2009, February 4, Wednesday
Since I had no plans for today, I thought that I would use it to teach Ivan some Math. I opened up his bag and found something, I guess the teacher must have started to teach on it. It was repeated number patterns, as what comes next, each having a difference of 2 or 3.
Ivan could not master it at first, I tried using drawings and stuff to make it clearer. Then he decided that he was not interested and was not going to focus. He kept doing everything but focus. We had started this session around 10am. He was just being so stubborn that he refuse to do it. I eventually went number by number, but he still refused to focus. Teaching a child who doesn't understand is one thing, teaching a child who doesn't want to focus is impossible!
But I was not going to give up without a fight. So we went on and on and on. Although, I had plans to take the boys out for lunch, I rescheduled. I needed to show Ivan I was serious. So I ordered in Mac's. I excused him for lunch and then we went back to the sums. He was MISERABLE.
Sometime, around 5pm I thought to myself, the poor boy had enough and that I was going to simplify the sums for him to so the next day. It was a very, very exhausting day.
Let me tell you the best part. The next day, I had given him the sums that I prepared and he shocked me. Just as I gave him the sums, my hubby called. I answered the call and when I hung up, Ivan had completed the whole thing without any fuss. What happened? Yet another mystery... in life.
Ivan could not master it at first, I tried using drawings and stuff to make it clearer. Then he decided that he was not interested and was not going to focus. He kept doing everything but focus. We had started this session around 10am. He was just being so stubborn that he refuse to do it. I eventually went number by number, but he still refused to focus. Teaching a child who doesn't understand is one thing, teaching a child who doesn't want to focus is impossible!
But I was not going to give up without a fight. So we went on and on and on. Although, I had plans to take the boys out for lunch, I rescheduled. I needed to show Ivan I was serious. So I ordered in Mac's. I excused him for lunch and then we went back to the sums. He was MISERABLE.
Sometime, around 5pm I thought to myself, the poor boy had enough and that I was going to simplify the sums for him to so the next day. It was a very, very exhausting day.
Let me tell you the best part. The next day, I had given him the sums that I prepared and he shocked me. Just as I gave him the sums, my hubby called. I answered the call and when I hung up, Ivan had completed the whole thing without any fuss. What happened? Yet another mystery... in life.
-bittersweetz-
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