Levi was in trouble today. In the morning after I left, he was talking with my sister and when my mother came in, he neglected to instantly respond to her greeting. Jo roused on him and told him how much he'd hurt her feelings and then cried. Then I got an Email at work, telling all about it.
I just want to be on holidays and to take him away to where people don't expect him to be the adult. I don't know what the right thing to do is at times. I know that I don't want him to grow up too quickly. He is five, not even five and a half yet. Sometimes kids concentrate on one thing and ignore their surroundings. Sometimes kids don't hear. Sometimes kids make mistakes. The key here is that he is a kid. He shouldn't have to shoulder the burden. That is an adult's job. It all just seemed like such an irrelevant event. It doesn't seem to have warranted the response that it got, esp from an adult to the child. I don't have any idea if I should try to explain to him what happened or just let it go. I don't know whether to explain to him that some adults need a lot more maintenance, or just to explain to him that he should just stay downstairs and play quietly until it is time for school.
I chose the latter. I don't want to have him not like his grandmother. I had a grandmother that disliked us as children and I don't want that to happen here. This incident is not that bad but it did make me sit up and think. It also made me recount the days to holidays. I can't wait!
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