Today I was in the Post Office with my two girls, the seven-year-old dividing numbers using the distributive property and reciprocal multiplication like it was cake and the nine-year-old factoring quadratics in her head to entertain the people in line. Then when they asked about literature...
LOL! I had to explain that math was their weakest subject!
I wish you all could have heard my son give his speech the other day about his trip to Washington DC for the Bush inauguration. He told all about the three branches of the government that we visited all in one day. He was so excited about the trip, he just could hardly stand it and it showed. He used only notes, and spoke clearly and logically. Pretty good for a just barely 6 year old, huh? One of the people in attendance took me aside and told me that listening to him brought tears to her eyes. Here was a child that knew more about how his government works than most adults. And when he spoke of Lincoln and Washington, the Korean War Memorial and the Viet Nam Wall, it was really very moving.