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NinjaMomma
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03 Aug 2010, 11:21 pm

willaful wrote:

NinjaMomma wrote:

I don't know if my son qualifies, but when he'd rather watch documentaries on construction equipment and trains than watch cartoons (just now turned 4), and I had to use the construction equipment to teach him shapes and colors because he had zero interest in anything else. When he was 3 he could tell you what everything was and what it did, even knew what an octogon was, but didn't know any colors or any basic shapes.

Heh. I was just doing a cryptoquiz with my son -- I thought he'd be into it because the subject was shapes. He had trouble thinking up "triangle," but was quick to see "heptagon" and "sphere."

mine said oval this morning. I don't remember ever showing him what an oval was.

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03 Aug 2010, 11:49 pm

PenguinMom wrote:

When your 4 year old find this on you tube and it becomes her new favorite video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1_uez5W ... re=related

Yes, we now have the full set. There really is a nursery rhyme explaining DNA.

oh wow, nicee :lol:

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06 Aug 2010, 6:47 pm

When your 8 year old gets a scratch and informs you that they need a glass of milk for protein to repair the "damage". :lol:

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10 Aug 2010, 4:45 pm

when your daughter and you are sitting in the same room , each on their own laptops, instead of verbally asking a question, she instant messages you to ask her question

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10 Aug 2010, 5:35 pm

creepycrawly36 wrote:

when your daughter and you are sitting in the same room , each on their own laptops, instead of verbally asking a question, she instant messages you to ask her question

Can't tell you how many times I've experienced this with my husband. Both ways.

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10 Aug 2010, 5:49 pm

yeah we normally have a pretty quiet household, we tend to text or instant message each other, it usually only gets verbal (loud) when we are having a discussion

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13 Aug 2010, 2:10 pm

When my son was 5? 6? we would go to the library and go straight to the encyclopedia section and he would check out one at a time starting with "A" and read it through and loved every minute of it. He used to read ANY fact book -even on obscure subjects - he has sort of grown out of it but now at age 13 he still has 2 or 3 books he is reading at any given time - thank goodness for paperbackswap and the library or we'd be bankrupt trying to keep him in books.
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23 Dec 2011, 3:06 pm

You show him today's XKCD strip about Xeno's Advent calender and he starts writing a Python program to calculate everything that would be on it.

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23 Dec 2011, 4:37 pm

Your child buys 20 sided fuzzy dice to hang from the car mirror.

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23 Dec 2011, 7:39 pm

When all your daughter wants for Chistmas are geodes.

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23 Dec 2011, 8:06 pm

After reading Manga Shakespeare's As You Like It, your son gets you at breakfast with Jaques's "Ducdame" joke. Little *&%$* - both my husband and I were IN that play, and we totally fell for it.

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23 Dec 2011, 9:20 pm

When your daughter thinks telling her classmates at ceramics class about an episode of America's Dirtiest Jobs in which Mike ate leeches is a good topic of conversation.

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23 Dec 2011, 10:24 pm

When your five year old gets a set of human xray slides for Christmas from a family friend and he exclaims, "Beth knows ALL the stuff I like!"

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24 Dec 2011, 12:24 am

When he completes the "honey do list"
When he makes his own toys, and fix's the broken ones
When he goes to the last page and does the most difficult assignments first

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24 Dec 2011, 5:43 am

When he's only 4 1/2 but he constantly complains he is 'not learning enough science in school'.

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24 Dec 2011, 8:29 pm

When his favorite YouTube videos are all about academic subjects (at age 3.)

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