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Melittosphex sapiens Member  |
They did tell them, but didn't make a big deal out of it. I knew they'd be having them some time this term, but not when. The little girl next to kidlet in line this morning knew all about them, but kidlet himself doesn't always pay attention...
*********************** "In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false" - J Forshaw & B Cox. |
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Administrator/Colporteur Member  |
Domi, that's what they did with the standardized tests at our school - which they only did because the Ontario government required them, so they didn't want to make a fuss over them.
__________ AJGraeme "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake." -Barack Obama "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - G.K. Chesterton |
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Dane Cook's Final Horcrux Member |
I think a lot of palces are doing that noe, because no seven-year-old should be getting worried about exams. Quite apart from the fact that SATs are supposed to be testing the school, not the children.
____________________________________________________ tiny ball of rage. hilarious, condensed rage - Snazz I never really lost my virginity... it just sort of eventually wore off - Chris Addison Um... I'm thinking that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell? - T-Rex, qwantz.com Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job. - Brian Clough |
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Melittosphex sapiens Member |
Indeed. They've been quite good about it, and don't appear to be pressuring anyone (partly because they don't think the sats are a good idea for 7-year-olds anyway). The only one who has been excited about it is the parent of The Smartest Child In The Year (an adorable little girl, who is preternaturally good as well as being clever) who rushed up to me after parents' evening and said "[little girl] is 2a! What is kidlet?" And I had absolutely no idea at that point what she was talking about.
*********************** "In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false" - J Forshaw & B Cox. |
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Dane Cook's Final Horcrux Member |
we didn't do any of the sats, except for some reason we did the science one in Year 6, which I suspect was to show off to the other schools more than anything. We did cognative ability tests in about Year 9 for no apparant reason, in which I came top of verbal and bottom of numeracy
 But there was no point to them - they didn't get the results sent home or anything.____________________________________________________ tiny ball of rage. hilarious, condensed rage - Snazz I never really lost my virginity... it just sort of eventually wore off - Chris Addison Um... I'm thinking that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell? - T-Rex, qwantz.com Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job. - Brian Clough |
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Click here! Member  |
My 6-year-old has a new obsession: "tasks". She's constantly whining for me to think of one for her. And as long as I have a stopwatch, she'll do anything.
Today she has already unloaded the dishwasher (4 minutes), taken down the laundry (5 minutes), sorted it and put it into closets (6 minutes). Last night she put her 4-year-old sister to bed, just to prove to me she can do it (pyjama, brushing teeth, bed time story) in 10 minutes. (I get to arbitrarily choose the time limits.) ...And there she goes now, having emptied the washing machine, on her way to hang a fresh batch of laundry. Her goal is 15 minutes total. It's kind of great... but why does it still give me this vague feeling like I'm being a bad parent? *checks stopwatch* She'd better hurry up with those socks. ------------------------------------------------- Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here. |
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member  |
Seems to me, since it was her idea then you can't possibly think that you're a bad parent.
I'm always at a loss when Devlin asks to help me do certain things - I usually have a set way of doing things and it's hard for me to rearrange it so he can help me. And typically we'll get halfway through and he'll wander off. sweet dreams. make waves. find bliss. ~Neil Finn Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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Part-time avant garde shrubbery inspector who breaths fire and lets out a mighty YAHR! Member  |
you know Maeve, I think encouraging them to want to help is fine. My daughter likes to wash dishes by hand. She rarely ever gets them super clean and it has to be redone. But we let her do it anyway because she's proud of herself for helping. I've been teaching her how to make sure they are clean, so its a slow improvement.
Simon walked by when I was sewing my costume skirt and said "Hey, that looks like our tablecloth. Wait, I haven't seen our tablecloth in while." Then he gives me a very pointed look. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Discordian Priestess, Keeper of the Golden Pine-Apple. Has Been Assimilated.  blog or not |
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Graeme's been chipping in around the house a lot lately, to the extent that he often does so without being asked. He gets it wrong more often than he gets it right, but we thank him for trying.
He did help me fix the latticework around the bottom of the porch, holding lattice in place while I stapled it down and he thought that was AWESOME. The staplegun has quite a kick to it. __________ AJGraeme "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake." -Barack Obama "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - G.K. Chesterton |
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That is a very, very good idea.
