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Mrs.Post wrote: Videos of our 4 y/o using the worksheet we made for Skipping One Note. And the fridge magnets.

Sonya,
I think that you have real gift in teaching kids anything!
I LOVE the idea to show your son the sequence and let him to figure out how the skipping circle works – not just enforcing it at him as a ‘fact’. The magnets are also wonderful idea!
Multiple karma for you for that!

Hello Ladies,

Well, after a long absence....again.....I apologize.

This story starts 19 months ago - two weeks after my son was born he started screaming - nonstop for hours. He slept 4-6 hours a day...total. I was a mess. By 10 months we got it figured out, and I discovered Early Learning, and was doing daycare. The subtle pressure (or overt in my case) to do it "ALL" with all the guilt to boot (you know - for not starting early enough, for not teaching the periodic table before 12 months, the fact that he wasn't able to leap tall buildings at 14 months), kept me up at night researching all the best EL methods and therapy for our Little Miss C. I haven't had more than 6 hours sleep for a year and a half - most nights it's more like 4.

This last fall I started getting sick. Every illness the daycare kids brought in I caught and then some. But, I plugged along with my favorite friend caffeine. This last illness, which was croup for the kids and a nasty virus for me and nearly put my little one in the hospital, knocked me out. So, I have been recovering and detoxing from caffeine and sleeping. I am sad about the caffeine but we must part ways, as I think it is best. Our relationship can't go on like this....

I will be back with lots of catch-up to do. I think I need about 4 more days....I am starting to feel less zombiefied. The caffeine headache is finally gone.

I need no sympathy as I am sure that all of you, who are also EL maniacs have gone through or are doing the same thing. My tolerance happens to be very low - I actually need sleep...I'm 42 not 25. So thank you all for your graciousness and I hope to see more of you soon.

I wish you all the best in finding your balance again. We understand. It's only good mums who get a little obsessive occasionally in trying to do the best by their children. It's the great mums that know when to pull back and just enjoy their children, and it's the experts who learn when to put themselves before their kids. Good luck.

Hope you're doing better now
I noticed you said in one of your first posts "My 17 month old loves the keyboard and asks to hear "Do" ". Here's what: my almost 4 years old son says exactly the same when he wants to see the LR or PPT files you girls made

Love you, hope to hear good news from you soon. I had a break few months too, on the forum, so I'm sure we'll see you again

Andrea