tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314881.post5188781719871324540..comments2023-06-07T05:36:30.935-07:00Comments on See www.nurturedbylove.ca for the active version of this blog: Of back burnersmoominmammahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00561834420653149624noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314881.post-18745941410997360492009-03-16T10:47:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:47:00.000-07:00My kids are like this too. But we all are here -- ...My kids are like this too. But we all are here -- even the adults. We go through "learning spurts" where we become completely obsessed with a topic for a few weeks or months, then drop it and return again later. We learn best that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314881.post-8948132379309580142009-03-16T09:20:00.000-07:002009-03-16T09:20:00.000-07:00Excellent post!Excellent post!Jacquelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12268284552273860414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314881.post-62164143528734736952009-03-14T07:18:00.000-07:002009-03-14T07:18:00.000-07:00We definitely have this at home, and I'm never bot...We definitely have this at home, and I'm never bothered by it. A few months ago DS was a music theory addict, crying that he wanted to do just another page between supper and bed, or trying to do theory in the car even though he had trouble keeping to the lines without the world moving. Then overnight, the interest died. I know he was getting to the extent of where he could get at that moment. There had been too many new notes in too short a space of time, and things were in danger of getting mixed up. But before he could do his confidence an injury, he stopped doing theory, and instead became obsessed with reading. Reading has died off a little, perhaps hastened by advancing to some books that had just a few too many new words per page, and just too many pages. We still read, but it's not the same book 3 times a day and crying if he isn't given more. Now the tantrums are for the days when no-one will play cricket with him. I'm sure theory and reading will come around again, and I'll be interested to see how it will happen, and whether there is a jump in levels, or "just" an ability to handle the things that now I know are just a little bit much to take.Beccyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09105307933461445709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314881.post-62335142995587571102009-03-12T18:02:00.000-07:002009-03-12T18:02:00.000-07:00Great post! My own theory is that, much like our b...Great post! <BR/><BR/>My own theory is that, much like our brain is "working on things in the background" when we are sleeping (thus, we dream?) I think kids' minds are also working on these things "in the background". <BR/><BR/>I've found that after DD has taken a break from something, she'll come back to it seemingly ahead of where she left off. Or better able to grasp concepts that challenged her before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314881.post-41572466869014365902009-03-12T12:02:00.000-07:002009-03-12T12:02:00.000-07:00Thanks for that!Thanks for that!schmobeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13772362721096843670noreply@blogger.com