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[resonant]

Tonight in our reading we encountered the word "chaos." I said to the kidlet, "Do you know what 'chaos' means?"

"Yes!" they say happily. "It's a whole bunch of kids all screaming at the same time! And they're all twins and you've told them their birthday is tomorrow! And some of them are doing backflips! And some of them are knocking over lamps! That's chaos!"



edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns

Comments

[grum]

Unfortunately, that depends completely on the school (and/or on who the teacher is)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons that we've kept her in the Montessori School of the Well-Meaning Vague People is to postpone, for as long as we can manage it, the day when she finds herself with one of those teachers who labels any kid smarter than him/her "an attitude problem."