1. Green men - I've blogged before about the green man pedestrian crossing obsession, and it shows no signs of abating. I do try to just go with it, but it's a right pain in the a*se sometimes. If someone else has already pressed the button, he stops in his tracks and will not approach until it's gone back to red. The latest thing is that after crossing the road, he then wants to press the button again, then we carry on walking/scootering onwards on our journey, with him looking back behind him waiting to see the green man reappear. Gah! I've started to dread the walk to and from playgroup as there are about 8 crossings and it takes so bloody long!
2. Flushing the toilet - another one that has been around for several months, since the start of potty training really. He cries if he hears someone else flush our loo instead of him. I think it used to be a problem at playgroup, as they often told me he'd spent half the session in the loo - but more recently he's got very into painting and drawing, and I think that has distracted him a bit.
3. Switching the kettle on - he has to do it, or a crying fit will be the result. Same goes for pushing down the toast - and a new one, putting Daisy's nappies into the outside bin and recycling into the box - all these tasks must be carried out by Jamie, and Jamie alone.
4. Letters and numbers - he now knows all the letters, both upper and lower case, and numbers 0-10. Did you know that all lampposts and traffic lights have a number stuck on them? No? Well I do, because we have to stop at every single one (when walking obviously - not driving!) so that he can read them. Another reason why our walks to playgroup/tesco/anywhere really take twice as long as they should.
I do worry, though. Words like "aspergers" sometimes flash into my head, because he is SO dogmatic and determined about these things and just can't be swayed. I'm hoping it's just a phase. It's difficult when it's your first child, as it's hard to know what's normal and what isn't. I'm worried about his social skills at the moment too. Recently, when we've met up with friends and their kids, he's seemed to prefer to play on his own. He seems better with just one friend - he'll play then, but in a big group he doesn't always join in.
As for the letters - on the one hand, I'm proud of him for having learned them. But I know they teach reading via phonics at primary school, so he really needs to know the letter sounds, rather than their names. So I'm going to look for some books or videos on Youtube to see if I can get him saying the sounds. This has all come from him by the way - I haven't pushed it on him at all and didn't want to "teach" him anything so formal at this age. It worries me that when he starts school, he'll be bored if he already knows all the stuff they'll be learning. Or that I'll teach him it wrong and he'll have to unlearn everything. My mum tells me that I could read before I went to school, but times have changed and it's much more about learning through play at their age now. From what I've heard from primary teachers, the main things they need are a love of learning and of books - if they have those things, they'll do really well.
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