Sofi's New Year's Resolution
I actually did happen to talk with Sofi last night about her New Year's Resolution. About how this is a time of the year to reflect about the past year and think about what we'd like to improve about ourselves in the future.
It might seem like this topic is a bit above our almost-4-year-old but she was actually quite interested. (She is acting quite mature these days...well SOME days :-) When I asked her what she would like to get better at this coming year she paused and thought a bit and then said that she would like to not be so cold in her clothes. I agreed that clothing choices are important. So we talked about how the clothes she chooses do affect how comfortable she is and that one has to sort of figure out what is needed and then change if what was was chosen doesn't work.
I was quite impressed with this resolution because she does often get confused as to why she needs warm clothes on a cold day instead of cold clothes on a cold day. And she gets confused over which clothes are warm or cold. In fact this summer I tried to help her by attaching a little picture of a snowman on the drawer containing her warmer clothes and a little picture of a swimming pool on the drawer containing her cool clothes. But all that resulted in was her thinking she was going to go swimming whenever she picked clothes from the swimming pool drawer! Her choices are also heavily influenced by fashion whims rather than temperature needs of the day but I know we will continue to work on this. Heck! Most of my High School students are still working on this!!! I wonder how long it will take them to figure out that spaghetti straps and flip flops are NOT sexy in the middle of winter...
All in all I think her resolution is spot on. Especially since today was a very cold day (a high of 12 degrees F!). I was wearing wool pants and fleece around the house this evening and my daughter was dancing around buck naked before her bath, giggling. It made me cold just looking at her! And yes, I must be turning into my mother.
It might seem like this topic is a bit above our almost-4-year-old but she was actually quite interested. (She is acting quite mature these days...well SOME days :-) When I asked her what she would like to get better at this coming year she paused and thought a bit and then said that she would like to not be so cold in her clothes. I agreed that clothing choices are important. So we talked about how the clothes she chooses do affect how comfortable she is and that one has to sort of figure out what is needed and then change if what was was chosen doesn't work.
I was quite impressed with this resolution because she does often get confused as to why she needs warm clothes on a cold day instead of cold clothes on a cold day. And she gets confused over which clothes are warm or cold. In fact this summer I tried to help her by attaching a little picture of a snowman on the drawer containing her warmer clothes and a little picture of a swimming pool on the drawer containing her cool clothes. But all that resulted in was her thinking she was going to go swimming whenever she picked clothes from the swimming pool drawer! Her choices are also heavily influenced by fashion whims rather than temperature needs of the day but I know we will continue to work on this. Heck! Most of my High School students are still working on this!!! I wonder how long it will take them to figure out that spaghetti straps and flip flops are NOT sexy in the middle of winter...
All in all I think her resolution is spot on. Especially since today was a very cold day (a high of 12 degrees F!). I was wearing wool pants and fleece around the house this evening and my daughter was dancing around buck naked before her bath, giggling. It made me cold just looking at her! And yes, I must be turning into my mother.
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