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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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This is somewhat of a "personal" issue for me b/c I was bumped up into an advanced class when I was in 1st grade. The teacher knew I was bored and the assignments were too easy for me, so I was sent to a class a few days a week where I could stretch my learning, so to speak. How did she determine this? I never asked . . . maybe she could tell I was bored. Or maybe the fact that I was getting the assignments and finishing first (and correctly) before my peers was the reason. I think it's a combination of things.
it cracks me up when Mom's just *have* to show what a genius their little darlings are. the fact is, few, if any babies are truly genius and why people cannot simply take pleasure in the miracle of them, I have no idea.
Do you remember years ago, during the first year (or so) of Cheers, when Coach's daughter came to visit him? She was played by Julie Kavner (who does Marge Simpson's voice). She kept trying to explain to her dad that she was no great beauty, which was why men didn't date her, and yet Coach just insisted otherwise and finally, when she's just lit into him about how she's not attractive at all and her Dad hurts her feelings saying she is, he looks at her with such a sweet love and says (words to the following effect), "You are beautiful to me, you always have been. You remind me so much of your Mom and you remember how beautiful she was." and Kavner's character was simply undone by his comment; she finally realized that her Dad really and truly saw her as a stunningly gorgeous beauty, despite not meeting classic outside beauty standards. it was one of the sweetest episodes Cheers ever made; I wish more parents could look at their children in that way--I think they'd delight in them so much more.
"your child is below the median".
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