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My son also wants to learn everything about elements. I got scared the infinitive questions he asked. So I put everything in a box and hit them. He wants me to explain evrything but I dont know.
Thanks for the hint, I have Netflix I will try that and Theodore Gray elements books and cards
If you have more idea I love to hear them

... your DD8 comes home because the neighborhood kids are organizing a game of soccer, and she needs her shin guards. Safety first!

Then she comes home, you ask, "How did the soccer game go?", and she responds, "It was pretty easy, because R and I were the only ones who ever played [organized]." And you're just floored with how blasé she was about that, considering how there were six kids involved, one was older than her by a month, and the rest (including R) were at least three years older, including one boy.

when your 5 year old runs upstairs to "divest" herself of her plush alien before grabbing her bag and shooting out the door.

Your seven-year old corrects you when you substitute "math method" for "math model." Thankfully, he has examples to share to illustrate the difference. lol

When your child corrects you on everything and you have to remind them "you knew what I meant. So stop correcting me." LOL.

I love it

For the record, that habit is FAR more charming at 5 than it is when they're 14.

when you, as a parent, get excited because you actually KNOW an answer to your child's question without having to look it up.

and you get as excited as your child when she gets new books from Scholastic because what she picks out is pretty cool stuff. (this last one was a Mission to mars book and a make your on crystals kit)

...not sure this is the right thread, but anyway....

Me and DD were driving home this evening from her x-curricular math class and I was behind a minivan with those family stickers where there is a dad sticker and a mom sticker and presumably appropriate kid stickers (and sometimes pets--yay!). Except on this van the stickers were all Star Wars themed, so Dad was I guess Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Mom was apparently Leia in the bikini, and the kids were a mini-stormtrooper and a mini-Leia, which IMO was all tremendously cute.

But it got me thinking--if I were to put these on our cars, and to choose any representation, what would it be?? And also, what are the figures supposed to represent--how others should see you, or how you wish to be seen? Anyway, in our family, if it was how each other two of us see the other one (as we are three altogether, excepting the dog), it might be: Dad = the Emperor; Mom = Tweety Bird; and DD = Warner Bros. Tasmanian Devil or Martian. Just saying.

It might be more interesting if each car had one row of 'traditional representations' (just the standard) and another of 'how we wish to be seen/ what our interests are'. I guess this might be part of what those Star Wars figures might be getting at, but it would definitely be more fun IMO than just representing how many kids you have. (and as a parent of an only kid, I would definitely 'score' better)