Ethan update

As I mentioned in our phone conversation, I had a parent/teacher conversation for Ethan.  We call them SEP's here.  Once he goes to junior high they will be called SEOP's.  Anyway, he is doing very well.  He only struggles in a couple areas and that has to do with keeping himself organized.  And, really, he has a hard time with short term memory.  He's just kind of a little space cadet.  If he isn't interested in something, or if he doesn't see the importance of something, then he just lets it go through one ear and out the other. Rascal.

Our biggest battle right now is cursive.  He has beautiful cursive, but he doesn't like doing it and so he takes forever doing it.  As in 20 minutes doing one small paragraph (4 or 5 lines).  So he will fall behind on his cursive exercises and then will get overwhelmed.  To be honest, I'm a little anti-cursive exercises because I feel he has already shown he's mastered the skill, therefore these are now redundant. Yet he is wasting spending 20-25 minutes a day on these exercises.  At the same time, he still has to learn to follow through on what the teacher asks him to do. Thus the cycle perpetuates. Whatever.

Other than cursive he is doing just fine. He enjoys school and loves to read most of all.  Loves science and anything that involves learning about history, etc.

Right now, he is with Jonathan who is receiving his Wood Badge beads for Scouts -- which is an award for completing his goals.  It was too long of a drive for me to go on so I am, once again, sequestered at home.  Anything to do with scouts and Ethan is all over it right now. He is loving scouts, especially since he gets to spend time with Jonathan.

Ethan has a chess tournament next Saturday.  We had to talk to him last night about the duplicitous nature of girls because the last chess tournament Ethan allowed a girl to trick him into throwing a game in her favor.  In Ethan's mind, he thought he was doing the right thing because she hadn't won any games yet.  And I'm really proud of him for doing something so kind.  At the same time, though, he doesn't know or realize that he had been tricked into doing it.  Scary, really, how these girls learn so young!  Anyway, Jonathan had me give him that talk since I am a girl and thought Ethan would understand it better from me.

Life with a 10 year old is so great :)