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I am SO MEAN! I got five of Gelfand's math books in the mail, and DS saw them and asked me, "What's that?"

 

Me: They're math books for me!

Him: (frowning) Math books are for me.

Me: Not these. These are MINE.

Him: Well, when can I do them?

Me: Not until you finish sixth grade math!

Him: May I look at them?

Me: Well. Maybe. but you can't have them.

Him: When can I look at them.

Me: After you finish your reading. But you have to give them RIGHT BACK, because they're mine, and I'm going to work through them.

Him: That's not fair! You're being really mean!

Me: Yep. Keeping math books from you. I'm MEAN.

 

He's practically salivating...

 

Of course, this means more pain for me because we've ramped back up to four RightStart lessons a day. *sighs* He's pushing for five.

 

I also started counting to three today: "One... two...if I get to three, you're not getting any extra math at bedtime!" Boy did THAT work well!

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LOL! That was my son for awhile too. We've hit a wall in math, so now he's begging for more cursive writing practice pages. "I want to do handwriting first!" "Please can I do just one more page?" This, from the boy who I had to beg just to write one word when he was 6! Gotta love it!

Thanks for sharing your funny!

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I'm waiting for him to hit something he doesn't understand, but he just keeps speeding up. Erk. He's got the concept of fractions down now, too, so I don't know when this will stop. I've got 3rd grade tentatively scheduled at two lessons a day, but we'll see in a few months (or, at this rate, one month *whimper*) how THAT will fly.

 

Well, if I gave him Gelfand's books right after he finishes 6th grade math and didn't teach it, that'd probably bring him to a screeching halt. *g* That would be mean, though!

 

We did 4.5 lessons in math yesterday. 4.5. That's nearly a week's worth.

 

I've finally found something that encourages him in reading--reading to his unborn sister! Seriously! I think he doesn't like reading to adults because they know more than he does and can read it for themselves if they want, so he doesn't see the point...? Anyhow, he also loves reading to the neighbor's kid, who's now at a 1st grade reading level. Reading to my belly seemed like a logical extension. By the time she's reading at all, he'll be beyond reading aloud, even with his dyslexia issues, so I think we've hit upon a workable solution to his reading phobia. (He'll read stacks of easy picture books to himself, but he's reading on a 6th grade level, so he needs SOME reading that's more challenging than that.)

 

I am resisting feeling like a total jerk because I'm "making" him do RightStart. That is slowing him WAY down. Buuuuut...it's giving him enough time to completely solidify his math facts and not get too far ahead conceptually where he is computationally. It's also conceptually SO GOOD that I can't see my way straight to throwing it out. It is SO much more exhausting to do a week of RS in a day than it is a MONTH of Singapore, though. That, I do not enjoy. But it look like, at this rate, I just have to make it through one year of this kind of insanity, and I'll be done with RS and onto less teacher-intense things. DS will probably still do his work next to me or in my lap, but he won't need as much ENERGY from me.

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It's so cool that he will read to your belly! My dd reads tot he toddler. That is my sneaky way of getting her to read aloud. I am glad you found something that will work.

 

Yes, that's how I got my now 10 yo to read aloud. She loves to read to her brother, and reads like a Philadelphia lawyer, but hates to do read aloud if it's "school," unless it's reading SOTW or something to him.

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DS started reading to a friend who only reads at the first grade level--enthusiastically and over long periods of time. I thought of the baby only after he did that! And he loves it. I THINK the deal is that reading to adults, he feels like he's being tested all the time (which he hates). Reading to a nonreader has a purpose in his mind, though!

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My husband was like that when he was young. He finished all the math courses offered by his school system -- what's beyond calculus? -- by the time he was in 10th grade, and still wanted more.

 

He's still a whiz at things like calculus and physics, but has trouble balancing the checkbook. ;) Be sure your son takes a personal finance course in there sometime before graduation! :lol:

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