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Oh, those are terrible, aren't they? So fluffy and silly! :) My daughter loved them. She is not quite 10 and is now reading all kinds of stuff, so don't despair, she'll be fine.
Now I'm going to give you my Theory About Twaddle--specifically about easy chapter books. Easy chapter books, even very fluffy ones, are a boon to children and to you! You may have heard SWB talk about how tiny children love repetition--they want to hear the same story over and over, because they are learning pattern. Well, IMO easy chapter books are the next step up. They are great for allowing children to practice reading skills (which takes a lot of work!) without also having to worry too much about the story. It's repetition with variation--it has adventure, but the kid knows that it's safe. Jack and Annie are always going to make it back to the tree house, and Kirsty and Rachel will always manage to help the fairy and defeat the goblins.
I vote for letting your daughter read the twaddle. Her reading and comprehension skills will benefit, and soon enough she'll be reading Treasure Island with glee. Easy chapter books will help her to do so.
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I don't think it's weird to measure her, FWIW. I do think, though, that getting it done by a pro would be better. I took my daughter to Penney's, to the lady everyone recommends because she is the best. My daughter didn't like it much, but she sure likes the perfectly-fitting bras.
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Oscar Wilde spent time in jail for gay activity... so not just the lower class.
Yeah, but he was kind of a special case. He wouldn't have gone to jail if he hadn't insisted on suing his lover's father for libel, when the 'libel' was that he was gay, which he in fact was, and then it was proven in court. So then they pretty much had to send him to jail to uphold public morality, not to mention he wasn't that popular anyway. If Wilde hadn't sued, he would never have gone to jail. (I'm not saying it was right, on several levels, but that was the system. And this is a quick summary--look up the details.)
Anyway, the upper classes got away with all kinds of things that would get a servant thrown out into the streets, yep. Edith (oh heck, is that her name? the maid) is a sort-of (prettified) example. It was entirely common for a houseowner, or his son, to force a maid to submit to his importunities. Then she'd get thrown out to starve when she got pregnant, and indeed prostitution was often the only way to survive. If you lost your job without a reference, that was the end of you.
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Oh thanks! I love Fish Whistle but don't own a copy. :D
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I quit watching after the first season, and I'm glad I did. It is SO pretty. The clothes are to die for, and as a sewing addict I'm all about the clothes. But the plot is ridiculously soapy and only gets worse, and now they're killing people off left and right. The pretty is the only good part!
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If it's only been a few weeks, I'd assume that she's in shock and doing some very weird things because of that.
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Memory work. I tried, but it was pretty much a failure. Also lapbooks. Lapbooks are right up MY alley, but not my kids'.
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Like LNC, no one has ever said that to me--I have two girls. I would be really surprised and kind of offended if someone said that to me. I like my girls!
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One problem you're going to have forever is people treating your son like he is older because he is bigger. I'm sure this is part of the problem now. It seems to be quite difficult for many people to remember that a really big 3yo is still just a 3yo and doesn't have any extra maturity.
I would take him out of group activities for a little while. And I'd go to great lengths to find him some playtime with kids who are bigger and older than he is--like, 8 and 10--who understand that he loves to tumble around and who are mature enough to treat him physically, with love.
My sister was very tall very early, and always towered over the other kids her age. This was a constant problem for her too.
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:grouphug: I don't really have any great suggestions, but there is a woman in my ward whose youngest son (of 6) frequently comes into RS with her. I think he's a Sunbeam this year, or maybe even a 4, but I've never seen him happy away from his parents. He screams and freaks out in class or Nursery, and I think he might put up with it sometimes (though not happily)...but mostly he just comes in with his mom or goes with his dad. Nobody minds. :grouphug:
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Ugh, reminds me of the watching the funeral of JPII on CNN. I wish religion correspondents knew more about, oh, I don't know, religion!
I KNOW RIGHT?!
Good golly, what idiocy. :cursing:
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My prayers are with Catholic friends as this transition happens. I can understand that you'd be unsettled. I'm sure it will all come out OK.
As it happens I'm reading a book about Celestine V right now. Otherwise I wouldn't have known a Pope could resign either.
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Looking back I wish I'd taken it more seriously than I did. Our teacher taught at a very "primary" level and being a rather angsty teen I resented being talked to like I was six, so I didn't really pay much attention to the lessons. The "scripture chases" were fun, but only because my brother and I were very competitive with each other. The problem with THAT is that the teacher didn't realize we only cared about beating each other, she thought we were competing for the Smarties candies she always gave to whoever got there first. There were only 4 kids in the class, my brother and me and the teacher's two daughters. To this day I cannot eat Smarties anymore. But looking back I think Sister L was very brave to take us on at all. Especially that early in the morning. She was always prepared and cheerful, and there's definitely something to be said for that.
