Day Three Hundred Thirty-Five

I mentioned that Mila has become enthralled with group sessions on Flexable Care, and that trend continues. Mostly the kid is happy to have an audience to listen to her talking endlessly for half an hour. Adults, other kids ... it doesn't matter. She has a lot of words and a lot of extroverting to do, and that give her an outlet for it.

The clay creatures class in particular has become a favorite. It's basically a guy facilitating a bunch of little kids making things with clay while they all talk about what they're doing. It sounds so simple, but is SO genius. Each time Mila has attended one of the sessions, it's turned into a multi-hour extravaganza. She gets started, has lots of ideas, and then stays committed to her projects for the rest of the day, even after the Zoom portion of the festivities has ended. Basically, it's the best $15 I've ever spent. I've committed to doing it weekly at least because BRING ON THE HAPPY KID.

Except, I didn't do it last week. There was no particular reason. I just didn't feel like setting the whole thing up. It takes a whopping 5 minutes, but that somehow sounded like work. So, whatever. I figured the kid would survive, especially because there's nothing stopping her from dragging out her box of clay and self-motivating her way to piles of unicorns and mermaids and whatever else she wants to make. I even gave her a list of things I wanted her to make for me.

Annnnnnnd that failed. Instead of becoming obsessed with clay for the day, Mila decided it was time to play with markers. She made like a toddler and colored herself yellow. All of herself. She looked like a Minion is what I'm saying.

Mila definitely knows better.

I asked lots of questions and tried to figure out why Mila decided to do something not awesome. It wasn't the end of the world, of course, but COME ON. She's six! She can not make bad choices! It's possible!

Eventually Mila explained herself. "Mom, you know there are consequences for our choices. You should have signed me up for the clay class."

This child is going to destroy me.