Occasionally I will help my seven year old son study for his spelling tests. This is always a struggle for me, because the teacher insists on stacking the spelling word list with homophones (no, not homophobes. They are not teaching my son to memorize the names of famous bigots in spelling class. They do that in history). For example, a recent list included the words
seen,
weed,
there,
been,
need,
where,
there,
here, and
seem. Words such as this tempt me to be extra-helpful by using the word in a sentence, such as "Ben had been here all day, and had seen this scene before." Or "I hear there seems to be a tear in their seam here." I know it's cruel of me, but what do they expect?
Labels: Anecdotes, Family, Language
I'm geting a hedake.
Dann - tayk en asperun.
hear, here!
i no what your sane, two.
i actually used to give in to those impulses, when i helped our kids with homework. needless to say, i did them no favors. (it's quite possible they're suffering the consequences to this day!) xox
veri: ohohuka. isn't that Hawai'ian for "monkey boy"?
"Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present."
My older son is autistic and has fun doing stuff like this. He's very good playing with words and with math.
Ahh...spelling, my old 3rd grade nemesis. How was it that I could win the class spelling bee but never pass the paper and pencil test?
I am a horibal speler and a byslexic. Whut a mightnare.
Angela - Very clever. :)
Neva - It builds character. Or something.
Pavel - Interesting. My son isn't austistic, but he has a unique kind of brain as well. I can see him being amused by the same kind of thing.
Robin - I had the opposite problem. I choked on "molocule" and "furnature" at the spelling bee.
Goldennib - You hide it well.
You mean that ALL parents don't do this??
I am so lucky I don't have kids...
Check this out. Man, for every kind of word, there's, like, a whole 'nother word.
Yer an evil dad! I think I'd do the same...
Logophile - Not intentionally.
Fab - It sounds like they are too.
Al - That's CRAZY!!!
Cindra - My kids have to learn not to rely on me for everything eventually, right?
eeyek: What my wife says when she sees me son's spelling grade.
Diesel, I know it would seem like backpedaling if I actually claimed to be a decent speller - what with cain/cane abel oh whatever, but really I am.
G - I'll take your word for it.
Are y'all Lemony Snicket fans there? "Bears bear hard hard yarn yarns." (bears put up with difficult tales of not-soft yarn) Ugh!