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LOL, OMA! ROFL!

DS7 told me today that he wants to invent a teleporter so we can get rid of all other forms of transportation and we can all just travel anywhere we want any time we want. I told him that sounded like a great way to solve the current gas price problems!!!! LOL!!!

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(In case you can't tell, that's my version of the first two lines of the Star Trek theme song, the original.)

DS5 has told us for the past year that he wants to be a Tornado Chaser Scientist and study weather :-)

So I asked DD:

'I want to study the rainbow'

Then she said as well the plants and the laptop

This article crossed one of my lists, and I thought it was relevant to this discussion of childhood goals:

http://www.more.com/lifestyle/memoirs/my-so-called-genius/

She writes about precociousness and how that affects later success (or lack thereof). It's a good reminder that smart is nice, but perfectionism and lack of hard work pretty much guarantee that you won't fulfill your promise...and then with age, you can get past all that and just be you.

There's a paragraph on page 2 that I ought to frame and put over my computer. Perfectionism, be gone! Be good, not great!

Oh, Kriston, I LOVED it! I remeber panicking when I realized (belatedly) that the only skill I had was being brilliant.

LOL! For me it was the pressure of being voted "Most likely to succeed" in high school.

Oh, no pressure there!

Um...Succeed at what? How? Can someone draw me a map? Hello? Anyone?

So, yeah, I hear you, aline!

Thanks for the article. Some of her points really hit home with me.

I just asked DS5 when he wanted to be when he grows up and he told me, "A baseball umpire". He went on to tell me that he thinks he would be great at determining strikes and balls.

LOL, kcab! Yes, the name of Pippi's house is Villa Villekulla (sp?).

"I'll take 'Obscure Kid's Lit Names' for $200, Alex."

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