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Jim-Me
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posted about this on Sake River. Realized there are some people here I want to show off to.

kids are now in school.

kids have now taken their first tests ever.

Oldest Daughter got 100%, when extra credit was tallied.

Oldest Child got 65 and 80% on two extended diagnostic tests (Math and Language Arts, respectively). Average score is 35-40%. They're 45 min tests. He finished both in under 20.

My kids rock!

</proud papa>

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ketchupqueen
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Wow, that's great! Congratulations!

My daughter is currently dismantling the air conditioner to see how it's put together.

I'm not worried because she's done it before, never breaks it, and always puts it back the right way when she's done.

She can't even do a 18-month-old puzzle yet-- she can match where the pieces should go, but doesn't have the patience to get them to sit "just right" and go in-- but she can take apart and put together the moveable parts of the air conditioner. [Cool]

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In the face of overwhelming odds, my daughter manages not to die every day [Smile]
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Belle
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Do not underestimate how important that is, THT.
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I'm proud of little Aerin for the same thing.

And she's not even mine. [Smile]

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Jim-Me
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For those on the Hope thread...*points up* that's what I meant. [Smile]
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romanylass
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Way to go, Jim-Me kids!

THT-How is your daughter, BTW?

kq-you may never have to pay a repairman again!

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Way to go kids and parents!

Babydot has slept all the way through the night for two nights running. She's also now able to sit up on her own and blow raspberries!

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Jim-Me
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I can't identify what got deleted, but I hope no one thought I was saying anything bad about their posts... I just thought a lot of these stories of struggling children fit my definition of hope pretty well.
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Woohoo! Way to go, Jim-Me's kids!
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tonight Daniel (who is in kindergarten) wrote his name three times - first and last name, with correct capital and lowercase letters. Then he wrote the word "red" three times, and didn't need my help at all once he realized that all three of those letters were also in his name.

This was the child that at age five was said to have the grip of a seven month old and I was told by an occupational therapist he would be severely behind in school. [Smile] On the contrary, his teacher tells me he is pretty darn close to being on level with the rest of the class.

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Congrats to your kids, Jim-Me! That's definitely something to be proud of!
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Belle, that's excellent news. Just excellent!
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Belle
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I know jeni - sometimes I just get so excited! The other day I was filing and actually found that OT report, and I read it again to make sure I wasn't imagining things. But no, this child really was said to be severely developmentally delayed in fine motor skills.

Now, things are not all roses, just because he can write the letters doesn't mean he does it easily - it's a pretty huge effort and he tires quickly. But it's still leaps and bounds from where we thought we'd be at this time.

Edit: you know since this is a bragging thread and all I should mention that I have three other children.

Natalie was told by her English teacher that she had the "best writing talent I can remember seeing in a 7th grader." Which made her very happy, as she loves to write. [Smile]

Emily - her coach talked to me again the other day, she is virtually certain Em will be ready to move up to the competition level in gymnastics after the first of the year. She said it's possible she might even skip a couple of levels.

Abigail - also in kindergarten and doing beautifully. She can write her name and is recognizing quite a few sight words already.

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[Smile]
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Jim-Me
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Yay for all kids on the thread!
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[Big Grin]
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Belle- that made me so happy [Smile] .

Olivia (6) is reading stories to Andrew (3) and making him paper dolls. She loves to play Mama.

Matthew (8) is learning how to use a dictionary. Since I know adults who can't do that, it makes me pretty proud.

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Okay, now I have to brag on my 12 year old.

We were listening to talk radio on the way home from school today, and the topic of discussion was a woman who was recently removed from an airplane for wearing a tshirt with an obscenity on it. Another woman to whom this had happened was giving an interview of her experience. She was taking a flight with a stopover in Albequerque wearing a tshirt that said Lucky F***er on it. She was wearing a jean jacket over the shirt, but the plane was hot, so she took it off. After walking to the end of the plane to go to the restroom, another passenger complained to a stewardess about the shirt, and so she was asked to put her jacket on. She refused, saying that it was too hot, and she was properly dressed and shouldn't have to. When the plane landed in Albequerque, she was escorted off the plane by two police officers. She freaked out and cried (her words), but went without any resistance. Another passenger came to her defense, and was asked if he wished to come with her, or remain on the flight.

So I asked my son what he thought of all this. His answer surprised me.

He said that he thought it was pretty dumb of her to wear the t-shirt, because someone was sure to complain, and he was sorry she got kicked off the plane, but was glad that someone stood up for her, because if it were him, he'd feel pretty happy if he knew someone was standing up for him, even if what he'd done was stupid. It was that last part that made me pretty proud of him. He was thinking of her feelings even though he didn't think what she'd done was all that smart.

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Soara
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The test scores are nice, but remember they're not what really matter. [Smile]
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And that's why none of us wonder how we would have fared if we could have tested for Battle School after reading Enders Game. [Wink]

Sadly, by our own design conscious or otherwise, we are always testing and being tested. But you are right that there is so much more than a score. Still, nice scores are...well...nice.

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My mom is getting straight A's while working full time. [Big Grin]

(Me, not so much)

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Jim-Me
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believe me, there are very few who are more aware of how little test scores mean...

Among the people I know personally who I out-tested are war heroes, game designers, lawyers, venture capitalists, orthopedic surgeons, and one of the founders of excite, who is now a senior exec at Google. All rousing successes, doing (or who did) what they want(ed) with their lives.

Whereas my life has been, at best, a successful failure (if I may borrow from Apollo 13) and I'm pretty well imprisoned in a career field I despise, with the cold comfort that it has nearly entirely died out and jobs are incredibly hard to come by... so I may well be free of it soon.

