Week One 1st Class

So Nick and I went to our first Brain Highways class yesterday.  And of course we were late.  I felt really bad because they had to call me to make sure we were on the way.  Yes I seriously need to get my brain in order.

When we first stepped in everyone was already doing a lot of activities that is supposed to stimulate the brain.  There are about 16 stations that you go to do the activity and switch stations every 30 seconds or so.  Well it felt that fast.  Then the class would sit aroud Nancy and a tv to learn more about our brain and our thoughts and to watch a few short videos about our brains.  Then we would go back to the activities and then back to site and watch videos.  Then the kids did a little creeping and then we were given kind of a pep talk and our homework and challenges for this week.  Class ended up being about an hour long.

One of the challenges that Nancy gave us was to change our reactions or change our yucky highways that we have built.  Now let me tell you yelling and screaming is daily routine in our house.  It is a yucky highway and everytime I yell and scream I am thinking in my head, "why am I screaming?"  Even though I know it is not helpful in anyway I continue to do it.  So this challenge will be hard.  Getting rid of negative thinking will be very hard for me because it unfortunately comes so naturally.

Next the physical brain building exercises will be hard to keep up with.  30 minutes of creeping on the floor is quite a long time especially when one minutes seems so long.  And we need to do 30 minutes a DAY!  Okay maybe 30 minutes doesn't seem long, but we did our first home session today and it was long.  Then we have to do so many of the patterns (movements that baby's do while developing their brains) each day.  I don't know if I can handle it all!  Lol!!

Can I tell you I'm already overwhelmed.  Every week they send e-mails with links to our week's information.   I didn't watch all the videos or listen to all the audio that were included in the e-mails or read all the PDFs.  I already feel bad about myself.  Even while I'm listening to the audio I tend to surf the internet and not really pay attention to what is being said.  Sigh...it is going to be a tough 8 weeks.  Lol!