This is my boy....and he's in many ways all boy... eager to fight and defend, expresses his love in physical ways that sometimes alarms his mother and is just a fun rambunctious lad. He makes my heart smile in so many ways. He can be careful, considerate, helpful, has great recall and likes to learn (except for math).
BUT because he's a rambunctious lad of eight, his thoughtfulness is not always there as he whacks me across the back with a sword or pounces on me from the bed, or falls on me when he plays dead after a sword fight.
I have to admit.. there are times when I wish I wasn't a 48 year old woman! Oh my... I"m NOT in shape, I'm not physically always strong or up to sudden tackles and I talk much with my lad about BEING careful, DON'T hurt me, but I don't want him to be afraid of just loving up on his mom in the manner in which boys love up on their moms.
I don't want to quash his spirit or his willingness to just be a boy who is full of life and laughter and conversation and joie de vive (if I have my french right).
I find it a bit of a challenge sometimes to say "I love you to son but you need to stop it". But I don't want to say stop it to him all the time and sometimes that's how I feel. That I am always saying stop it, enough now. I'm raising a singleton who doesn't have other children close by to run off energy and boyness with, so how do I help a lad do that?
I don't always know and am looking for suggestions.
This afternoon I had him run up and down the stairs 10 times.
I have him sit on a exercise ball when we do book work.. which sometimes has some interesting results. :)
But what else can I do with a boy who likes to be physically involved with a mom who isn't always up to the challenge? (He's SO not into sports so that's not an option for me, not that we can afford to put him into a regular sports event).
I don't want to quash his spirit, I just want to manage his exuberance just a little.
Any thoughts out there?
BUT because he's a rambunctious lad of eight, his thoughtfulness is not always there as he whacks me across the back with a sword or pounces on me from the bed, or falls on me when he plays dead after a sword fight.
I have to admit.. there are times when I wish I wasn't a 48 year old woman! Oh my... I"m NOT in shape, I'm not physically always strong or up to sudden tackles and I talk much with my lad about BEING careful, DON'T hurt me, but I don't want him to be afraid of just loving up on his mom in the manner in which boys love up on their moms.
I don't want to quash his spirit or his willingness to just be a boy who is full of life and laughter and conversation and joie de vive (if I have my french right).
I find it a bit of a challenge sometimes to say "I love you to son but you need to stop it". But I don't want to say stop it to him all the time and sometimes that's how I feel. That I am always saying stop it, enough now. I'm raising a singleton who doesn't have other children close by to run off energy and boyness with, so how do I help a lad do that?
I don't always know and am looking for suggestions.
This afternoon I had him run up and down the stairs 10 times.
I have him sit on a exercise ball when we do book work.. which sometimes has some interesting results. :)
But what else can I do with a boy who likes to be physically involved with a mom who isn't always up to the challenge? (He's SO not into sports so that's not an option for me, not that we can afford to put him into a regular sports event).
I don't want to quash his spirit, I just want to manage his exuberance just a little.
Any thoughts out there?
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