Imagination Stories

Jane has taken to creating “Imagination Stories” with Wolf. It usually consists of a back and forth of short story passages that they each add as their imagination dictates. The result is creative silliness that leaves both of them laughing hysterically. Recently, Jane mixed it up a little and had Wolf tell his own story while she wrote it down. The result is…

“Adventuring in the Store", as Dictated by Wolf Hermstedt 

Once upon a time, there was a mommy penguin, a little penguin (who was sleeping), and a spider monkey. Mommy penguin went with the spider monkey to the store to buy milk. When they came back home, the little penguin was gone because HE had gone to the store to buy milk. He did not know that the mommy penguin and the spider monkey were back at the house drinking all the milk. And then, the craziest thing happened! The mommy penguin and the spider monkey disappeared to look for the little penguin. They found the little penguin at the store taking the milk, but it was the wrong one! They said, "Put that milk down! We already have milk!" But they tricked him, because they had already drunk it all up. When they came home, the little penguin knew they had tricked him. So the little penguin thought the spider was a bad guy for tricking him and he punched him. The spider monkey didn't punch him back. And that's how the little penguin knew the spider monkey was trying to keep him safe. So he said sorry. 

The End. 

Parental Note: It’s very interesting to discover from where he has pulled story elements. He and Jane just started reading “Unfortunately the Milk” which centers around a father’s adventure on his way to get milk. A day or two prior to the creation of this story. I had an incident in a store where Wolf ran away from me and hid. It was a little scary at one point. He received a consequence that did not include anything like the punching that happened in the story above. I threw away the birthday cake he made in school (the appropriateness of this consequence can be discussed in another post). So the story does seem to reflect that he was processing the need to be safe and not run away and also the effect of the consequence.