Chance loves math. This is the boy who would divide his M&M candies into colored piles before he would eat them when he was just tiny. This is the same boy who had a healthy competition going with a girl in his class as they competed to have the most 100 charts filled out in school.
Chance loves math and it is serious business when he is working out a math problem. Today as he sat at the table with his siblings doing math, he kept getting frustrated when anyone would make any noise as he figured out sums in his head.
"I HATE having to count over!" He bristled after someone had made noises.
Chance's siblings were actually not that loud. They were doing math themselves, but if they scrapped their chair on the floor, or made a comment to me, Chance would raise his head in frustration and say,"Shhhhhhhh!"
The math Chance is working on is adding large sums in his head and he is enjoying it, but he apparently wants complete peace and quiet while he is working:)
After a few minutes of Chance getting frustrated every time anyone made any noise, I unceremoniously took his implants off of his head and lay them on the table.
Chance looked confused for a moment and then he smiled, laughed and contentedly went back to his figuring.
"I wish I could do that." Chance's brother said looking enviously at Chance who was now totally engrossed in his math with out any distractions.
"Me too." Chance's sister chimed in.
I must add that I too wish that sometimes I could just shut the world off when the world got a little too loud or annoying.
2 comments:
That would be nice to shut out the world. I would choose to do something besides Math. Like take a nap.:)
I love this. Savanah often does things like this to her baby sister, "Gracie be quiet." "Gracie you are too loud, I am trying to look a my book!!!!"
All I have to do sometimes is just look at her and she knows she can take her implant off. I don't need her to do it all the time, but I understand the moments.
Yes, and I too wish I could do this!
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