Gearing up for week 4

I hope to see a full class for the beginning of week 4 Tuesday 1st March. Spent most of the weekend staying out of the heat and and trying to COMMUNICATE effectively with my son who likes to do things his way. Still with a bit of shared ideas we spent the majority of our time together in fun. It's basically a trade off between what he wants and what I think he wants, which of course does not always make for a contented toddler. I think talking and sharing with kids is a great way to see how effective your communication skills are considering that listening and talking need to be short, precise and directed.

On a completely different note I watched a documentary called 'Teenage Kentucky Vampires'  which was about a group of young people in Kentucky USA who lived their teens and early twenties as 'Vampires' in an extremely conservative small town. It showed how the locals would not hire any of the group's members for work and hassle them when they came into town. They lived in their own way quite happily and contented and formed a tight nit group who really got 'into' the Vampire culture. Their parents had kicked them out of home so they were drawn to each other as the 'spoke' the same language. Unfortunately one former member of the group was an unstable violent person who ended up on Death Row in Florida for a double murder. But because he was loosely associated with the Kentucky Vampires pressure from local towns people and officials forced the group to break up and consequently they drifted away from the town and into the bigger cities. It was just an interesting documentary showing how people in groups interact and enjoy each others company but because they were part of what was considered an 'extreme' cult their group dynamic was destroyed by the former member's crime that had nothing to do with their Vampire group. The town would not or could not communicate with the group because they (town members) assumed that everyone in the group was like the criminal on Death Row, which was of course totally untrue.