So anyway, my subversive plot is to have the boy enjoy baseball. After all my wife cooks with him all the time. We have taken him to a couple of his little buddy's baseball games and today my wife and I got him a little T and T-ball bat. He had fun with it for about five minutes, but really he doesn't spend much more than five minutes with most of his toys. and I didn't force it on him, he picked up the bat and swung it a few times, and I am wise enough that when he got bored we moved on. Later he had a great time with his cousin "Miggy." They should spend more time together they both seemed to have a great time. The only downside is it is closing in on 9:30 and the boy is still talking to himself in his room. Oh well.
5.02.2010
Subversive Parenting
So naturally my wife and I want the boy to be happy. Sincerely, I could wish and hope and pray for him to enter any number of careers or avoid any number of choices but really all we want is for him to be happy. That being said, is it so wrong to try and maybe steer him towards the things that we enjoy? I mean really if he hates it fine, he can always watch the Little Einsteins until he's 30.
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Subversive parenting....is there any other kind? I remember being really impressed by a book entitled "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" (and yes, I do know that the title should have been underlined and not in quotes but there was no way to make the computer do that). This of course was read during my teacher training in the mid- to late- 70's. Subversiveness as a way of life can be interesting and fun!
ReplyDeleteUm, teaching Jackson to cook is a life skill, not subversive parenting. Incase anything should ever happen to me, I want to rest assured knowing that Jackson will be able to feed you.
ReplyDeleteBaseball is a life skill, kind of. : )
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is thank goodness Tom found the T, I was worried that Jackson had missed two days of training.