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Okay, not necessarily a "brag" per se...


but maybe more like an "example" of how my asynchronous kiddo works.

She says to me (history textbook open);

"So, the Third Reich's salute was like so--" [gestures forcefully from the shoulder, with right palm down]

"and Winston Churchill's standard gesture was like so--" [holds up right hand in a victory 'vee']

"and Stalin's favorite salute was like so--" [extends right fist outward from shoulder]

"I've just realized something VERY IMPORTANT. I can't believe that I never noticed before now that World War II in the European theater was actually a giant game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. No wonder the Allies shouldn't have won."

My kid. Yup... don't know where she gets this stuff from.

This is freaking hilarious!

Aww, man, this is a new keyboard...

This forum has no appropriate emoticon for this- I need the one that's ROFL.

My response (once I stopped laughing) was to point out that the people of Dresden might have seen it a little differently. She paused thoughtfully for a moment, and then noted...


"Well, sure. At the time, I mean. A lot of things are only this... clear... in hindsight."

Sometimes she really gets on a roll like this, and it's like every additional thing out of her mouth only makes you laugh all the harder.

Hey there's even a t-shirt!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/cat...nt_location=front&size=medium&style=mens

That's a great teeshirt!!

(DD is disappointed that yet another one of her great ideas has already been discovered by someone else first, however...)

Got a great chuckle out of this... p.s. That's awesome that her ideas are so powerful they travel back in time.

along the brag lines... as we are in testing progress for an HG program... DS~7's WIAT-III results just came in with math subtests maxed at 160 (hadn't anticipated that with minor differentiation in school and the rest being all his own self-guided at home.) Language and reading bounced around (he skims, skips and reinterprets) but not enough to be an issue.

kind of a brag..

DD very poor on fall MAP. BUT she moved back into the 95th percentile in math with her strong showing (she had dropped to the 76th percentile in the fall). Her reading is slowly inching back up as she went from a fall 71st percentile to winter 85th percentile.

Her teacher is showing her that it IS ok to be the smart girl.

DS3, my sweet little bear- so agreeable and calm and often overshadowed by DD who has such a big personality... He completed the EPGY kindergarten math curriculum in 2 days! (We signed DD up but she didn't want to play through the K level.)