Kids say the darnest things...

[Blobbi]

Autumnbronze, your kid is hilarious! But yah, why can't hah?

[Blobbi]

jedamum:

the other day, ds1 was reading a book and that chapter involved the main character being suspended from school as he was seen threatening another boy (which was actually something else) with a pocket knife.


ds1 : mummy, what is the meaning of 'suspension'?
me : in this case, it means that the boy cannot attend school during that period of suspension cos he had done something wrong.
ds1 :? : no need to attend school? then the boy should be even more happy! what kind of punishment is this?!
me :

Every kid's dream huh?? :evil:

[Blobbi]

Just went for my son's PTM mid this week. While the academics were good, he's apparently not been handing up work when he should. I asked him about it.


\"Well, it started after the March hols, before April. There was writing and I took a long time to complete my work. I decided not to hand it up because the teacher would get angry. But I wasn't caught! I kept not handing in without getting caught, so my neurons kept firing and firing, making a strong connection. Before I knew it, it became a habit. So now, I can't stop, \" he shrugged nonchalently.

:!: :faint: :frustrated: :frustrated: :frustrated:

[jedamum]

Blobbi:

Just went for my son's PTM mid this week. While the academics were good, he's apparently not been handing up work when he should. I asked him about it.


\"Well, it started after the March hols, before April. There was writing and I took a long time to complete my work. I decided not to hand it up because the teacher would get angry. But I wasn't caught! I kept not handing in without getting caught, so my neurons kept firing and firing, making a strong connection. Before I knew it, it became a habit. So now, I can't stop, \" he shrugged nonchalently.

:!: :faint: :frustrated: :frustrated: :frustrated:

:lol: read too many science books already.

[Blobbi]

jedamum:

:lol: read too many science books already.

:lol: Yalor :lol: :lol:

[autumnbronze]

Blobbi:

But I wasn't caught! I kept not handing in without getting caught, so my neurons kept firing and firing, making a strong connection. Before I knew it, it became a habit. So now, I can't stop, \" he shrugged nonchalently.


:!: :faint: :frustrated: :frustrated: :frustrated:

Wahhhhh, Blobbi your DS's reasoning skills so imaginative, so cute lah ... I keep imagining 2 bolts of lightning-like thingees hitting together and causing sparks when I read that :rotflmao:

Actually, what he says does kinda make sense, how to respond back liddat :?

[Blobbi]

autumnbronze:

Actually, what he says does kinda make sense, how to respond back liddat :?

After 7 years of training, I've also become quite the master at verbal taichi. :lol: I talk back in his very visual lingo. I asked him, can humans build houses? \"Yes.\" Can they demolish it? \"Yes\". So whatever you can build, you can destroy, right? \"(Scratch head) Yes\". Then I launch off into firing neurons for good habits, and if you don't fire the bad habit neuron, that connection will weaken and break off and that's how we forget.

Our friend says wide-eyed, \"Oh yes! How logical! I can do THAT!\" Actually, I'm just repeating the info that he told me before (pays to listen closely to what your kid says, chortle).

Gaotim sai ... that is, until the next one. :faint:

[jedamum]

after completing a revision SA1 math paper, ds1 asked his grandma to guess what was his score. his grandma guessed 80marks and he replied...

\"80marks at home fail already ah!! guess again!\"

:oops: :oops:

[Blobbi]

jedamum:

after completing a revision SA1 math paper, ds1 asked his grandma to guess what was his score. his grandma guessed 80marks and he replied...

\"80marks at home fail already ah!! guess again!\"

:oops: :oops:

I can imagine, you're silently going *eeks!*

[jedamum]

Blobbi:

jedamum:

after completing a revision SA1 math paper, ds1 asked his grandma to guess what was his score. his grandma guessed 80marks and he replied...

\"80marks at home fail already ah!! guess again!\"

:oops: :oops:

I can imagine, you're silently going *eeks!*

yes... :oops:
my rationale is that while i expect some school papers to set some difficult questions, i don't expect the number of difficult questions to be more than 4 questions (for P2) and while i can accept him not knowing how to do those questions, i have lesser tolerance for careless mistakes, hence his conclusion of 80 marks passing mark. :oops: