[HungarianGypsy]

When I first started to homeschool the wiggling bothered me. I also learned that the movement helped my son think. He would not pay attention without some sort of movement going on.
When he was 7 I put him Boys' Choir. Big mistake! The boys were to stand perfectly still. No matter how much he tried he just could not. He kept blaming himself for not behaving. His attitude made things worse at home, so I pulled him from it and his attitude improved. I had wondered why he was acting out so, since he had taken Improv classes a year earlier was complimented on his behavior. Just the same as his Sunday school classes (after he no longer had the one teacher). I was in his class to hear him give a talk once and saw it. He could not keep still. Oh! He wasn't acting up. He was quiet. But his foot kept moving back and forth..back and forth. I realized anything he does he needs to have some sort of movement.

[fortunecookie]

I guess it makes perfect sense, the improv would not demand perfectly standing still, even welcoming movement. I don't know many choirs that require standing perfectly still anymore, I guess they're still out there. I couldn't do it. My son does the same thing. Paces or stands to rock back and forth whenever anything vocab or memorized needs done. I've gotten used to it, although occasionally the pacing does get me. We come from a long line of fidgeters! So I relax and smile. ;-)