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In a message dated 5/19/03 11:14:45 AM, treegoddess@... writes:

<< He picked up that stuff from watching Arthur <gag>, schooled cousins,
and from other adults (in stores, the dentist, etc.) going "What grade
are you in?" and stuff like that. So far he's viewing the age "levels"
as things like getting to the next "level"/challenge in a computer game
and that's ok. He's mostly past the "but I have to be X years old to do
____ " bit. >>

Aha!! Two ideas:

Holly and another homeschooling family (with three kids her age +/-)
LOVE Arthur. They love the soap opera of it. <g>
They discuss how it has changed over the years, how some characters have
changed specifically.

They see that and Dragontales as PBS propaganda to make kids like school, and
to help kids adjust to the fact that in school other kids won't always be
nice. (Barney, too.) They're very analytical about that. It's like studying
a foreign culture for them, almost, sometimes.

If your son is running a parallel of ages and stages, tell him he has the
codes to by pass going level by level as the schoolkids have to do. Tell him
he the programmer's codes to come in at any point and to save! He can go to
level one last if he wants, and doesn't have to go in order.

Sandra