A Time for Everything

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: ..." Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Blindisms...what are they? Simply put...they're behaviors that blind people exercise to keep themselves stimulated since they don't have the visual input we have. For example, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder move their head melodically to the music. Little children often push on their eyes. Some kids flap their hands, some rock...Taylor does it all!

We've been working on having Taylor "look" like the other kids in her kindergarten class. Now, that alone sometimes makes me laugh because she has no idea if she looks like the other kids or not, but it's important for her when developing peer relationships... Positive peer relationships. Sooo...for a while now, Lauren, Mike, the extended family, and I have been working on her to eliminate the rocking in particular. It gets a little nauseating for newcomers to watch her rock back and forth endlessly while carrying on a conversation, and we've gotten quite used to it ourselves. Lauren has been playing school with Taylor since last spring to get her used to sitting "criss-cross applesauce" as would be expected this year. Taylor mastered the sitting still at school.

Coming home from school in the first weeks, she would rock endlessly. We would ask her repeatedly to stop rocking and practice like she does at school. One day she was exasperated and declared, "I just have to rock! I don't rock at school, but I just HAVE to somewhere!" What better place than in the comfort of our own home, and everyone else's home as well?

There really is a time and a place for everything. I love learning some of the best lessons from our children. What is it time for you to do?