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Okay, this kid (4 year old boy) is extremely mature for his age...I'm talking, when it storms and all the other kids are screaming scared to death of the thunder, he starts explaining the difference between "heat lightning" and "static lightning"...Seriously...
Anyway, as mature is he is in some aspects, he is lacking in others. He can spell his first and last name, his friends' names, etc, BUT he can't keep his mind on his own business. If I say "Johnny, please walk in the house, we need to run outside." he says, "Yep, that's right Johnny, you only run outside. We can't run in the house. Outside is where we run.." on and on and on and on until I tell him to take care of himself.
So today, after lunch, he starts walking out of the dining room to get his hands washed. I was calling kids one at a time, and my assistant was watching the others. This dcb was walking out the dining room and BANG!! ran right into the wall...Uhh.....really??? It's a bright yellow wall that's been there for 2.5 years (since he started). He said "Well, didn't see you there wall!"
We have another table in the front room for art projects and puzzles. I say (after checking on him of course) "____, please watch where you're going, you could really get hurt running into walls like that." And I promise you, two seconds later, he runs into the table. It's totally accidental, not him being silly...because him being silly is VERY VERY obvious.
So I check on him AGAIN, and we finally get his hands washed. Walks out of the bathroom and runs into the table again!!! I walk him to the line, speechless...We get outside, he gets on a bike, rides perfectly fine. We have new water bottles so when they get hot they don't have to go inside, they just get them out there. Well, he got hot. So he rode his bike over to the water bottles and RAN OVER A KID.
Is he seriously not paying attention to where he's going, or does it sound like something else is going on??? He hasn't eaten anything different than usual (we have a cycle menu), he doesn't act like anything's wrong (other than running into random things...), and he doesn't even cry when he slams his head/body into large objects (like the wall!!).
I can't help but feel sorry for him, it can't be fun to slam into things like he's been doing...But good grief, you'd think if he really just isn't paying attention, he'd learn to after that!!
What can I do to teach this kid to pay attention to what he's doing?? Telling him doesn't work..And he rides his bike and watches everything BUT where he's going. I've made him put the bike up. Doesn't phase him a bit. He just says, "Okay! I'll go play in the sand!" and is fine with it!!! So any advice is helpful...thanks!
Anyway, as mature is he is in some aspects, he is lacking in others. He can spell his first and last name, his friends' names, etc, BUT he can't keep his mind on his own business. If I say "Johnny, please walk in the house, we need to run outside." he says, "Yep, that's right Johnny, you only run outside. We can't run in the house. Outside is where we run.." on and on and on and on until I tell him to take care of himself.
So today, after lunch, he starts walking out of the dining room to get his hands washed. I was calling kids one at a time, and my assistant was watching the others. This dcb was walking out the dining room and BANG!! ran right into the wall...Uhh.....really??? It's a bright yellow wall that's been there for 2.5 years (since he started). He said "Well, didn't see you there wall!"
We have another table in the front room for art projects and puzzles. I say (after checking on him of course) "____, please watch where you're going, you could really get hurt running into walls like that." And I promise you, two seconds later, he runs into the table. It's totally accidental, not him being silly...because him being silly is VERY VERY obvious.
So I check on him AGAIN, and we finally get his hands washed. Walks out of the bathroom and runs into the table again!!! I walk him to the line, speechless...We get outside, he gets on a bike, rides perfectly fine. We have new water bottles so when they get hot they don't have to go inside, they just get them out there. Well, he got hot. So he rode his bike over to the water bottles and RAN OVER A KID.
Is he seriously not paying attention to where he's going, or does it sound like something else is going on??? He hasn't eaten anything different than usual (we have a cycle menu), he doesn't act like anything's wrong (other than running into random things...), and he doesn't even cry when he slams his head/body into large objects (like the wall!!).
I can't help but feel sorry for him, it can't be fun to slam into things like he's been doing...But good grief, you'd think if he really just isn't paying attention, he'd learn to after that!!
What can I do to teach this kid to pay attention to what he's doing?? Telling him doesn't work..And he rides his bike and watches everything BUT where he's going. I've made him put the bike up. Doesn't phase him a bit. He just says, "Okay! I'll go play in the sand!" and is fine with it!!! So any advice is helpful...thanks!
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and has a memory like a steel trap (borderline eidetic). But common sense, paying attention, etc...yeah not so much. He seems to wander about with his head in the clouds half the time. 
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