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[rivka]

Can anyone do obsession the way a three-year-old can do obsession?

Yesterday afternoon, Alex came home from a birthday party with a little maze in her favor bag. It was too hard for her, so I drew a simple maze on plain paper to show her how to work them. Then she wanted me to make her another one. I printed two out from online. When she finished, she asked me to help her erase them so she could do them again right away. And then it snowballed, and she was pulling mazes off the printer as fast as I could find them, and Michael and I kept having to yell "No running with a pencil in your hand!" Her skill level ramped up pretty quickly.

She did at least twenty before reluctantly going off to bed. This morning she slept an hour later than usual, and woke up crying. Michael went in to her.

"Nobody came to wake me up!" she sniffled.

No, he explained gently. On weekends she can sleep until she isn't tired anymore.

"But nobody came to wake me up," she wailed. "And I could've been doing MAZES!"

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[txanne.livejournal.com]

Do not EVER give her yarn. :-D

[eeyorerin]

Awwww.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I bet she tells all the other kids at church about mazes today.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I overheard her at the library, earnestly explaining to another mom and kid that her father was going to take her to a maze you can go right inside.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

*grin* Does Michael know about this?

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

I do. :)

I'd mentioned a corn maze to her, although I think it's too late in the season to actually find any that are still active. I think we'll all enjoy going to one next year, though.

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

http://www.billsgames.com/mazegenerator/

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Hee! We'll keep that in mind for when we've worked through the 1000 easy mazes here (http://krazydad.com/mazes/index.php?fmt=EZ).

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Ohmigosh, this is the perfect Baby Geek moment. :-)

[thette.livejournal.com]

I was like that when I was five...

We were four old girls in my daycare group, one aged six and three aged five. We all desperately wanted to start going to school, so we asked our teachers to make math books for us. They were nice, and filled out a couple of pages of simple addition excercises for us. The other girls thought it was fun to do one, but I demanded more and more. After a week or so of doing math at every opportunity, my teachers told my parents they were not going to make any more books for me. (My parents were delighted to make them, and started with more advanced stuff.)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Yay your parents :-)

I had similarly encouraging parents - I remember when my mother introduced me to numbers, and I *got* it, and I kept asking her to "give me more numbers!" and she'd write me a longer and longer list of them :)

Same mother who, when the librarian wouldn't let me check out a book cause it was way above my age level, marched right back down to the library with me and told the librarian that her daughter was to be allowed to take out any book she wished.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

When I was small, my grandfather had to (well, volunteered to) use his card to take out books for me ... because a child's card, in our system, only allows 6 books out at once, and that wasn't NEARLY enough to last me a WHOLE WEEK of reading!

It also had the advantage that I could hand him all the books that were 'too old' to be taken out on my card.

Our librarian got very used to us. Also sick of me, in a kind of resigned way -- she knew I wasn't getting into any trouble, and I was clearly well-supervised, but I didn't act like she thought 6-year-olds OUGHT to act, and it clearly bothered her.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

There's a maze in "Go Dog Go," if you want to try out the idea of hedge mazes.

K.

[selki.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's serious devotion to mazes! Cool. Have you ever done a labyrinth walk with her?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Labyrinths are different from mazes (I can't tell if you know this). Labyrinths have only one way to go while mazes have many choices, most of which go the wrong way.

Rivka, there are places around here that do corn mazes in kid size; there's probably some up near you, too.

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

I've already promised her a corn maze next year; after some searching, it looks like all the ones around here are done for the year. I think she'll enjoy it, and I'll make sure she wears her running shoes. :)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Ah, this answers my question up above. I'm sure she'll have a blast.

[selki.livejournal.com]

I knew the difference on one level but hadn't really thought it through -- thanks!

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know this one...I've heard nothing but "Caillou" for the last 4 days. *head rub* I'm glad she's enjoying mazes - they're fun.