It's amazing how fast kids adapt to new environment and changes. Primero has been in her new school and she made some friends and got the hang of her teacher's schedule. There’s a girl in her after school program that has the same name as Secondo and she really likes Primero. She hugs Primero when they 1st see each other and said "You are finally here !!!" and showed lots of excitement where as Primero barely says hi to her with her anonymous waive of the hand. It must be her personality because no matter how hubby and I coached her, she's persistent about her own way of greeting people which is non-verbal and that pushes me over the edge some times. All I asked is that she says hi back to those who say hi to her. Mom in on me on this one but I've tried many different ways and no solution yet.
Piano is going well, her teacher (E) praised her weekly and that seems to motivate her to practice more this week. There's a boy who's lesson is ahead of hers and he hadn’t been practicing so they are at a standstill for at least 3 weeks. E spoke with his dad about stopping the lesson if he doesn’t learn the song by next week. Primero was there when this happened so I reiterated the fact that if she doesn't practice, she could be kicked out of the Miss E piano school. Her next assignment is to learn "Ode to Joy" and "Are you sleeping". Learning new songs seems to get easier for her compared to 2 weeks ago.
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I can relate to Primero. No matter how hard you try, she'll still do things her way. You can remember that's how I was. :)
It's funny how the genes jumped from uncle to niece. Any word of wisdom on how to get her to say hello back to people?
Nothing will work, unless you get her to realize that it's something that she wants to do. The anal gene is strong and it won't back down to pain, punishment, or bribery. :) I'm so proud of her.
Oh, I just remembered something that might work. If you show her an instance someone who doesn't say hello and she sees that it's wrong or awkward, then she will change. She'll realize that she doesn't want to be like the other person. That's kind of a hard scenario though.
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