My baby started kinder on Tuesday to his excitement, took a while for him to separate but he seemed fine by afternoon, he didn’t like one of the teachers but I’m assuming she’s being crabby because she’s back to educating with 80 new kids still being put into their final classes & she may well be a bit old fashioned, I just don’t like people who don’t seem to respect children’s needs eg Trystan needing time to separate & his finding the room to noisy as he’s potentially an aspie boy.
I am currently reading “above all be kind : raising a humane child in challenging times” which is based on trying to raise a compassionate child, it has a lot of themes I first found in louise porters “Children are people too” so far I am thouroughly enjoying the book but am finding I was already familiar with most of the concepts but I am only a third into it.
An anonomous admirer gifted me $100 with amazon.com so on the 22nd January I bought 6 books with a cost to me of $7.50 as the postage ended up being $40 I was given an estimated delivery of 14th feb to 7th march so I was delighted to receive my books on the 2nd feb I think my book choice shows the kind of every increasing hippy survivalist I am becoming in my adult-ivity.
I have been feeling an urge to move back towards Armidale, I miss my friends, I miss my family & the people I moved up here with have ended up being very unkind, I always found Armidales winters hard as I feel cold badly but I still miss fires & wood cutting & I liked gardening seasonally & preserving it made me feel like there was rhythm to the year. I also find the cost of housing here to be hard to manage more so because the local real estate reject you if the $300-$400 a week nessesary to find a house to be more than 35% of my income which in theory stops people overextending & being poor, for me it just leaves my son & I homeless & me feeling like I need to lie to have a basic right.
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