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Wednesday: Dutch! Yay! Walk, gratitude
Sep. 18th, 2019 05:00 pmI had a Dutch lesson today. I saw A.! I am so happy!
I walked with M. I asked her about when she started to listen to NPR and get interested in news and politics. It turns out that was around the same age that T. got interested. Good to know!
I have been thinking about news consumption. I feel like we are all consuming a lot of news. Maybe more than would be ideal. So I am looking for ways to cut back. I asked the babysitter to listen to music, weather or whatever when the radio in the car is on when my son is in the car with her (obviously, wrong to ask her otherwise!). I will see what effect this has on my son’s momentum on various political topics. Next step would be to require an open door when he is watching political news in his room so if one of us wants to watch what he is watching, we can. But I only want to go there if I have to; the idea of watching what he watches just gives me the heebies. Which means I probably SHOULD be watching Faux news along with him. Sigh.
Maybe I will assign him The Daily Show as required watching.
I am also thinking about maybe reading more again. I mean, I know, I worked super hard to cut back on books, with very mixed success. But maybe I should go back to books and read less news; perhaps it would be contagious I do not know.
Also, I experienced gratitude today!! This is an emotion I never experience, and honestly I really thought did not actually exist as a Real Thing. Seriously. Not joking. Not sarcastic. But today, after I got off the phone with a friend, I realized I was Grateful. And like all things, I did it totally Wrong! I am grateful that when someone came to me with a pretty big problem, I was able to contribute meaningfully to the solution. In part, that was because I actually have a much more detailed understanding of What Not to Say and What to Say than I used to. In part, that is because I recognize that problem solving needs to be broken down into very small pieces. But a huge chunk was just having the resources to Fix It.
Additionally, super grateful to the society I live in, and previous self and all the other many contributors that made a structure that meant I had the resources to Help.
Apologies for vagueness; I think you can probably imagine why I am being vague.
I walked with M. I asked her about when she started to listen to NPR and get interested in news and politics. It turns out that was around the same age that T. got interested. Good to know!
I have been thinking about news consumption. I feel like we are all consuming a lot of news. Maybe more than would be ideal. So I am looking for ways to cut back. I asked the babysitter to listen to music, weather or whatever when the radio in the car is on when my son is in the car with her (obviously, wrong to ask her otherwise!). I will see what effect this has on my son’s momentum on various political topics. Next step would be to require an open door when he is watching political news in his room so if one of us wants to watch what he is watching, we can. But I only want to go there if I have to; the idea of watching what he watches just gives me the heebies. Which means I probably SHOULD be watching Faux news along with him. Sigh.
Maybe I will assign him The Daily Show as required watching.
I am also thinking about maybe reading more again. I mean, I know, I worked super hard to cut back on books, with very mixed success. But maybe I should go back to books and read less news; perhaps it would be contagious I do not know.
Also, I experienced gratitude today!! This is an emotion I never experience, and honestly I really thought did not actually exist as a Real Thing. Seriously. Not joking. Not sarcastic. But today, after I got off the phone with a friend, I realized I was Grateful. And like all things, I did it totally Wrong! I am grateful that when someone came to me with a pretty big problem, I was able to contribute meaningfully to the solution. In part, that was because I actually have a much more detailed understanding of What Not to Say and What to Say than I used to. In part, that is because I recognize that problem solving needs to be broken down into very small pieces. But a huge chunk was just having the resources to Fix It.
Additionally, super grateful to the society I live in, and previous self and all the other many contributors that made a structure that meant I had the resources to Help.
Apologies for vagueness; I think you can probably imagine why I am being vague.