We lived right behind the church building and I could roll out of bed and be at Seminary in 2 minutes flat. It was very convenient. I enjoyed the social parts of Seminary--seeing my friends and sitting next to that one guy I kind of had a crush on--but my teachers were pretty much bonkers. I don't know what it is about my home town, but it has a very high proportion of really strange people. I think I heard just about every FPR and crazy theory there is in Seminary--I don't know how my testimony survived, but I seem to have just ignored it. One of them spent 10+ years in jail after I graduated...I guess the others were cheerful and brave all right, just kind of out there. I'm so grateful for the great Seminary teachers here in our town and am looking forward to it for my girls.
I had a very nice time at church, both SS and RS were great. The conversation in RS had me mentally comparing it to Pilgrim's Progress the whole time. In the afternoon I settled in on the couch and fell asleep for a few minutes, and the next thing I knew it was 6pm. Oops. I don't normally nap on Sunday afternoons.
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I try to be the calm, unmoving presence. I always send her to her room...
I think this is wise. If you engage in a power struggle then she will probably go to any lengths to show you that you can't control her, and that's not what you want.
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My husband and I went and saw it in the theater--like on the second day it played--and we agreed afterwards that the cardboard love story was just there to give a bit of coherence to all the more affecting tragedy going on around them, like the mom tucking her children in (*sob*) and the married couple and so on. I guess we kind of missed the point of the movie...but yeah KW's head is way bigger than Leo's! :lol:
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I had a good senior year, but I clearly remember many of my friends freaking out. One said that she felt like it was going to be the end of everything. One drifted for a while before figuring things out. And so on.
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I call my children kiddo all the time. It doesn't mean anything besides 'kid.' Heck, my coworker calls me that (he is all of a year older than I am).
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OWN ALL THE BOOKS!
Heh. Sorry. I have them all and have read them several times each.
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I am so glad to hear this. :grouphug:
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Oh! Me! I'm afraid of counseling!
I hate the whole idea. OTHER people should go to counseling, sure, that's perfectly reasonable, but not me. I'd just about rather have my fingernails pulled out. I do not have religious or cultural objections. I just don't like talking about my feelings to other people. Unless maybe they're my husband or best friend or a private online group where I don't have to see them face-to-face. My feelings are MINE and you can't have them, is pretty much my attitude. I'm a little strange about it...
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My mom and I are the readers, and we talk book-stuff. My dad and my husband talk computers and politics (they are best buds, ha). My siblings vary--I have a punk intellectual brother, a German intellectual brother, and a computer geek brother and sister. It's best not to talk politics with any of them.
My mom is smarter than me and I will never catch up. Every time I read something huge and amazing, she has already done it.
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They do both deliver the lines--Han says "I know" in Empire, and Leia says it in Jedi. I vote that you give him BOTH keychains in a package and you two figure it out together.
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Hey Amber, we must have watched the same broadcast yesterday. Our stake center was weirdly empty because they sent the broadcast to the outlying towns in our stake separately. Not that we got a comfy padded pew anyway, it was the metal folding chairs for us.
Right afterwards, my RS presidency met with the singles ward RSP to plan the anniversary dinner (I'm secretary). In the kitchen, standing up, with bowls of soup to eat. :laugh:
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I didn't say small town, I said small CITY! :D 100K doesn't really qualify as a town, even I know that. It really does feel like a smaller town than it is, though; everybody seems to know each other.
Thank you, kind librarian, for introducing my child to....
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Oh, thanks! :) Between being a librarian and being a homeschooling mom, I've developed some of my own theories about kids and reading, and I've become convinced that twaddle in the form of easy chapter books serves a real purpose. The Rainbow Fairies are pretty awful to an adult--they're the literary equivalent of Pokemon only not as interesting--but IMO good for a little girl who is still practicing reading skills.
If you (the general parent) feel that the child isn't getting enough literary fiber from self-chosen reading material, then I think upping the read-alouds and/or pushing audiobooks is the answer for a while. The more rich literary language you can stock a child's mind with by reading aloud, the more prepared she will be to read those books herself when her visual reading skills catch up.
I guess it's like how SWB teaches writing skills by separating them out into copywork and narration. Within a short time, the child will be able to integrate those different elements of reading and enjoy reading complex works on her own. (Though at the same time, I think we ought to be reading aloud a lot, until an older age than we usually think necessary. We should be reading aloud to 10 and 11yos as a routine thing IMO, and most people quit long before that.)