Look at his focus, how he gets drawn into what he is doing! I find myself doing this when I'm creating and it can be hard not getting frustrated when others want to distract me from it. I love that you're encouraging, rather than diverting him from this path. I'm suddenly reminded of when I was at nursery school and for the first time ever I was able to use the little pegs and board to create pictures. I was so engrossed, I didn't hear the call to pack away for story time and was upset by the others trying to take it from me. Then the teacher's hands reached over my shoulder to take it and I slapped her before realising who it was. I was put in the naughty chair and excluded from storytime, my favourite time of the day. I was quite distraught and rather confused.
I remember both of my daughters would get some numbers and letters back to front. I was told this is quite common early on for most children. I guess how much they reverse varies from child to child. Whole words in reverse is probably less common, but I dont think we should ever make judgements at such an early age, so I'm glad you aren't worried. I sometimes even wonder if we all have levels of dyslexia. After all, there is the fact that we can read so many words with the letters jumbled up as long as the first and last letters are the same.
@minismallholding on behalf of HomeEdders
Yes the focus is there for sure. But it doesn't tend to last too long before there is something else he wants to do. Which is fine! In time I believe he will learn to extend this focus into larger projects.
Sorry to hear your school experience story. I think many of us have them. When I first met Sabrina she told me she wasn't creative and refused to join me in creating things. Upon investigation, it turned out this was because a teacher had told her she was not creative many moons ago. She was barely even conscious of it. Yet it had changed such a big part of her life. Once she was able to identify where the feeling was coming from she immediately learned macramé and made me a beautiful anklet, which i still wear today ;)
And now there is no stopping her creativity!
Thanks for the reassurance on the dyslexia. A few parents have pointed out to me now their children were the same. It was the backwards word which interested me the most, though I think he was probably just playing ;)
Four days I've been back and I am still buzzing like you wouldn't believe. It is like living in this perfect dream. Only fully appreciated after all this time away.
What adults casually say to children has much more impact than they realise. It stays with them. My sister was told not to bother doing her art exam, because the teacher decided she wasn't good enough. She always drew lightly because she want confident enough with her work to do bolder strokes. What she did was beautiful, but he convinced her that she was no good.
Glad Sabrina had found her creative side.
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