your cars?" His response was: "CARS! YEAH!" And he dashed off into the other room.
Later, after dinner, he came into the dining room carrying two stuffed animals and tried to get us to come with him into the living room and turn on his favorite TV show for him. "Don't you want to go play outside?" we asked him. "NO!" he yelled, again quite definitively. "But we could take your ball. Don't you want to play with your ball outside?" "YEAH!" he cried, threw his two stuffed animals aside with a dramatic movement of his arms, and ran off to get his ball.
Pretty awesome.
2. In the hallway upstairs we have a print of four or five sketches by Pablo Picasso of various animals, one of which is a dog. Often when I'm carrying Griffin past this print on the way back from his bath, he will point at this print and yell, "DOG!" He is very fond of pointing out dogs to us whenever he sees one, in case we haven't noticed it. Tonight, Griffin was refusing to go back to his room to get ready for his bath, so I ended up picking him up and hauling him to his room bodily. He was kicking and screaming and crying the whole way. Nevertheless, in the middle of all this, as we were passing the print, he made sure to point and yell, "DOG!" I laughed the whole rest of the way. |
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