Precocious, moi?
I have been blessed with two daughters, 6 & 4. Now, we tend to spend most of our time encouraging them to discover where their strengths might lie and encouraging them to be happy, confident, outgoing, etc, etc. I'm reconsidering that whole strategy - inertia is certainly the way forward (if you'll excuse the pun). What's brought me to this revelation? Well, I'd like to share with you this short exchange between my firstborn and I.
Picture the scene - I've written a short sentence on a piece of notepaper for her to copy. My daughter takes a moment to digest this simple sentence, then picks up a pen and decides to "mark it" (just like her teachers, it appears). This is what she wrote (I have corrected her spelling, the meaning is what's important):
Well, soorrrry! She needs to stop aging right now. No more confidence, etc, etc, is required thank you very much."You forgot your full stop so I had to do it for you. A grown-up would have known that by now. I am a little disappointed because you could of written a bit more"
