Yesterday I talked about my plans for the kids over summer break. One of my ideas is to make up some goals for them to work toward, mainly life skills that they need to know.
My main goals for the boys are for them to learn to tie their shoes and ride their bikes without training wheels. Yes, I know, it’s pretty sad that an 8-year-old and a 7-year-old still cannot do either of these tasks, but believe me, it hasn’t been for lack of trying. Neither of the boys wear shoes that lace-up very often, so it isn’t usually an issue and their lack of ability gets overlooked.
As for the bikes, Cody has notoriously horrible balance. The kid will be walking along, even sometimes just sitting, and all of a sudden he’ll fall over. When he was much younger, he once told me that his legs were “tricky” and just didn’t want to work right. Suffice it to say that riding a bike without training wheels is not an easy task for a child with such poor balance, especially a child forced to learn on gravel roads, which is all we have around here.
Logan, on the other hand, has never been particularly interested in pushing the pedals on his bike at all. From the get-go, he has always held his tricycle, and later, bike, by the handlebars and wheeled it around, walking next to it. I’ve thought this was extremely strange, but never worried too much about it.
I also want each of them to pick a hobby or skill that they’d like to spend time on and perfect this summer. For Cody, I’m guessing it will be baseball-related, since he just started baseball practice yesterday. He has been wanting to play the past few years, but it never worked out. He’s so excited about it, even though he has hardly ever played. I think a daily assignment of 15-20 minutes of catch and batting practice won’t be out of line for him.
I’m getting excited for summer with all of these ideas, so I hope they work out the way I’m envisioning them in my head.
Now I just have to get to the mundane task of getting everything organized and on paper so I can actually implement this plan.
Hi, Sarah. Fellow FLXer and Blogathon member here, too. Stumbled upon your blog and can relate to your posts. As a WAHM, writer, and parent of two youngsters, life is rarely slow or boring. Thanks for the read.