Invisible Poles

Scooter boy

We spent Sunday morning at the skate park. It seems that we have cracked the secret of the skate park. Teenagers don't get up early, esp on Sundays after a big Saturday night. It means that the kids get the skate park to themselves until about 10.30 and then they start to show up. It is more to protect the other kids from ours than anything. The little kids tend to just start riding regardless if it is straight in front of another rider. They have little peripheral vision for anyone and it seems that we as adults spend a lot of time apologizing for them if there are bigger kids there. I think they will get the rules in time but before that, there is always early Sunday morning.

This morning after moaning and whinging all weekend about attending Vacation Care, I was very nervous that the morning would involve me dragging him kicking and screaming to Care. Instead just to throw me off balance, he got up all happy and asked if he had to put on a school uniform or if he got to wear normal clothes. After I assured him that normal clothes were fine and he happily trotted off to get them on.

I dropped him off and there was a little girl already there. She was holding on to the post holding up the building in the centre of the room. As we came in she looked at Levi conspiratorially and said;

"This is the invisible pole, if you hold onto it, no one can see you"
Levi happily joined her holding the pole and the staff 'looked' for them. It was the easiest transfer it has been for, well, ever.