And you don't even want to hear about my personal life... and I don't want to whine.

So, let me have my little moment in the sun... I worked hard (and so did a few other people, not the least the kids themselves) to get things on this track. The tests may not have much value, but they do mean that there's at least one area where I've done right by my kids.

And I'll stake that claim, gladly and proudly.

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quote:
So, let me have my little moment in the sun... I worked hard (and so did a few other people, not the least the kids themselves) to get things on this track. The tests may not have much value, but they do mean that there's at least one area where I've done right by my kids.

And I'll stake that claim, gladly and proudly.

I don't think that it's ever wrong to give credit where credit is due. It's one of the more wonderful, yet underassigned, perks of being in a family.
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quote:
And you don't even want to hear about my personal life... and I don't want to whine
I want to.
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This is a bit long and indulgent, but I didn't know where to stop.

My son Todd was born in late October 1984. He’ll be celebrating his 21st birthday in a couple of weeks. He joined two older sisters in our family, and was later known as "the boy with all the sisters" after three more girls came along. Todd was always very precocious and bright. As a toddler , he loved to sing and dance and liked to “direct” the music he heard and made. As a preschooler, he was very good with numbers and was something of a math prodigy, and also loved to play computer games. When he was a a little older, he was something of a computer wonk. He was small for his age and would rather do computer stuff or read than anything else. He was teased a bit because he wasn’t athletic and was smarter than most of the other children. When he was about 10, we learned that OSC would be having a book signing at the Barnes & Noble store in Provo, Utah – which was about a 3 hour drive from our home. We took our children out of school and went down for the day, without telling them where we were going or why. Todd was so excited when we told him why we were there. He asked OSC to sign his book twice – in the front and in the back. I’m sure when he told the kids at school about that it didn’t help his reputation much.

In 1996 he started Junior high school. Because of where we lived, he went to a different school than most of the children who went to his elementary school, so he kind of started fresh. He joined the track team, and was quite good. He was undefeated in the hurdles, and also ran several other events. He went through a growth spurt, and wasn’t the shortest kid in the class anymore. Then, in 8th grade, he made a decision that changed his life. He decided to go out for the wrestling team.

I don’t know exactly what made Todd decide he wanted to wrestle. I asked him not long ago, and he didn’t remember the details either, but he joined the junior high school wrestling team, and none of us ever looked back. He was a natural. In his junior high school “career” he was undefeated, and he never failed to pin his opponent. It almost became a contest to see how quickly he could finish the pin. I think his record was something like 18 seconds. No one ever completed a full round against him. One of the boys who was so mean to him in elementary school (I’ll call him Neil) learned that he was scheduled to wrestle Todd in a meet, and bragged about how quick it would be. He remembered Todd as a small, introverted bookworm, and hadn’t seen him in a couple of years. It was quick all right, but not in the way he thought it would be. Todd and Neil faced off on the mat and Neil knew he was in trouble. He was pinned very quickly and I think Todd especially enjoyed that match. He and Neil became good friends the next year when they started at the same high school.

While he was in junior high, he continued to run track, and he also played football. He was the city champion in hurdles every year, and he scored the winning touchdown in the only game his football team won in the two years they played. At the end of junior high, he was voted “best all around athlete”. It was of amazing that my little bookworm, the boy with “all the sisters” was such a jock. And it seemed to happen overnight.

He went on to high school and decided to drop track and football and concentrate on wrestling. While he wasn’t undefeated anymore, he still won more than he lost and was well respected by his own teammates as well as his opponents. After his sophomore year, our family moved from SE Idaho to Maui, and he was welcomed with open arms by the wrestling team and coach here. He went to the state championship his junior year and took 5th place. Then, during his senior year, he decided he was going to take the state championship.

He worked very hard. He ran every night. He was VERY careful with what he ate, and watched his weight like a hawk. He quit his part-time job and spent many hours in the wrestling room, drilling and practicing. He also kept his grades up and had two semesters with 4.0s. And he did it. He took the state championship in one of the most competitive weight classes in high school wrestling (160). I was there to cheer him on, and lost my voice for a week afterwards. It was a very exciting time.

After the state tournament, in March, until he graduated and left for college, he was something of a local celebrity here. High school sports are a BIG deal here… throughout the state. And for a Maui boy to take the championship, well, it was on the front page of the local paper. We were a little unprepared for it. He was the first athlete in the history of his high school to win a state championship in any sport. He won the tournament on a Saturday, and by the time he got to school on Monday, they had painted his name on the wall of the gymnasium. Strangers on the street would come up and congratulate him. When people would learn my daughters’ names, they would recognize it and ask if Todd was their brother. It went to his head a little bit, but not as much as what came next - the college recruiters.

He started getting calls from schools all over the west coast. He decided to go to a small business school in the Bay Area. When he was getting ready to leave, I reminded him that it may have been his athletic ability that got him to college, it would have to be his brains that kept him there, and he hasn’t disappointed me. He’s been working as a math tutor and in the school computer lab to supplement his scholarship. He’s in his third year now, and still has a 4.0 gpa. He’s still a bookworm. He still loves OSC. He’s still a computer wonk. And he’s still wrestling.

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That is very impressive. [Big Grin]
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Jim-Me -- Congrats for your kids and I appreciate your insight on the fickle nature of "success" in the many and varied aspects of our lives where we try to measure it.

maui -- pass on my congrats to Todd and here's to his continued success! Wrestling is such an individual sport. Based on the life story you relate for Todd, I wonder if that was one of its draws for him.

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