Monkey see, monkey do. Since mom always has the laptop out and running a little someone needed one too. We found this cute one at a garage sale for $5 still in great shape. It has a few little games, puzzles, does counting and letter stuff. He adores it.

There’s a math quiz on there that he was messing around with tonight. It shows squares, circles, and triangles as math problems instead of numbers so it’s easier for little ones. For almost an hour last night he sat there counting shapes and typing in the answers, the gears moving at the speed of light as he slowly began to click going from counting to adding. All on his own. no coaching, prompting, forcing, or pushing. I loved it.

He’s doing his own thing and I’m determined not to get in the way. I can still recall being in first grade and finding my own way to do basic addition and being treated like an idiot for not doing it “the right way” it took years to be able to look at math again and not feel like I was too dumb to figure it out. He’s got his own way to get to the right answer and that’s good enough for me.

Plus, he looks so cute sitting next to me with our laptops pulled out. That one’s a mama’s boy.