Sophia is ready for school in her mind......no doubt about it. Her behaviour patterns and her language is changing and she's getting extremely active throughout the day. I'd swear she's craving the company of other children too. Her play seems to have gotten more complex.....we're into hosts of imaginary friends at the moment. I'm told there's someone at the door on a regular basis and when we go to open the door, there can be anywhere between 1 and 6 'friends' coming to visit. Most are from movies or programs she has seen. Often they are coming to 'tea' or a picnic and we've then got to go about finding them all chairs and getting them food and drink! She also likes to play 'school' where I have to give her schoolwork and call 'recess' from time to time. Her paintings are still quite simple most of the time but the subjects are interesting - I have no idea what a Miafologis is for example! Yesterday she did one she called, 'Human Body Selections' and made me label what everything was haha!
The really good thing is that she seems to be getting the hang of conflict resolution. She had an incident where a boy pushed her over at preschool last week. She started to meltdown a bit when her favourite teacher asked her what was wrong and could she help. Much to our surprise, she snapped out of it and told the teacher who then asked her, "What would you like to happen?"
Well, up go her fists onto her hips and her right toe starts tapping furiously (something we've seen her do only once or twice) and she announced very clearly - "I would like an apology!" This wonderful teacher went to the transgressor and asked him to tell Sophia he was sorry - which he did thankfully - and Sophia just lit up and all was forgiven, just like that. It made her day. Now in the last two months, she's been bitten, kicked, punched and pushed and finally when she was given the chance to communicate what she wanted - she took it and was clear about it and it was resolved. I never thought I'd see it. Just Magic!
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