I have posted before about Pepe's friendly personality. The friendliness continues. Everywhere we see kids, Pepe just goes up to them and tells them who he is, and what toys he plays with, or just butts in and starts playing. "Hi boy" or "Hi girl" is the usual introduction. Sometimes, he starts announcing things like "I have chips", "I am going to the toy store to buy a truck". He is very independent in these encounters, and wants to be by himself. "Go away daddy, go away mommy". This is the nice thing about the rez (town beach) - he can walk around and as long as we can keep an eye on him, we feel he is safe. Once in a while we walk behind him just to hear the conversations he has with other kids (or the duckies), and other times we have to interfere as Pepe starts playing with other kids' toys and there are protests (it's funny how it works out, Pepe wants and brings 2-3 trucks to the beach, but never plays with them; yesterday he wanted to play with a truck identical with one of the trucks he brought to the beach..just bc it was not his). He is getting so much better about sharing, letting go when kids don't want him to play with their toys. It still bothers me that I can't find another way of taking him away rather than saying "These toys belong to this boy, they are not yours". I think these "my/mine/Yours" get us in trouble as adults, starting us on the "acquiring path"; it also reinforces the destructive ego that plagues our existence....but I digress...In any case, I am realizing how much of the struggles we've had at various ages are purely developmental. Hanging around other kids at the rez I(it's all kids there!) showed me that there are other kids who scream more, other kids who refuse to go home when it's time to go home, other kids who enjoy throwing rocks in their mommy's, other kids who like to destroy what other kids build...Yes, there are other kids who do all of these, but none like MY Pepe!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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