Each child learns at his or her own pace.
Today’s report:
We are thankful and amazed at how God is sustaining us through our three years of very hard things. He really is with us just as Psalm 23 says. Your prayers mean very much to us. We know God is listening. Thank you!! We are in Pleasant View where we always stay. It is quiet and the drive isn’t congested until Bordeaux and we are near my brother and niece in Clarksville. Today we go to the 100 Oaks clinic at ten to the Infectious Diseases dept (To see if Ray has no infectious diseases???) and then at 1:00 to the Dayani Center to check his fitness. That’s all today, then five appointments tomorrow. Friday is the day of decision for the lung transplant evaluation committee. Please pray for God’s will which we hope is yes!!
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When our four-year-old grandson spent the night recently, he and I talked about what he likes to eat. He said that he likes the punch bread his mama makes. I was at a loss. Punch bread? What in the world is that? Then he explained and demonstrated, “You punch it.”
When our daughter brought a beautiful round loaf of her yummy homemade “punch bread” for Easter lunch, she told me that she had let him do the punching.
Mrs. Bettenhausen bakes bread in McIntosh County, North Dakota, in November 1940. Photo by John Vachon. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection.
So now I have another cute grandchild story, but our grandson’s descriptive naming of his mama’s bread also illustrates his child development. Some—maybe many—of a mama’s frustrations with her child’s learning challenges are actually the result of the child’s development. We know that a four-year-old might call something a cute name, but it is harder to think of a mistake as cute when it involves a “school subject.”
Always remember that each child learns at his or her own pace. Just because something is true for a child right now does not mean that it will always be true. Just because a child is not at a certain point at a certain time does not mean that he or she will never get there. Strict timetables are for buses, trains, and planes, not for children.
When I was a child,
I used to speak like a child,
think like a child,
reason like a child;
when I became a man,
I did away with childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11
What a grand observation: “We know that a four-year-old might call something a cute name, but it is harder to think of a mistake as cute when it involves a “school subject.” Something to thinking about, for sure.
This is so true. My two youngest sons, both having learning disabilities, are not where others at their age may be. But they are still advancing and learning. The oldest of the two has been employed for one year now and is used as a model employee. He has learned how to use his voice when he has questions. His new independence comes from our continuing to homeschool even when he was “behind” at his age. Thank you for your encouragement Charlene.
Continuing prayers over Ray, you and your family. And what a beautiful reminder from this day’s topic that comforted my own heart. “Strict timetables are for buses, trains, and planes, not for children” is a quote I will keep in mind as we continue on our beautiful journey of homeschooling and getting outside of the box of the “normal” way of doing school.