This morning Josh had a meltdown over a new piano piece he is learning. (He thinks he should play it perfectly the first time he ever practices a new song and has little patience for mistakes or for his mother helping him.) ((He also doesn't believe that even his piano teacher has to learn new piano pieces and that when she does she makes mistakes.)) The meltdown was so epic that he refused to get on the school bus, even after I told him that he would lose all computer privileges this weekend. (This will become especially harsh after he opens certain birthday presents tomorrow...)
But he stood his ground and missed the bus and I had to grumpily load him and Tess and Cole into the car and drive him to school. I hate driving kids to school.
After preschool one of Tess's teachers told me that she had had a mini-meltdown after snack today because she hadn't finished her snack in time but most definitely did NOT want her teacher to take her cheese stick away. The teacher said it was a short meltdown and she quickly recovered, but that she thought I would be interested to know that this happened. This kind of came as a surprise to me, but then I was kind of glad that it happened because if any kid needs to learn that the world does not revolve around her and that she can't always get her way, it's Tess. Even better that this lesson came outside of the home, because despite all of the effort to teach her this lesson in the home she refuses to learn!
On Thursdays Cole gets a little treat from his preschool teachers if he completes all of the centers in his class for the week. (Centers are different activities, like reading, drawing, pre-k type stuff.) Last week he got a mini bag of M&Ms, and this week it was some fruit snacks. Tess has had a meltdown in the hallway over this each week.
Today I learned... that my next several (if not all) Thursdays will probably involve a meltdown from Tess when I pick them up from preschool. *sigh*
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