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    When your 6-year-old quizzes you on the glass of water you are drinking and the answer he was looking for was "Newtonian fluid."

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    When your second grader answers all the questions on a math test about the time needed to travel from point A to point B in seconds (correctly), instead of days, hours and minutes�

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    whne your 4 year old refuses to go to bed until they have mastered counting to 10 in Chinese, French and Spanish - that they started 10 minutes before bedtime, Didn't take long....

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    When you spell out the name of one of your 3yo's Easter presents at lightning speed to a friend on the phone. Your child is chattering away happily to himself as you're doing this, so you think all's safe. He perks his head up and says, "I'm getting a scooter?!!! Awesome!!"

    You then decide to spell the names of the other presents backwards to your friend, and DS then starts giving you "codes" to crack later in the day that are words spelled backwards. This is the kid who can read but insists that Mama read all his stories still because he "needs fast delivery" (his words, and I don't mind because I love our cuddly time together.)

    There's always French or Spanish, I guess.

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    LOL about the spelling. I have two kids who are really on the ball...but we did use the spelling backwards for the longest time without them catching on. Don't know why they never caught on that we were spelling backwards.

    I figured the first time we spelled "maerc eci?" and magically there was ice cream that they would crack the code.

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    It's crazy, isn't it, Cookie! I should have known better--he performs when highly motivated.

    In Canada, we have an ice cream chain called "Dairy Queen". One day last summer, my dad proposed taking us for ice cream using the international radio alphabet...something like, "Aquinas, shall we go to Delta Quebec?" Literally a second later, DS screams, "yeah, ice creeeeeeeaaamm!" I occasionally use that alphabet when spelling out travel confirmation codes or addresses with merchants, so I guess he picked it up that way?


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    aquinas: For some reason, pig latin still works for us, in lieu of spelling out words in cryptic code etc. Granted, we try not to overuse it, but... maybe worth a shot? lol.

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    You are listening to your 9 yr old in the back of the car discussing who in the family is Athenian and who is a Spartan.

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    I just love all of these. The code-breakers are cracking me up!

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    We still use French here. It's funny because neither parent is that good at it anymore.

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