Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
So lets be honest for a minute. One of the biggest things I have learned from being a mom is how much patience I don't have. There was a time when I considered myself to be a pretty patient person, but now that Izzy is a toddler, I realize that I'm really not as patient as I once thought. And even though we love doing activities and I think they are good for us both, sometimes they have a tendency of highlighting just how impatient I really am. Today's activity is one of those examples. For the activity, I had cut out a paper heart in every color we have talked about and taped them on the floor. My idea was to tell Izzy things like, "Jump on the yellow heart", or, "Stomp on the white heart" and in the perfect world I was imagining in my head, he would do as I asked and be super excited about his activity. But alas, that was only a dream and when it came right down to it all he wanted to do was rip the hearts off the floor. I was getting so frustrated trying to get him to do something with the hearts but he just wasn't interested. We even took a story and snack time break in hopes that he would be more interested when we returned to the activity, but he wasn't. We tried singing songs, having mama give crazy demonstrations, etc, but nothing. I even let him tear one of the hearts off the floor thinking that I could just let him tell me what color all of the hearts were as he ripped them up but once the first heart had been torn to shreds, he wasn't interested in that any more either. I finally did get him to identify the color of each heart once by bribing him with stickers, but lets just say that our last color review activity wasn't as amazing as I had hoped. So what can you learn from all of my impatience and frustration? Well maybe you can try this activity with your little one and everything will be peachy and rosy keen like I had hoped they would be for us. But if not, just don't feel alone in all your frustration. I'm feeling ya... especially today. But hey, at least I got one cute picture of our little heart battle. As I mentioned, this was our last color review activity. Tomorrow we will be moving on to number recognition which will hopefully go smoother than today. And as fun as colors have been, Izzy and I are both ready to move on with life. Cost: $5
Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
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AuthorHi! My name is Cassity and I am the mom to a little 2 year old boy named Izzy and a baby girl named Sydney. I am lucky enough to get to be a stay-at-home mom to them and we have fun thinking of new activities to do together in the afternoons. We created this blog as an opportunity to share those activities with you. Archives
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