I’m wearing this t-shirt right now. Just because I’m classy like that. Actually, it fits me to a tee (no pun intended and I actually mean the graphic, not the t-shirt). Scott’s convinced the more intelligent you are, the less common sense you have. Or maybe it’s just us. Anyway, Lexi walks up to me just now, points at it and says, “He has a big butt, Mommy.” Yes, honey, actually he does.
And yes, we try to use the word hiney or bottom. Apparently we need to work some more on that.
People used to always accuse me of being book smart but not street smart. Haven’t heard that in a long time. My parents who are convinced my little one is gifted once sent me a newspaper article which detailed some of the struggles that gifted children have that we perhaps don’t think about. One main point was that when they are in school and the teachers are teaching the curriculum toward the average intelligence of the class the gifted child often loses respect for the teacher’s intellect and is therefore unable to go to the teacher for questions and help, because the teacher is obviously not a person smart enough to help. I think that smart people forget to trust or ask for help and no one knows everything.
Was that long winded enough for you? Must be on a role today.
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Our son Matthew is in the gifted programme at his school and is the most lovable, scatter-brained kid you will ever meet. I talked to his teacher this year (and last year and the year before and the year before) about his ability to explain the process of cloning or exactly how a combustion engine works but not remember where he left his jacket, shoes etc. He even came home after gym class with the wrong pants one time! I worry constantly about his inability to be organized but his teacher assured me that while he flies through life by the seat of his pants he will be just fine.
By the way, my guys use “butt” all the time even though we try to stress the alternative words. For some reason they find it funny!
Our son Matthew is in the gifted programme at his school and is the most lovable, scatter-brained kid you will ever meet. At every parent-teacher interview since he was in the first grade I have asked the teacher how it is that he can explain how cloning works or exactly how a combustion engine is put together but cannot remember where he left his jacket, shoes etc. He even came home with the wrong pants after gym class one time. I worry constantly about his inability to get organized and asked the teacher what to do about him flying through life by the seat of his pants. She smiled and told me, “That’s Matthew…he is going to be fine.”
By the way, my guys use “butt” all the time even though we have tried stressing the alternative words. For some reason they find it funny!
Funny. My hubby used to have this same shirt.
And we say “booty,” but I’m not sure that’s any better than “butt.” My girls get fussed at if they ever say “butt” too.
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My guys use “butt” all the time even though we try stressing alternative words. For some reason they find it funny!
Matthew is just like the guy in the cartoon – he is in the gifted programme at school and can tell you exactly how a combustion engine is made or how they clone animals, plants etc. but cannot remember where he put his jacket or shoes. He even came home one day from gym class with the wrong pants! Every year at parent-teacher interview time I ask his teachers what I am going to do about him and they smile and say, “That’s Matthew” He’s just going to be one of those people who fly through life by the seat of their pants.
Just curious … what’s the parenting difference between butt, booty, hiney, and bottom?
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parenting difference? can you clarify?
Hmm…as a parent, you obviously have a preference for one word over another…what are some of the reasons behind that preference? Is one word too rude? too crude? what makes you choose one word over another, as a parent? Cuz for me, where none of my children are living, they’re all the same. I’ve tried imagining a child saying each word to me in front of guests and I can’t see myself blushing over one word and prefering a different one. So…since your children are living, what as a parent makes you prefer one word over another?
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I think I choose based on what is more lady-like and/or polite. I can imagine their teacher at school saying “everyone sit on their bottom” much better than saying “everyone sit on their butt”.