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In a message dated 4/8/03 4:04:57 AM, fetteroll@... writes:

<< What is *she* interested in? What does *she* want to know more about?

<<And it's okay if she says TV! ;-) As long as she has other things that
interest her just as much available, and isnt choosing TV just because it's
the best of a bad lot of choices, then she's learning. >>

Learning about TV is a heck of a lot of electronics and physics and such.
She's probably going to be learning language, geography, history, math,
science and such from television shows.

Last night my husband said something really stupid. REALLY stupid. I didn't
say anything to him, but shot him a dirty look.

We had a couple over for whose wedding we're playing recorder. We were
talking about music, and when we were done were talking about games and
this'n'that. The woman has a son Kirby's age and one much younger. We've
known them for years and years, through the SCA. She got divorced and her
husband and his new wife wanted to homeschool the boys, and did for a while,
but the real mom couldn't stand it and so the kids are in school.

Keith's dumb thing was this: He characterized Zoombinis as a "pseudo
educational game."

It really made me angry, because Keith KNOWS how much real math is in that
game. I'm sure if we had had a time-out moment, magically, he would have
said that's not exactly what he meant to say. But that's what he said, and
this mom is already determined not to see learning except in school.

If that's the dumbest thing Keith does this month I will be living entirely
in the lap of luxury, huh? LOL!

So I'm going to find the page Jocelyn Vilter found once about how much math
is in Zoombinis, and forward him the URL at work, tell him it was kind of a
faux pas to say that in front of Sharon, and that will be about it.

Sandra