Morgan is Six
Jul. 29th, 2018 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiger_spotMorgan is six. Wow.
She wanted fancy dresses for her birthday; she got one, along with a different fancy dress for a wedding we'll be going to later this month and an Indian formal outfit for the Hindu portion of the wedding. She is delighted by every part of this.
She remains remarkably social; the day before her birthday we had planned a picnic lunch in the park, which she was not in the mood for at the time. But when we arrived, she spotted a kid she had never met before on the playground, cried "A kid for me to play with!" and was very happy with her new friend for the next several hours, including inviting her to her birthday party and getting the parents to exchange contact information. Really all she needs out of life is another kid, enough space to run around, and something to climb on.
She desperately wants to be permitted to walk to her friends' houses to see if they're home and can play with her. She has enough friends in the neighborhood, and our neighborhood is sufficiently low-traffic, that I feel like this is physically fairly safe, but I'm not sure how polite it is, or whether we would run into trouble with the, ah, overall community perception of safety.
Her kindergarten year was a smashing success. Her various summer camps have all wrapped up for the year, and first grade will be starting alarmingly soon. She's a bit anxious about the reshuffling of the classes and whether she'll be in with her best friends; I'm a bit anxious about how much of the construction they've been doing on the campus will be incomplete when school starts. But I am sure that all these things will develop workarounds, and a month or two from now we will have settled in nicely.
She wanted fancy dresses for her birthday; she got one, along with a different fancy dress for a wedding we'll be going to later this month and an Indian formal outfit for the Hindu portion of the wedding. She is delighted by every part of this.
She remains remarkably social; the day before her birthday we had planned a picnic lunch in the park, which she was not in the mood for at the time. But when we arrived, she spotted a kid she had never met before on the playground, cried "A kid for me to play with!" and was very happy with her new friend for the next several hours, including inviting her to her birthday party and getting the parents to exchange contact information. Really all she needs out of life is another kid, enough space to run around, and something to climb on.
She desperately wants to be permitted to walk to her friends' houses to see if they're home and can play with her. She has enough friends in the neighborhood, and our neighborhood is sufficiently low-traffic, that I feel like this is physically fairly safe, but I'm not sure how polite it is, or whether we would run into trouble with the, ah, overall community perception of safety.
Her kindergarten year was a smashing success. Her various summer camps have all wrapped up for the year, and first grade will be starting alarmingly soon. She's a bit anxious about the reshuffling of the classes and whether she'll be in with her best friends; I'm a bit anxious about how much of the construction they've been doing on the campus will be incomplete when school starts. But I am sure that all these things will develop workarounds, and a month or two from now we will have settled in nicely.
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Date: 2018-08-21 05:25 pm (UTC)I am annoyed that community perceptions of safety are such an issue now.
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Date: 2018-08-24 04:32 am (UTC)When we're out walking and one kid or another gets far ahead/behind, I see neighbors registering them and doing the "where's the parent?" scan, upon which I wave and they give the "just checking" thumbs-up, which is exactly perfect and I appreciate, but I don't know what the local range of reactions to a Parent Not Found result on that scan is, you know? I like to think folks would be reasonable, but also we've had the cops called on us for a barking dog noise complaint when it wasn't even our dog that was barking, so the possible high end of the range is... alarming.