I taught him something

Typically Benny learns in this mysterious osmotic way. He kind of absorbs the information or skill without my input. In fact, I purposefully refrain frome explaining things, many times, just to give him more of a challenge.

He's been blazing ahead in his "Time and Money" workbook which he loves. Today it moved to telling time on the half hour and he *didn't know how to do it.* I actually had to teach him how to make the hand between the 2 and the 3 or how if the minute hand points to six it means 30 minutes, etc. Somewhere in this house I have one of those learning clocks where you move the hands around and it tells you the time below. I at least have SOME CLOCK SOMEWHERE that I could use to give an example. But I could not find it. So I taught it to him, and he learned it!

IT WAS ALMOST A TOTALLY NEW EXPERIENCE FOR BOTH OF US. *cackle* He actually paid attention and understood what I said and then applied it to the workbook and put down correct answers. I know this is what I'm supposed to be doing all the time, but I actually feel PROUD TODAY because I was able to teach my child something he didn't already know.