Learning from my 4 year old

My son got a wonderful report from his nursery this last term. They tell me he is very intelligent and does his work with concentration. Now that’s he’s 4 I’ve got a tutor for him to start reading the Quran. And when she comes over to teach him, my son wants to climb on the table or sit under it. I can’t understand why he can’t sit still just for 20 minutes when he can spend 5 hours at school doing his work so well.

I also can’t understand why he must get up at 6 when the alarm is set for 7:15am and then jump on me in my bed. And why must he go to the park and then tell me he wants to do potty. Despite some of his odd habits there is much I can learn from him.

Last year when he had Animal day in his school he put a python around his shoulders and didn’t bat an eyelid. I could learn courage from him.

One day he was pretending to be a wolf and walking on all fours when he took a tumble and hurt his head. Instead of stopping he went and wore his bicycle helmet. I could learn resilience from him.

He always has an answer ready for everything. When I asked him why he wasn’t eating the cheese with his breadsticks, he said because he wasn’t a rat. And he wouldn’t have his carrots because he wasn’t a rabbit. I could learn to be witty like him.

He was singing a song and changing the words and laughing loudly at the result. I could learn from him to laugh more.

If he’s upset with me over something he’ll tell me to go away and when I leave the room he’ll come after me and try to be friends. I could learn from him to forgive easily.

And lastly he tells me about 10 times a day that I’m pretty and kisses me and hugs me. I could learn to be more loving like him.

Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ

1. Secrets of the universe | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
2. Ethical Professor Boynton (Part 1) | The Jittery Goat
3. Really! How much more 🙂 (for my US friends) | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
4. The younger years | muffinscout
5. Daily Pormpt; Generation XYZ | Journeyman
6. Internet Monsters: a very Grimm tale… Daily Prompt | alienorajt
7. Another Day at the Gym | That’s Just The Way It Is
8. Rock of the Ages | Exploratorius
9. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | Incidents of a Dysfunctional Spraffer
10. For Fun: The More, The Many-er | Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | likereadingontrains
11. DP Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | Sabethville
12. I’m not happy with Naked People | Hope* the happy hugger
13. Jumping the gaps | Unlocking The Inner Creative
14. Daily Prompt: XYZ | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
15. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | The Wandering Poet
16. Dating Through My Eyes | The Story of a Guy
17. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ – Facebook are for the oldies | littlegirlstory
18. The wisdom of old age (Daily prompt Haiku) | Tales of a slightly stressed Mother!
19. The Really Inconvenient Truth | The Dragon Weyr
20. Daily Prompt: Don’t Stop Learning | Step It Up
21. Age | Sue’s Trifles
22. Purpose Not Power | The Photo Faith Challenge
23. Generations | hitting a brick wall
24. The Psychology of Managing Across Multiple Generations in the Workplace: The Sandwich Method « psychologistmimi
25. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | My Endless Rants & Ramblings
26. Generated Generation. « ayimas
27. Oh to be 90! | Zeebra Designs & Destinations
28. Goldilocks and Generational Snobbery | meanderedwanderings
29. Zeebra Designs & Destinations
30. S. Thomas Summers: Writing with some Ink and a Hammer | The Music of Steel
31. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | laura-in-china
32. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | Everyday Adventures
33. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | ferwam
34. Generation XYZ | The Nameless One
35. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ – Celebration and Protest | The Pink Cucumber
36. Maiden – Mother – Crone – Honoring Lifestages | Shrine of Hecate – Ramblings of a New Age Witch
37. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
38. Mentoring: A Strand of Three | Live Life in Crescendo
39. daily prompt: Generation XYZ | aimanss…
40. Generation XYZ | Flowers and Breezes
41. How Young are you? | Cascading Dreams
42. GEN X VS. GEN ALPHA | DANDELION’S DEN
43. Why Me vs Me Me Me | Reinvention of Mama
44. Talking ‘Bout Yer Generation | The Shotgun Girls
45. Why Do Young People Think ‘Just One Step’ =s Accessibility?
46. My treasure | Life is great
47. NOT Talking ‘Bout my Generation | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
48. How my story turned into a class project and gave me hope for the next generation | The Silver Leaf Journal
49. Yesterday and today | Myriad Notions
50. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | medicinalmeadows
51. Learning Through the Ages | The Abuse Expose’ with Secret Angel
52. The sun is the same in a relative way « Sithiram
53. Inspiration Monday 27 January 2014 Meets the Daily Prompt: Never Send a Man to do a Boy’s Job | One Starving Activist
54. UNDERSTANDING GEN X AND Y … SAY WHAT? | Serendipity
55. IITYWTMWYBMAD?* (or How the Internet created a new language) | MC’s Whispers
56. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ |
57. Daily Prompt – Generation XYZ | Views Splash!
58. Through the ages | Willow’s Corner
59. Generation XYZ: What’s Age Anyway? |
60. Like, gag me with a spoon! | The Flavored Word
61. The Age of Cyber-Telepathy…(wp daily prompt) | Daily Observations
62. Age | Rebecca Barray – Writer/Photographer
63. Where live the giants? | Emotional Fitness
64. Daily Prompt – Generation XYZ – Young Old Man |
65. Every second turning us in Gold | Dreams to Reality !
66. Give Me Money. | The Playground
67. Respect « One Crazy Mom
68. The Generation XYZ | Passionately Bored
69. A Certain Disconnect | My Author-itis
70. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ/The Stagen Family | Advocacine’s Blog
71. Hurt Not The Earth | Making Life an Art
72. Age | The Land Slide Photography
73. Going for the Kill (# 9) | Rolbos ©
74. Dear GenX, Boomers: Why Are You So Obsessed With GenY’s Shortcomings? | thanks for letting me autograph your cat
75. X, Y and V: is for Vampire « Brigid’s Cauldron, Prometheus’ Fire
76. Finding Wisdom Along the Mayan Path | Pairings :: Art + What Goes With It
77. Generations | authenticallyannamarie
78. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | I really just pretend to know stuff
79. Daily Prompt: Age | That Montreal Girl
80. Daily post: Age | Destino
81. Daily Prompt Challenge ~ Age | soletusknow
82. Daily prompt: The bliss of entitlement | helen meikle’s scribblefest
83. 10 Reasons That I Wish I Was A Toddler | The Pinterested Parent
84. There’s No App For That Revisited | Wiley’s Wisdom
85. Millenial | My Infernal Imagination
86. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | Basically Beyond Basic
87. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ, 30 January 2014 | The San Francisco Scene–Seen!
88. Somewhere Between X and Y | Polymathically
89. If I’d only known then … | Brome Hill
90. Daily Prompt: An Open Letter to Generation Z | Gradual Thought
91. AGES: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | The Christian Gazette
92. Educating Our Kids to be Responsible Digital Citizens « Kakie’s Corner
93. annerledesland
94. Generation gap | The Word Trance
95. Daily Prompt: Age | Wicked Words
96. Daily Prompt: Age | Reflections on a Theme
97. Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation | Edward Hotspur
98. Daily Prompt: Generation XYZ | Your Daily Dose