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Was driving the Pink Tornado to school today early, as I had a meeting to see if she qualified for the AIG (which is academic giftedness, not an insurance firm) program. I was listening to TRIBES by Seth Godin and he was talking about curiosity and how school hammers it out of you. So I got the PT’s attention.
“Hey kiddo, are you curious?”
“Well, only a little bit.”
“Only a little bit? Really?”
“Well, see that truck there? [we were passing an 18 wheeler at a gas station] I’m not curious about it.” Pause. “Except how to drive it.”
Oh, and she qualified for the accelerated program. Seriously, look out world. This is a girl who has promised to invent me a Boba Fett suit with working jetpack.
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I can totally see & hear her saying that! Wyldman told me the other day that he likes the PT, “’cause she’s all spazzy.”
You certainly have an amazing child, Mur. How could she *not* be amazing? She has two awesome parents
Congrats to the PT on her new accelerated program! Jet packs may just be the new transportation of the future! What am I saying? They *are*!
Is there an Awesomest Kid Evar Award of Awesomeness? If so, can we get the PT on the ballot?
I dunno how much feedback you generally get on your PT updates, but I want you to know that I really love them. My fiancee and I are planning to try for kids in the next couple years, and I’d be a liar if I tried to pretend that that’s not scary as hell for me. I guess I’m a compulsive worrier: I think too much about all the things that could go wrong with having kids.
Then I read your updates about the PT, and they make me realize how great it could be to have kids of my own. They remind me that raising kids can be fun and exciting (in addition to being stressful, of course). Reading about your daughter, and how much fun you have with her, and experiencing vicariously her wonder at the world around her… well, it makes me realize that despite the stress and the headaches that I know will come, I can’t wait to raise kids of my own.
Of course, my kids can’t be nearly so awesome, but that pretty much goes without saying.
Thanks for sharing, Mur.
– Jason
Mur, I have to to agree with Jason. I am scared as hell about the whole having kids thing. My wife has told me a number of times over the last couple of months that she has been feeling her biological engine revving. This is coming from a woman that said she hadn’t ever considered children a possibility until we met. So, while I am flattered, this still doesn’t help the whole being scared shite-less part.
Short story long, just reading this helped a little.
Thanks,
Ry
Jason and Ry-
I never babysat. No younger siblings. I had zero experience with kids until the PT. I was unsure about parenting, but eventually I felt that classic urge.
It hasn’t been all roses and daffodils, but no one will tell you that it is. It also hasn’t been anything Jim and I couldn’t handle. I will say that it’s been – especially in the past two years – so much more fun than I expected.
My geek/awkward parenting advice: engage the kid in what you love to do and treat them like they have brains (I hate babytalk, for example) and they’ll catch on.
Good luck to you both.
I have a constant fear that school will interfere with my kids’ eductaion.
There was an old Harry Chapin song about exactly that. In the end, the system won. *shudder*
Kingfish – actually, in “Flowers are Red”, the teacher was the one who won. The second teacher would have won just as easily.
Put me down on the list for enjoying the PT stories. I’ve got an 11yo Lego Robotics competing son, a 5yo son obsessed with Indiana Jones right now (even though he only knows it via the Lego Wii game), and 3yo daughter who is far too obsessed with Disney Princesses (especially Enchanted) and Care Bears right now… but is also a fan of Miyazaki flicks and The Princess Bride. It’s nice to hear OTHER people’s kid stories once in a while.