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Note sure if there is a thread for this but I love the Hoagies section where there are little blurbs showing the differences between kids. One of my favorites had a kid that had mis-spelled "Genius" and the parent said well you better learn how to spell it. Thought it might be fun to share stories.

Here's a recent one:
DD10 runs up to me while I'm reading "how do you spell 'said'?" I looked at her with my Really? You can't be serious look. She then says "Never mind. DD6, how do I spell 'said'?" DD6 reply, "s-a-i-d".....Gotta love it.

I know kids who are pretty sensitive about having trouble with spelling and feel kind of inadequate because their younger sibs spell better than they do.

DS10 is singing "Octopus' Garden" the other night and so I start singing "Yellow Submarine".

DS: "What does that mean we all live in a yellow submarine."

Me: (thinking...really?) Um, all the people in the song live in a yellow submarine."

DS: "Thank you Captain Obvious. I thought most Beatles songs were metaphors."

Now didn't I feel silly... :-)

Breakaway

DD9: Couldn't they have diagnosed me with with something I could spell? Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and Dyslexia just don't roll off my tongue, you know?? Jeez!"

DS7 wrote a story at school about a skeleton. The skeletons and the ghosts were at war and the skeletons won. The last line of the story: "One of the skeletons was very brave and won a metal of honor. He was happy for the rest of his death."

we went to Legoland tonight with another friend, a boy, who is gifted too. When we were leaving, instead of "good bye", he says he enjoyed bonding with DD, lol!!!

When I went to 1st grade parents' night, I saw that DS's "all about me" poster said:

"In 1st grade I want to learn about nanotechnology."

He even spelled it correctly.

My youngest was explaining to his father last night why his math worksheet was empty. "The teacher says she's saving trees by making us copy the problems onto notebook paper and doing our work on our own paper. But she's not saving trees, because this process uses twice as much paper - the worksheet and the paper for the answers. So, really, all she's saving is her own paper."

You've got to love the insight that comes with a gifted kid who just doesn't buy whatever he's sold...

Apparently DD's grade skip was being discussed at her lunch table the other day at her new school. One of the children said "I'd rather be in my grade in the high-level classes, than in the next grade up in the lower-level classes". My DD told me that she didn't say anything at that point, although it did occur to her to point out that she was in the highest level classes available to her grade (and after-schooling even more). I told her that was probably exactly the right thing to do as it seems to be a fine line between being confident and boasting (especially to the audience). I said it's tricky because "you don't want to hide your light under a bushel".
She said, without missing a beat, "yeah, but you don't want to shine it in their eyes, either".

herenow-where is the "like" button for that???? love it!