After watching Aditya inside his class as well as before and after school for about a month, we have requested that Aditya went to school 2 hours a day instead of 4. This continues to give him the opportunity to be in the "real world" (as opposed to his playroom and his home), but it limits the exposure he has to an unpredictable, chaotic world of 6 year olds. It also gives us a chance to provide him with better support (joining) when he ism's after coming back from school.
In the meantime, he continues to be very interested in knowing ways (Pounds, kilos, Newtons, elephants, jars, etc:-) in which people of the world what to measure weight. He also has some concerns what might happen if he mistakenly changed the setting on the scale to read Kilograms instead of Pounds. (He mentioned he was worried about getting a time out for this!) We think that in order to feel in control about this he has been talking of inventing a new scale which knows what measurement to show depending on who stands on it. At another time he mentioned he would be a strict dad and give his daughter (interesting... not son) a 85 minute time-out if she made the mistake of changing the setting when no grown up was watching. She would be given a 170 minute time out if she repeated the same mistake in spite of that.
We discussed this with our teacher, and made sure we were not over-simplifying/over-complicating our response to this. The last thing we told him about this is we were okay for any one in the house to change it to their preferred setting (kg or pounds).... because it was easy to change it back if we did not like it! He seemed to smile when he heard this (was he also feeling relieved?)
Lastly... we have had two new candidates interview for a position on our team. Of course, both were also interviewed by the man himself.
"How was your day" he asked a candidate, who met us yesterday. ("Wow!" I thought when I saw this.)
"My day has been going well. I played with kids. I do that for a job."
"I have a friend named XYZ who used to play with kids at the day care. " ("WOW! A social comment that has no "purpose" besides just flowing with the current conversation!)
"Really, and now he does not play with you?"
"No, he played with me for LIKE a month". (The LIKE is something we have been hearing a lot these days.)
Every new interview, we see a new and improved boss who does his part of the interview!
He also explained what he plays these days (1-touch) to both candidates and clarified himself when he thought they did not get it!
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