Nathan Helps Himself

He is one heck of a guy, my Nathan.
In trying to get the right and left side of the brain to connect there are some exercises that can be done.
One is to throw a ball from your left hand to your right hand and obviously keep going as long as you are able.
It is basically any kind of exercise that calls for using both sides of your body.
So, today we tried doing the wax on, wax off that was done on The Karate Kid.
Boy, that isn't as easy as it looked and he had considerable trouble doing it. But, he kept trying.
We started off with me moving his arms but then he tried it on his own for a while.
Practise will make perfect and we will try it again tomorrow.
I love that Nathan keeps trying, even if the task is difficult.
He is doing the same with his speech. He is taking opportunities to ask you to name things and watching the way that your mouth forms the words, then he will go off and repeat them to himself until he is more sure that he is doing it right.
He is speaking with the intonation of someone who doesn't hear well but I have had his hearing checked twice and it has tested ok.
After a while he came to me and asked me for "help".
He had a pair of rollerblades in his hands and he wanted to try them on.
He has been trying to get into the girl's rollerskates since they got them but his feet are too big.
These are just the right size and he walked along the carpet with them pretty well. He was occasionally chortling to himself.
When he got to the kitchen which has lino, that was when his trouble started.
As he tried to cross it, his feet went out from underneath him and down he went, "ouch" he said. "I hurt"
Then he got back up and tried again and tried again and tried again.
Nathan made the round from the end of the loungeroom to the end of the dining room 4 times before finally calling it quits.
We laughed and I helped him up a couple of times but for the most part, he figured out how to do it himself.
Rollerblading is a great exercise for left and right brain as it deals with balance and concentrating on what you are doing especially for a beginner.
It was almost as if today, he was looking for things to help himself when he knew that I was trying to help him.
He even came out to the kitchen and danced with us voluntarily.
He repeated words in the songs.
He mimiced faces.
He was just absolutely brilliant and tomorrow is his NAET treatment so wonderful.
We will see what happens then.
Later