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As I said, the numbers say that it is considerably less unlikely than the names might. (No offense intended.)
Yep. My husband and I played Blokus and Set with our kids all the time because those two games were highly touted as cognitive boosting games. With time the kids were actually better at the SET card game than we were. It was sort of disturbing.
They have nothing to do with education.
If they did, they wouldn't be administered to small children, who have none to speak of.
Yep. My husband and I played Blokus and Set with our kids all the time because those two games were highly touted as cognitive boosting games. With time the kids were actually better at the SET card game than we were. It was sort of disturbing.
We play memory games and read all the time. Every day, multiple times.
We also let them do "grown up things" like talk to adults instead of adults asking me their age, I say to ask my girls and then big conversations ensue... they do much of the shopping, task oriented stuff that they love, like paying and getting the reciept and organizing the cart after getting the items... letting them think theings out and come to their own conclusions and then supporting them and guiding them towards the appropriate conclusion... **** like that. Our girls are like a few other kids around here. Leaders. Both. One is introverted, the other extroverted. Both leaders and confident. Martial arts starts soon! Confidence builder.
A coworker once had to go to his daugher's school and deal with a situation that involved his "little girl" and her martial arts training. Seems a classmate reached out and grabbed her boob, and she broke the kid's arm throwing him to the ground. When I say little girl, she was a teen, but fairly small for her age. Think of the embarrassment for the boy! Getting his ass whupped by a scrawny little girl...
Our little granddaughter in AZ is one that adults can converse with. We saw early on that she can talk the ears off an elephant, and can be quite funny as well. She was diagnosed with an inoperable, but very slow growing, brain tumor just before turning 7, and we had people sending cards, calling, etc. that we didn't even know she knew. Staff at her school (other than her teacher) called to check on her. She has spoken at many fund raising events, such as one for Phoenix Childrens Hospital, sharing the dias with the mayor when a new wing was being announced.
Kids can be amazing....
Wow, she sounds amazing!
How is she doing. Does cyberknife technology give her a better prognosis?
The doctors won't say.....she is on chemo and tolerating it well. Will likely go on radiation therapy when she gets a little older. One of her doctors has a girl in college with a very similar condition, so we know that he will be up on the newest and best treatments available. But with the tumor intertwined around other brain tissue, there isn't much hope for a surgical solution.
Here is her blog...Makenzie Moore
She gets another MRI next week to see what may have happened when her counts were too low to have chemo for several weeks. We hope for the best for her but fear for her future. All we can do is have faith in the skills of her doctors...and in God's will....
I hope she can beat this. It sounds like she has the right attitude to beat it.
A coworker once had to go to his daugher's school and deal with a situation that involved his "little girl" and her martial arts training. Seems a classmate reached out and grabbed her boob, and she broke the kid's arm throwing him to the ground. When I say little girl, she was a teen, but fairly small for her age. Think of the embarrassment for the boy! Getting his ass whupped by a scrawny little girl...
Our little granddaughter in AZ is one that adults can converse with. We saw early on that she can talk the ears off an elephant, and can be quite funny as well. She was diagnosed with an inoperable, but very slow growing, brain tumor just before turning 7, and we had people sending cards, calling, etc. that we didn't even know she knew. Staff at her school (other than her teacher) called to check on her. She has spoken at many fund raising events, such as one for Phoenix Childrens Hospital, sharing the dias with the mayor when a new wing was being announced.
Kids can be amazing....
sounds like judo, I did a bit of that for a few months in 65, and the best thing I learned was how to fall without hurting myself. Comes in handy when walking on ice....All I have done so far is to teach my 5 year old to throw another kid off balance by pushing/grabbing their shoulder and/or hip areas. She had to use it once with a boy that was angry/frustrated and pushing her a bit. She grabbed the kid (who was much bigger than her) his shirt at his shoulder... she did the push back and then yank forward and down move. Boy gets practically flipped down to ground and his mom freaked, but a couple of other moms were impressed and knew that the boy was in the wrong. Oh well. We do what we can for our kids and teach them to be good too.
sounds like judo, I did a bit of that for a few months in 65, and the best thing I learned was how to fall without hurting myself. Comes in handy when walking on ice....
The push pull works, timed right. You use their own motions and muscles against them.
....reminds me of a "little" girl in first grade I heard about. When she wanted to kiss a boy, he might as well stand still and take it. If he didn't, she would throw him down on the ground, sit on him, and kiss him. Nowadays she would be getting in trouble for that. Back then, it was just funny.
All I have done so far is to teach my 5 year old to throw another kid off balance by pushing/grabbing their shoulder and/or hip areas. She had to use it once with a boy that was angry/frustrated and pushing her a bit. She grabbed the kid (who was much bigger than her) his shirt at his shoulder... she did the push back and then yank forward and down move. Boy gets practically flipped down to ground and his mom freaked, but a couple of other moms were impressed and knew that the boy was in the wrong. Oh well. We do what we can for our kids and teach them to be good too.
Tucker Case said:When you see the little kid who can name all fifty states at 2 years old, I guarantee you that kid didn't lick that information off of the ground. She was TUAGHT it by sombody.
I'm sorry, but :laughat: ROFLMFAO!!!!
:lamo:2rofll:
I know, I'm terrible. :2funny:
I love these discussions.
/ wipes eyes.
I'm the queen of editing typos.
I don't think it's all that funny. :3oops:
Not nearly as funny as the sheer amount of Einsteins I've apparently been hanging with online.
Most people in the middle and upper middle class develop social skills by going to school. Some communities do not have the means to provide this end for themselves (common in the early 20th century).
If a community lacked the facilities or the personnel, parents with means could send their children to a private school. Those without the means could not. As such, illiterace was, and to a certain degree still is, rampant in the lower half of society.
The wealthy can afford good education; however, money is often more a burden than anything else. Weathly parents often stifle their children's attempts at being social (especially where reationships are involved) and thus those kids do not learn proper socialization skills.
They become rich and snobby because they do not understand the norms of socializing, which leads them to be offended by everything that they do not understand to be be "friendly" or at least within their definition of friendly.
The lower half of society has the opposite problem in that regard. Parents are often working two or more jobs just to make ends meet. As a result, they are not home to intrude in their children's relationships. Thier children tend to find affection and kindship among thier peers to fill the void... even when they shouldn't.
:mrgreen:
Yeah. I was in a juvenile psychiatric facility.
Many poor people and minorities only take IQ tests in prison, or in preparation for trial. I also consider this "under duress", and I believe it effects the test's efficacy, and therefore the reliability of the statistics.
Come on.
"She was TUAGHT it by sombody." is very funny.
The caps, the misspelling, the sentence structure, the second misspelling, the sheer irony. It all comes together.
Maybe I just have a perverse sense of humor.
That's kind of funny too, though, when you think about it.
That they'd lie about it, I mean.
I think we each, deep down, know exactly how smart we are.
IQ tests and other standardized methods of quantifying intelligence are more art than science.
For starters, they don't work very well on unwilling subjects.
I'm the queen of editing typos.
One of the most overlooked episodes during the 1987 collapse of Biden's campaign was a snippet of footage captured by C-Span in which the Delaware senator, in response to a question about where he went to law school and what sort of grades he received, delivered this classic line: "I think I have a much higher IQ than you do."
My IQ is 230 and my penis is 15 inches long.
I can make anything true on the interwebz.
Anyone have a clue what Biden,s IQ is? Just askin. :mrgreen:
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