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Parental brag thread
Topic Started: Feb 1 2013, 11:53 AM (164 Views)
jon-nyc
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Yesterday the boy grabbed a note that Rachel had written to the nanny and read it aloud, at normal speed:

"Dear Lidia, Would you please make some mac & cheese for [boy-nyc]? Thanks, Rachel".

It was really cool to see because you figure there's always some element of memorization going on when he reads from books he's had read to him 100 times.

Also, in the bath tub we have magnetic letters that he likes to spell words with. He was spelling names of friends from school, and spelled "Clemetine" by himself. He missed the 'n' before the 't', but he got the silent 'e'.

Not bad for a 3 year old.
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Luke's Dad
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Bravo! So he's got your wife's smarts in addition to looks!
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Axtremus
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Cool! :thumb:

Has he started saying things like "mortgage backed securities" and "collateralized debt obligations" yet? I've always wanted to hear little toddlers say those things. :D
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brenda
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Terrific! Keep it up and be prepared to get him into the special advanced classes he'll need. This is not always as easy as it should be.
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Amanda
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That's GREAT!
Keep making opportunities available to him, some are "things", some are experiences. Like those magnetic letters are very helpful (cheap and they work on the fridge too), writing extra clear when he might see it (a parental scribble would have made this feat impossible), "accidental" pauses while reading books (frustrated kids will often fill in the gaps - sounding out the words. And right you are, NOT books he's apt to have already memorized).

Not just reading opportunities, either. There are a whole lot of clever "educational" toys - and "educational" does NOT have to be a dirty word, synonymous with boring. My belief is that it's WAY important to make things available, so as to let kids discover their talents and interests. WIthout exposure, they can't find out what they enjoy and are good at.

Much development, depends greatly on early exposure - raises the ceiling on how much kids can excel and in what.
Also true of physical coordination/talents. There are all kinds of intelligence. I'm sure professional/highly talented skiers, skaters, dancers, etc., will have had their little ones out on the slopes (or whatever) early on. (I don't even need to go into the benefits of early music and instruments education!).

The exposure doesn't have to be a big deal. One of the best things my parents (both artists) ever did for me was bringing me to live sketch groups from when I was about 6. Once, the model snatched up her gown at the end of a break, indignantly complaining that my parents had embarrassed her just to save on baby-sitting money. Dad said proudly: "She's here because she's an artist" handing her my sketch pad.

One of MY greatest compliments ever (I remember it), was from that model. After returning my book without a word, she just dropped her robe again and stepped back up on the podium.

Getting that early training was invaluable.
Edited by Amanda, Feb 1 2013, 02:50 PM.
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Mikhailoh
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They have such amazing capacity to learn at this point, don't they?

What is fun is when you think they have missed something and it comes out later - they got it, they were just processing it.

When my daughter was about 18 months, 2, something like that Janet slipped while helping the dog and exclaimed 'OH sh!t!'. No reaction. About two weeks later daughter was running up and down the balcony hallway over the dining room after dinner happily exclaiming 'OH sh!t! OH sh!t! OH sh!t!' over and over again. She just hadn't found anyplace she wanted to use it yet.

We are at the dinner table still, trying our level best not to respond to it and therefore reinforce it, all the time wanting to bust a gut laughing.
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Dewey
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Great stuff, Jon!
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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Mark
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Awesome! :thumb:
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