Raising Boys

Lennon does well June 29, 2005

Lennon now knows how to follow simple instructions. At his school earlier today, his teacher asked him to do simple exercises that involved connecting dots from left to right. His teacher showed him how to do it and he completed the other sets on his own.

We still can’t understand him, his vocabulary at two years and five months is still limited to less than 20 words, but he sure can understand us. You tell him to do something and you need to say it only once. He’d understand immediately. Dad will tell him to go get something and he’d get it.

I’m sure that not being understood is frustrating to him. It’s possible this frustration is the cause of all his behavior problems. I’m really close to just quit forcing him to learn Cebuano even if I wanted to teach him this language first because he seems to have no aptitude for it.