Bath Games

After trying a variety of techniques for washing Judah’s hair, we have settled on the simple one of having Judah look straight up in the air while I pour water on his hair. Simple seeming, anyway – it usual takes repeated tellings and many reminders to get him to look way up and to keep looking up so that he doesn’t duck his head down right after I poured a cup of water on his head.\par
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To help this process along I invented a game where I told him to look up at “the sky.”\’c3\’82\’c2\~ I ask him “do airplanes go in the sky?” and “do helicopters go in the sky?” and occasionally I sneak one in like “do elephants go in the sky?” Having him listening carefully for the trick question helps distract him from being afraid of getting water on his face.\par
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Tonight, I asked him if “horses go in the sky?” He said, chuckling at my deceptiveness, “Noooo… horses go on the carpet!”