Karen I think mentioned this thing that a lot ofpeople seem to be doing on facebook lately. I thought we could maybe do it here too? We are all on a very diffucult journey whatever stage of it we are at and it is easy to get sucked into the vortex of pressure, failure, bad moods and so on. So how about a seperate and daily thread where we have one thing we are happy about. It can be as small as I really enjoyed my piece of toast this morning, to as big as well the sky is the limit. I think I and some others here need to acknoledge 1 positive thing a day. Even on days where we are sick, the partner is an *kitten*, the kid is the devil and the in laws need to be shot, and work is hell there must be something in all there that was good. A stranger smiled at you as you walked by, you saw a pretty flower, you bent over to tie your shoes without grunting!

Ok I am rambling so here is my Day 1.

I have been doing more 'teaching' with my son Dean. I am a teacher or I was before coming to Canada, and I always noticed that teachers made the pushiest most demanding parents, expecting their kids to read by 3, writing sentences by 4 lol. I decided not to be that parent so I really held off with Dean. Maybe a bit too much actually but anyway I wanted it to be led by him. He went to Pre-K last year and he came out fine, average. But he seemed to miss the little worksheets he used to do. So I dug out some stuff I have and we do some letters, numbers and practice writing each day, lead by him. And I feel like I made the right decision so that is my positive for the day. He likes learning rather than feeling like he has had it forced on him.