MG - The Matrix Re-wired

dangers

MG - my boy upgraded his library card when I think he turned 11. This allowed him to borrow books from the young adult section.

greenbee

MG... something for you on linkedin

Memory_Girl

Been on there greenbee

Righto!!! I have booked and paid for our tickets to take DS1 to see the Mindstore seminar on the 3rd of March.

So calling anyone who knows the centre of Glasgow - where would be the best place to park for the whole of Saturday - from about 8 am to 6pm, and how much is it likely to cost me?

The event is being held at the Concert Hall BTW

MG

ETA Been and upgraded his library card BTW - ta for the suggestion

robsmum_2

Would someone please tell me to stop playing with quilt blocks when I should be doing other things:eek:Having had 2 previous attempts to get this right I now think as long as I measure and iron constantly I may get there! Is that right?

tellmeitsfriday

stop playing with quilt blocks when you should be doing other things!

Memory_Girl

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

stop playing with quilt blocks when you should be doing other things!

Boy you are tough!!! Have you no idea how addictive tinkering with patchwork can be??

MG

The_Dragon

robsmum wrote: »

Would someone please tell me to stop playing with quilt blocks when I should be doing other things:eek:Having had 2 previous attempts to get this right I now think as long as I measure and iron constantly I may get there! Is that right?

Put them aside for an hour then come back

maryb

Had no end of grief from the school about DD1's reading. She was late learning to read - bored rigid by the Oxford Reading tree. I told them I was also late learning to read, it ran in the family. Dammit George Eliot was a late reader (true - she was considered very backward as a small child). In the meantime DD1 knew all the Greek and Norse myths etc and would debate such interesting questions as whether Hades or Zeus was the elder of the gods (answer Hades because he was one of the children that Chronos swallowed - now there's a dysfunctional family!!)

My mother was an infants teacher back in the 1940s and she said they had a concept of reading readiness - there is a time when a child is ready and it ain't necessarily the same for each child. Looks like that theory was no longer fashionable.

Anyway, she did learn to read, surprise surprise and then there was no stopping her. So then they complained she wasn't reading widely enough (she always loved myth and fantasy) and I should get her reading more 'contemporary' depictions. So off we go to Waterstone's and have a browse through some of the recommended titles. Came home and she was very quiet. Turns out she had picked up a book intended to help children identify with the pain of parents' divorce. She had never heard of divorce - her school was perhaps unusual in that there were no single parents in her year. Floods of tears later, promise me you and Daddy won't get divorced. No darling I promise. But how do you KNOW??
In the end I had to fall back on saying we were Catholics and they don't get divorced. She was young enough that that satisfied her. I was quite cross with the school for trying to force her into something she wasn't ready for.

I remember she was caught reading once at the back of a chemistry lesson. When the teacher saw it was Homer's Iliad, he said he couldn't give her detention for that, just don't do it again. She's now at Oxford reading classics

Memory_Girl

Montessori calls it the "sensitive period" - and I think any Mother can tell you exactly when their lovely is ready for crawling / walking/ reading / writing - whatever flavour of education is currently in vogue.

Early tea tonight as kids are quite tired after last night - so hopefully a nice cosy evening with a book is also in the near future for me.

MG

ClootiesMum

I have been lurking - don't seem to have time or energy to post though as soooooo busy @ work & am now back to 9-5 rather than 8-4 - means longer travelling times too:mad: but my choice - I live in beautiful place that I wouldn't swap for living near work. People in my work come up to this area for a day out !!!!! And I'm lucky enough to live here

Anyhow day off tomorrow with DH - it's his Mum's birthday & the cousins are coming across from Glasgow to put flowers down @ the crem - we can't very well say that we were working then - could we....

But looking forward to seeing the house in daylight & getting rid of the now dismantled greenhouse & the last of the glass (Bummer of a storm). Conserv & house roof were fixed on Monday & Tuesday so we can also spend time cleaning the conserv & getting the house back to normality.

MG - let DS1 read what he wants - I did & turned out an interesting, if eccentric individual (as all us Matrixites are).
Would Cry, The Beloved Country be too much for him just now - I read it at about his age & loved it.
Also - has he read The Boy In Striped Pyjamas? - And what about I am David? .....Yes - I was a weird child, but loved them all.

Anyhow - talking of books - I need to go & read a chapter at the moment, then have a 15 min TADA - & the evening will progress as such...

Take care - I'll pop in again later

CM