Both my DD's were working with "Perler Beads", and DD10 created a design so that a white bead sat next to a clear bead with rainbow colored beads in a half circle around the clear bead. She started a information session about how the clear bead was acting as prism creating a rainbow effect, and DD12 just got cranky because she was being "crafty" and didn't want to hear science talk. DD12 is all about hair and cooking and 6th grade events. DD10 cannot figure out why that stuff is so exciting. It kind of puts into perspective why DD10 find herself on the outs with many of the other 6th graders. I, of course, find her educational talks quite interesting!!!

I had a big smile on my face as I read your post. Not only is your DS coming up with some great conversation, but he is oh so polite as well!! I would have liked to see the Lady's face while she listened to DS!

The middle school principle takes you aside when you drop something off for your DD and she tries to tell you that your sixth grade DD really ought to be taking the bus to the high school next year for Maths to take honours Geometry.

This school district has come a long way in the last 3 years! They have really done their best to encourage and accomodate our DD since we shared her testing results.

This should be made into a Calvin and Hobbes comic.

...your DD8 gets a call at 4pm Friday from a friend asking if she wants to be in a math competition with him on Sat. morning - the first day of Spring Break, and she says yes. Then, hearing about the competition DD13 decides she should check it out too - eventually decided she would give it a go also.
Then at the competition, DD8 and her team place 2nd in the team portion of the competition, DD13 places 6th for individual and 1st for team.
Neither of them have ever done a math competition before or knew what to expect, but both now want to do more.

ha – so true!

i often totally forget my kid is really weird – after prolonged exposure, she seems normal to me! well, at least until i have other parents assuming she's just the tiniest 12 y/o they've ever met... (she just turned 8.)

but i guess this is totally fair, since i actually have no idea how old their kids are, either. DD is friends with a girl i assumed was around 11 – they dance in two classes together, and she's a lovely, lovely friend. and apparently 14.

DG

/also - HI everyone!!

this makes me weep with joy!

I think I must be parenting a GC because he's often more observant than I am...

We were reading a picture book from the library entitled Julia's House for Lost Creatures and I mentioned that it was such a great book that I should look up other books by this author. DS6 pipes up and says "But mommy, he's also the author of Zita the Spacegirl because look, look and look..." while pointing to the image of Julia (who bears a strong resemblance to Zita), a star (that looks like a star in the Zita books - I had to check), and a ghost (that looks like a "blob" creature in the Zita book - I had to check). Yes, Zita the Spacegirl is indeed a graphic novel by the same author/illustrator that we read last month.

He does this sort of thing on a daily basis.

...when you have no idea what they're talking about anymore, at least in certain subject areas.

When DS6 asked about the letters TM on a logo and received an explanation about trademarks, he immediately expressed concern about the Pokemon cards that he has designed and made himself. He accepted DH's reassurance that it's ok as long as he doesn't try to sell them in stores.