Originally Posted by ultramarina
My DD seems to be much like me and is picking up beautiful grammar and sentence construction by osmosis. In fact, she notices errors in books and points them out to me. Be still my heart!

I laughed at this. My DS8 is a natural editor too. He's been pointing out errors for a few years now. I work as an editor -- I actually asked a coworker last week "whatever happened to the Oxford comma?" -- and so I always feel a great sense of pride when DS finds errors in writing! His own writing is another matter though... he doesn't seem to care much yet. I'm hopeful that DS's school will do a good job with grammar, otherwise I'll step in at some point.