To Move or To Think?
They can't do both at the same time
They can't do both at the same time
Poster of Original Artwork by Darlene Graeser at
If this poster were a picture of my son, it would be depicting him on his iPod Touch....vigorously attacking the enemies in some crazy video game, or getting his next outrageous idea from a YouTube Video. If some version of "boy thought" going on in that brain of his, he is not moving.
Other times, like this past week, I watch my son play. He tosses a baseball with daddy, not caring which direction the ball goes in relation to the windows around him. He retrieves a ball that falls into the pool, oblivious to the fact that his shoes are still on as he makes his way onto the first few steps of the shallow end.
I also witness him talk excitedly about his day during dinner, with no concept of where his hands and arms are in relation to the glass bowls, plates and food right in front of him.
I can see him motionless as he works on an 800 or 1000-piece puzzle, or go crazy wild as he simply comes downstairs, leaping over the last 2, 3 even 4 steps, knowing I will make him go up again and "come down properly".
After enduring his full-contact, let's-break-mommy's-bones"cuddling" times, and his motionless "I can't hear anything else - were you talking to me?" thinking times, I believe that in a boy's body, or at least my son's body, thinking and moving are completely incompatible! If he's doing one, he certainly cannot possibly be doing the other!
I would love to hear your comments - !
Other times, like this past week, I watch my son play. He tosses a baseball with daddy, not caring which direction the ball goes in relation to the windows around him. He retrieves a ball that falls into the pool, oblivious to the fact that his shoes are still on as he makes his way onto the first few steps of the shallow end.
I also witness him talk excitedly about his day during dinner, with no concept of where his hands and arms are in relation to the glass bowls, plates and food right in front of him.
I can see him motionless as he works on an 800 or 1000-piece puzzle, or go crazy wild as he simply comes downstairs, leaping over the last 2, 3 even 4 steps, knowing I will make him go up again and "come down properly".
After enduring his full-contact, let's-break-mommy's-bones"cuddling" times, and his motionless "I can't hear anything else - were you talking to me?" thinking times, I believe that in a boy's body, or at least my son's body, thinking and moving are completely incompatible! If he's doing one, he certainly cannot possibly be doing the other!
I would love to hear your comments - !
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