My little Jordyn has been having a hard time expressing herself and reading words that she used to know. She keeps getting mad at herself and calling herself a peanut brain. Poor little thing, it was breaking my heart. I told her that she was no peanut brain but I loved the name peanut because she was my little baby peanut.
A few days later when we were getting everything in order for school, she made the comment to her Dad that she would never be in the gifted program. Nate was telling me about the conversation while she was in our bathroom getting ready for church. I told her that not all smart people were in the gifted program and that it was just fine not to be. I told her that I was never in gifted and I was smart. Her replay was "ummmmmmmmmm....." I shrieked "What?" To which she said "well, I've never seen you act smart around me." Oooh that little turkey.
I'm off to go enforce "mandatory journal writing Sunday" so maybe I will have her write something about her definition of smart. Or maybe a; My Mom is smart because....entry. lol
* Have to do another update. So tonight we were joking about "smarts" again and Jared said "yeah, Mom has street smarts, she doesn't have academic smarts." You're killin me smalls! I need to explore this definition of street smarts with him, I'm intrigued. It is especially funny because that is how I used to describe myself because I got horrible grades in school. I lived with a genius younger brother who I always felt inferior around. Jared reminds me so much of him. My son thinks that if I can't have an intelligent conversation with him about string theory, then I'm only capable of being street smart. I just take every opportunity to outwit him while I can. It keeps my mind young and fresh and it keeps him humble :0) One day soon he will not only have me beat in academic smarts but in the street smarts as well and then (if he uses it for good) I will be the proudest mom ever.
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