On good enough being… good enough.
When we make Pictellos we’re very thoughtful about them. Those stories about death and dying took weeks to make, and consults with our SLP. We consider the phrasing we use (familiar phrases where possible), the pictures that will grab his attention, the complexity of each sentence and each page, the intonation or songs and the rhyming.
Except when we aren’t!
I made this one Pictello early on before we had learned what to do and not to do. It was after a doctor’s visit. The sentences are super long and complicated. There’s many per page. The whole story is unclear. I grabbed lots of stock photos. I did sing it to a song but there’s no rhyming or even consideration of a lyric and melody that sounds pleasing to the ear.
But by the time I got all that feedback it was too late so we kept it on his Pictello.
And (eventually) A- loooooved it. He’d grab words and phrases from it, playing it over and over. Today he sang a whole long complicated page! All 3 sentences of it!
Maybe sometimes our mistakes will be the best thing ever!
(Note - the images from these Pictello pages are all stock photos or from Google images! I don’t share photos of A-).
