Last night Sonya wanted to play Michael at backgammon as part of our parental attempts to show Michael that there was value in interacting with other humans and not just spending all of his time on Playstation. Michael put on his uber arogant mode and said he didn't feel like it because she was too easy. (Michael I might add is quite good at Backgammon).
Not to be intimidated Sonya said "Rack em up boy". Unfortunately Michael proceeded to "cream" his mother, all the while keeping up a running commentary about the stupidity of her moves. "Lucky first time, put them up again"said Sonya only for the result to be the same.
Ok Plan B - move to checkers!
Again Michael kept up a constant chatter of whisles and popping noises that seemed to make sense to him but not to us. No amount of stern admonishments would shut him up. Clucking with disdain he once again proceeded to comprehensively beat his mother 2-0.
Clearly it was time for bed and despite his howls that it wasn't time we packed him off for his shower. There is only so much one can take!
I was saying to Sonya that if he behaves like this at school very soon some older boy will beat him up to teach him a lesson. We couldn't help thinking that this couldn't come a moment too soon.
The irony is that we are fairly sure Michael behaves quite differently at school. He seems to really enjoy school and takes it quite seriously. He even gets frustrated when the other kids distract him in class. Clearly a case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde!
Have you tried getting him involved in backgammon online?
ReplyDeleteWe tried getting Michael into online backgammon. He tried it a few times and enjoyed it. I just think that it can't compete with the lure of PSP especially now that he has discovered the pleasures of online game play. Perhaps we may have better luck in a year or two
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