Hiding Places

The Gray School is back in business now that summer's pretty much over. Over the summer we played a lot of hide and seek. As I reported, the Lark was getting more enjoyment out of being the seeker, but he was struggling with the being the hider, for several reasons. One reason was that he just couldn't come up with hiding places on his own. He just has a really hard time generating original ideas when asked to do so.

Well, yesterday we had an Easter egg hunt, and I had the Lark hide the eggs. He asked for my help several times, but I just kept hiding my eyes and waited to see what he would do. I sort of expected him to just open up all the eggs and eat all the jelly beans. But after a few minutes I went to take a look--and he had hidden all 8 Easter eggs, in pretty good places too. This is a really big step--that he could come up with the places, that they were all in fact hidden and not just sitting out in the open, that he trusted himself enough to act on his ideas, that he was able to resist eating the jelly beans.... Yay Lark!