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Nov. 18th, 2006 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoweeI think we are soooo screwed.
Remember she's 5. Kindergarten. Learning her letter sounds and writing numbers.
First of all, two days ago I came downstairs and she said "Mom! I made a contraption!" (Yes, contraption is her word) I walk over and she has propped her ruler against her Barbie stove. She puts a seashell at the top. "Look what it does!" lets it roll down, observes, then does the same with a ball and an end-of-pencil eraser.
Yesterday she takes me out back and shows me her "new contraption". She found a piece of wood and centered it over a brick. She puts a tomato on one end, then jumps on the other. It comes up and smacks her in the face. She laughs, I laugh. She puts the tomato back. Looks at her new contraption for a minute, then stands to one side and stomps on the high end again. This sends the tomato over the fence into the neighbour's yard.
So, I begin to quiz her. Did they show her that in school? No. Did she see it on tv? No. Where did you learn about it, honey? {blank stare} "I just thinked it".
omg, and not only is she way smarter than us, we have another problem.
There are two boys in her class who always try to beat each other to holding her hand when they walk into class and also out of the school later. Last week I saw a boy of about 6 or 7 point to Victoria and tell his friend "Look how cute that little girl is!" and the friend turned around, agreed.
Yesterday we have crossed the parking lot and are on the sidewalk and this boy of about 8 or 9 turns around, glimpses her, then starts walking backwards just staring. He fell off the curb but still didn't take his eyes off her until she was inside the truck. I told this to Scott thinking it's very funny and he tells me the other day when they were leaving the school he noticed another older boy staring at her.
Now, I'm not that worried about her right now because I keep a close eye on her. The thing is, I had some very pretty friends, but not the type that boys fell all over themselves for.
Not only that, but people have always given her everything and basically spoiled her. I try to counterbalance that, but I don't want her to grow up being one of those girls who thinks they are just entitled because everyone has always fallen all over themselves for her.
Not to mention she's going to be begging for dates long before I'm willing to let her go on them.
OMG, we're just soooo screwed.
Meanwhile, I bought her some boots on Monday. Zipper broke yesterday so I have to take them back, but I'm nervous that they'll be sold out because I had to hunt to find them in the right size, pink, in the first place. {sigh}
Remember she's 5. Kindergarten. Learning her letter sounds and writing numbers.
First of all, two days ago I came downstairs and she said "Mom! I made a contraption!" (Yes, contraption is her word) I walk over and she has propped her ruler against her Barbie stove. She puts a seashell at the top. "Look what it does!" lets it roll down, observes, then does the same with a ball and an end-of-pencil eraser.
Yesterday she takes me out back and shows me her "new contraption". She found a piece of wood and centered it over a brick. She puts a tomato on one end, then jumps on the other. It comes up and smacks her in the face. She laughs, I laugh. She puts the tomato back. Looks at her new contraption for a minute, then stands to one side and stomps on the high end again. This sends the tomato over the fence into the neighbour's yard.
So, I begin to quiz her. Did they show her that in school? No. Did she see it on tv? No. Where did you learn about it, honey? {blank stare} "I just thinked it".
omg, and not only is she way smarter than us, we have another problem.
There are two boys in her class who always try to beat each other to holding her hand when they walk into class and also out of the school later. Last week I saw a boy of about 6 or 7 point to Victoria and tell his friend "Look how cute that little girl is!" and the friend turned around, agreed.
Yesterday we have crossed the parking lot and are on the sidewalk and this boy of about 8 or 9 turns around, glimpses her, then starts walking backwards just staring. He fell off the curb but still didn't take his eyes off her until she was inside the truck. I told this to Scott thinking it's very funny and he tells me the other day when they were leaving the school he noticed another older boy staring at her.
Now, I'm not that worried about her right now because I keep a close eye on her. The thing is, I had some very pretty friends, but not the type that boys fell all over themselves for.
Not only that, but people have always given her everything and basically spoiled her. I try to counterbalance that, but I don't want her to grow up being one of those girls who thinks they are just entitled because everyone has always fallen all over themselves for her.
Not to mention she's going to be begging for dates long before I'm willing to let her go on them.
OMG, we're just soooo screwed.
Meanwhile, I bought her some boots on Monday. Zipper broke yesterday so I have to take them back, but I'm nervous that they'll be sold out because I had to hunt to find them in the right size, pink, in the first place. {sigh}