__________ AJGraeme "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake." -Barack Obama "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - G.K. Chesterton |
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Freelance metaphor inspector Member |
She loved it. After her second bite she even said, "I need to slow down and take nibbles or I'm going to woof it all down in one bite."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  I live for three things: My Girls, football, and live jazz. What do you live for? Follow your bliss. |
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Administrator/Colporteur Member |
Totally know where she's coming from there.
So, what inspired you to expose your child to one of the ultimate junk foods? __________ AJGraeme "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake." -Barack Obama "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - G.K. Chesterton |
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Has no front teeth Member  |
Hey, nations have been fueled by peanut butter! Okay, it's just the Independent Republic of BeeZee but still....
junk food....hmph ______________________ Fandangling across the moony sky, went the Beezee bold as brass, side-saddle she sat, on a big painted bat, shooting moonbeams out of her a(censored)e. ~Joe ________________________ Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy¦ooh ooh ooh the sky's the limit! |
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Freelance metaphor inspector Member |
We had the candy bars in the fridge, leftover from a few weekends ago with the grandparents, making smores after grilling. She asked if she could have a little chocolate as a snack, and the peanut butter was sitting there in a small tupperware from a celery and peanut butter snack she'd munched on. I figured a) she'd already been doing the celery thing, and b) it was there, so why not, and c) maybe it's a bit less like "just candy" with the peanut butter (?)
What the hell, I didn't have any rationale, it was there and it sounded good to me so I got us both some ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I live for three things: My Girls, football, and live jazz. What do you live for? Follow your bliss. |
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Freelance metaphor inspector Member |
M's procrastinating going to bed. She just spent the last 15 minutes cleaning her room. Seriously cleaning. Her shoes and books are put away, she made her bed, put all the odds and ends in her cubbies and such. Now, because we're so proud of her we're letting her stay up another 15 minutes to color on a color book she found while putting her books away.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I live for three things: My Girls, football, and live jazz. What do you live for? Follow your bliss. |
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Administrator/Colporteur Member |
Lovely. Brandon's trying to learn procrastination techniques, but his communication skills are going to have to improve before he'll get really good at it. Graeme's a pro. He will learn.
On the snack/junk food thing, I was as much curious where you got the stuff from as much as anything. I've freewheeled snacks for the boys and comes up with some things that would make a nutritionist blush. __________ AJGraeme "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake." -Barack Obama "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - G.K. Chesterton |
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Freelance metaphor inspector Member |
Well, we don't have much candy in the house between the 'evil' holidays, so her knowing the chocolate was in the fridge is what got the whole ball rolling. Inspiration simply came when she asked for the chocolate and I saw the tupperware of peanut butter from her celery snack on the counter *shrug*
Last weekend we made homemade pizzas and I had one crust left over so I brushed on some melted butter and covered it with sugar and cinnamon and baked it. M thought it was soooo gooooood  she didn't know there was such thing as sweet pizza for snacks. We nibbled on them all week until the final left overs were too hard to really enjoy  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I live for three things: My Girls, football, and live jazz. What do you live for? Follow your bliss. |
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badger, yahr, badger, escher Member ![Picture of nonsleeper[chickie]](http://pb.xanga.com/bb/c7/bbc777a647c2f77a63f9d5b900c9e2e315735494.jpg?v=9 "Picture of nonsleeper[chickie]") |
Sweet! I'm totally getting a stopwatch when A is about that age! __________________________________ Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics.  |
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Melittosphex sapiens Member |
Conversation between two 7-year-olds in line with kidlet for class this morning. Little girl #1 had been telling me all about how her dad was going to Kurdistan to build a house. Little girl #2 had been listening to us talk.
Little girl #2: Pakistan? Little girl #1: No, Kurdistan. Little girl #2: Pakistan? Pakistan? Little girl #1: No, KURDISTAN. My dad's going to Kurdistan. Little girl #2: Good, because there's a war in Pakistan. *********************** "In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false" - J Forshaw & B Cox. |
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Neil Gaiman www.NeilgaimanBoard.com www.NeilgaimanBoard.com The World's End The World's End not at all to do with Gaiman, or any of you
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