Today Matthew related that he no longer chooses to play in the Home Living center at school. This used to be his very favorite center and the one he always hoped to get to first! A limited number of students can be at each center so he always hoped that there was room for him. But, today he says,"The girls there try to rule me and are bossy. They say 'Matthew do this.' And there aren't any other boys there. Most other boys don't like to play there. They don't like Home Living, and they don't want to go there when I ask them, so I don't want to go there any more."
Maybe I shouldn't be, but I am disappointed that for the first time (at least the first time he's voiced to me) he is choosing an activity that he doesn't really like just because of his classmates. He said that today he went to "the little round things with holes that you connect with sticks, but I didn't really like them, but I went there because Tripp went there." What?? At 5 years old he's already following people to activities and he already doesn't go to Home Living because "boys don't do that" ??? hmmm.
I have a feeling we're in for a rough next 20-ish years.....
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