This morning, I showed my kids a few YouTube clips on my Apple-TV. They were discussing the various types of stunts that can be performed on a bicycle. The weird thing was that each time a great bike riding stunt was performed, they asked me of of was real or just some movie-trick. Apparently, they treat everything they see on TV as made- up and the only films on TV that are real are those that we shot ourselves.
Somehow I'm glad that they see things this way,
Zaaf
I just had proud parenting moment, this time it was with my four year old girl. She was playing with k*nex when I decided to play some music. On a whim I selected Strawinsky's Firebird. After the first few bars she asked if that was that "red bird". Because she heard it before, but that was two months earlier. So she recognized the music and had the association to bird correct; "Fire" had become "Red", but still an impressive feat of recognition. She makes me so proud :-)
Zaaf
Last week my seven-year-old participated in the school chess championships for primary schools in our town. This was a cross primary school event where 24 teams of eight different schools bested their chess playing skills against each other. Each team consisted of four persons. My son's team was the on average youngest team with an average age of 7. And although they ended 23th of the 24, I still think he did a remarkable job: 4.5 of the team's 9 points where his. Of his 7 games, he won 4 and drew only one.
But the most remarkable feature was that he only played 10, 11 and 12 year olds. Giving away only 2.5 out of 7 points to kids that are at least 50% older than you is reason enough to make me proud. And the first time ever he came in contact with a chess board was two months ago.
Yes, I'm a proud parent,
Zaaf
Last weekend, on Sunday morning, the 7-year old crawled into our bed and told me what he had been up to that morning. Turned out he was just playing with figures and doing some "double counting" as he called it. He basically calculated the powers of 2 up till 256. So he went 1 + 1 = 2; 2 + 2 = 4; 4 + 4 = 8, et cetera. But the interesting part of this was that instead of starting from 1 he started from a quarter.
He must be destined for a life as a programmer (or an accountant)
Zaaf
