Pop quiz!
February 25, 2008If your child can have y, can he have y+1? Y+1 with a cookie? With two cookies? Why not? Why is Y okay but Y+1 not okay? Providing supporting arguments for your answers on a separate sheet of paper, if necessary.
If a nonsense phrase is sung repeatedly at X intervals, and the listener will go insane after a certain number of minutes, how many minutes prior to that point should the nonsense-phrase-singing be halted? Keeping in mind that maybe the nonsense-phrase-singing is fun to the singer and anyway it's keeping him out of your hair? And how do you stop the singing, anyway? Here's some graph paper for you.
Can your child have some candy during the movie? If you don't want to discuss it now, when do you want to discuss it? When can you have the candy discussion? If you're going to have that discussion in an hour, why can't you have it now? Why is an hour better than now? What time is it now? Is it almost time for that discussion? Why are you running away?
If you enjoy an activity and know your child would also enjoy it, your child will refuse to participate in it or discuss it, ever, for eternity. Explain the logic of this statement.
EXTRA CREDIT: Your child is finally back at school, and now you miss him. Make sense of that one, if you can.
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The answers are:1. B2. Purple3. The blue train will get to Chicago 30 minutes before the red train will get to Peoria.4. True
And, the answer to the bonus question is: Because more than likely, your son will have a child of his own one day. >:)
Occasionally, I have to say, "I can't have this conversation -- I didn't go to law school. Just do it because I asked you to. Thanks."
B. Apply iPod earphones to yourself or the singer as required for the situation.
C. If you need an immediate answer to a question I am not prepared to answer at this time, the answer is no. If I ask you to wait for an answer and you pester by asking again, the answer is no. If you wait patiently, you know you will get candy in the movies because Mama likes a little chocolate with her popcorn and all that sugar and salt need some Sour Patch Kids to go along.
D. Just wait until your child turns this back around claiming, when he is a teenager, that you are horrible because you NEVER let him engage in this activity while growing up.
The complexities of parenting in a neatly tied little blog post. A difficult task, and yet managed so eloquently.
Hating math,Joe
B. Apply iPod earphones to yourself or the singer as required for the situation.
C. If you need an immediate answer to a question I am not prepared to answer at this time, the answer is no. If I ask you to wait for an answer and you pester by asking again, the answer is no. If you wait patiently, you know you will get candy in the movies because Mama likes a little chocolate with her popcorn and all that sugar and salt need some Sour Patch Kids to go along.
D. Just wait until your child turns this back around claiming, when he is a teenager, that you are horrible because you NEVER let him engage in this activity while growing up.
But seriously--how have you managed to make math fun? Seriously, great post!
Last night when he was supposed to be going to sleep, we could hear him playing with his June doll (Little Einsteins; she sings the tune from "Blue Danube" when you press her belly), and my first thought was: that doll's coming out of there in 5, 4, 3, . . . BUT THEN, he started singing the last "la LA" of each phrase with her, and I melted at the utter cuteness. The end.
Awesome post. Thanks!
Also go to mimi smartypants at smartypants.diaryland.com. She invented a secret hand gesture with her daughter that solved a singing issue. She's cleverly smart.
B) Phrase should be stopped upon first repitition, possibly by disctracting the youngster with explosives, or politics.
C) Only if he's going to grandma house after the movie.
D) Because kids are crazy lunatics, designed to make us question our every move until you grab them up and kiss them all over their little faces, in front of their friends!
BONUS: Because they are so DARN CUTE when they sleep....
I'm really tempted to give you advice anyway, but I'm sure you're not interested. Besides, children don't tend to like me much. I could tell you how to make children not like you - email me!
:)
Even if they are just five.
However, I agree with Karen's answers.