Of course, it’s just by rote parroting, but it’s cute. I’m doing my homework and she’s feeling whiny, so I sat her on my lap for cuddles. I figured I’d learn this stuff better by saying it out loud, so I explained how to determine a one-to-one function using the horizontal line test, and of course she picked that up right away. Now she’s determining inverse functions! Of the one step variety: f(x) = x+3; f[sup]-1/sup = x-3
My teacher’s gonna wonder why I did 20 repetitions of the easiest questions on the homework, though!
Who deserves a shout out in your home these days?
Nothing specific right now, just good overall progress on all fronts.
Eldest is a college junior progressing towards her chosen career as a HS music director. One B so far, the rest As (DEFINITELY did not get that from dad!) Teaching private piano lessons, accompanying other music students, learning a lot from living in an apartment this year. Most importantly, speaking with her she is really amassing a toolbox that will make her a SUPERLATIVE teacher, giving her a career in a field she loves.
Kid 2 is halfway through his freshman year in aero engineering. Having some trouble with calc (maybe he should call up your 3 y-o), but doing well in other classes, as well as socially.
Kid 3 has her college apps in, which is a good thing as mom and dad are ready for her to get the fuck out of the house! Planning on studying biomed-engineering or molecular bio. Did make-up and hair for her school’s production of Aida, which we are seeing this weekend.
The kid next door (Ok, he’s about 23) comes over to play Scrabble and we were neck and neck and no letters in the bag. He plays a seven-letter word on a triple-word, and of course gets all the points in my rack. 105 points in the last play of the game! :smack: It was hilarious.
**Dinsdale **- three in college at once? Oy. Sometimes I think separating my two by more than a decade was the right way to go! But congratulations and good luck to all!
gigi, that is hilarious! That’s the sort of thing that never pans out when I try it, only by accident!
A timely question. My eldest graduates today with his BA Honours English Specialist degree and then off to Dublin for a Masters in the spring. Woohoo! The younger is third year headed for law . . . I’m very proud (however, he dodged the algebra throughout his schooling and could do with a little tutoring).
My daughter says “hello”. She’s three months old. It’s cute and yet creepy at the same time.
She watches us very intently when we talk to her and you can see her trying to mimic the mouth movements, but “Hello” and “Hi” are the only actual words she can say (apart from “Ah-goo”, which we used to say to her before realizing that she would repeat actual words back). And of course in her mind “Hello” means “Thing to say to Daddy to make Daddy laugh”. But still - she’s going to be a talker, no doubt.
My cats have finally learned that waking me up before my alarm goes off will no longer result in being fed so they have stopped trying. They still manage to wake me up before the alarm on accident sometimes but they don’t scream and yowl when I roll over and go right back to sleep. (Yesterday my cat got a paper bag handle stuck around his neck and was running about trying to escape the bag at 5:30 in the morning…that will wake you up out of a sound sleep very quickly!)
What? I don’t have any kids! Cats deserve bragging too!
My oldest son, who is 10, got the part of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, which is his school play this semester. He’s a pretty talented actor, it seems. I know that Willy Wonka is a very appropriate role for him, haha!
My 7-year old. At our parent-teacher conferences last week we learned that she’s the most advanced reader in the class and in the first half of 1st grade is reading at a late 2nd-grade/early 3rd-grade level. Her teachers said she’s popular, polite and attentive. They were especially impressed that she is as popular as she is since everyone else in the class went to kindergarten together and we just moved to the area over the summer, so she didn’t know anyone before the first day of school. They closed the meeting with “She is such a delight”.
I’ve got my 5yo is individual swimming lessons right now, because she is a stubborn kid and refused to learn to swim all summer. Yesterday, for the first time ever, she laid back in the water! I could never get her to do that, ever, except in the bathtub. Yay! Also her reading is coming along nicely.
8yo is just all around a nice kid who is interested in everything. She’s gotten really helpful, too.
This prompted my latest “Damn kid, you’re a bright one, ain’tcha?” moment.
She loves when I teach her “daddy words”. I’ll occasionally just pick a mundane word she knows, and teach her a synonym. Once she learns it, she refuses to use the “little word”. Now she doesn’t walk down the hall, she walks down the corridor. She loves walking through the shoe department at Wal-Mart, because she can go looking for reflections.
And one of my favorites…whenever I’m out with her and have to wait on a line or anything with anyone wearing a jersey for any of the Giants’ rivals, I nudge her and say “Hey Shayla…tell that man about football”. She immediately pipe up “Go Giants!! They runrunrunrunrunrunrun <accompanied with running motions> and then they go TOUCHDOWN!! <accompanied with diving to the floor>”
We thought our 8 year-old boy was possibly ADHD. We had him evaluated over the course of several weeks. Turns out he’s gifted. IQ is 121 overall. There’s a lot for mom and dad to figure out now.
Oh poo. I’m gonna be taking two courses in collegealgebra next spring, but nobody’s cooing over me. It’s expected of me now, and everybody just takes it for granted.
(Of course, maybe that’s 'cause I shoulda taken 'em last year, but didn’t, and ETA for graduation has now gone hella sketch.)
Despite my being an irresponsible, immature, self-centered, messed up sort of person, my kids actually seem to be turning out to be decent human beings.
Planning on studying biomed-engineering or molecular bio. Did make-up and hair for her school’s production of Aida, which we are seeing this weekend.
