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The Mrs. P baby thread

Welcome to the world, little Princess P! This is lovely news to wake up to! Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. P! :):cheer::cheer::cheer:

Giving three cheers for the happy occasion!

I hope the Avatar cat is recovering well, too?
 
Congrats to Mr.P & Mrs.P. & welcome to our world baby P!!!
My little advice for you, Mrs.P.,
sleep, whenever you can!
 
:clap: :cheer: Congrats to the P Family on the arrival of "Baby Girl P"!!!!
 
CaroLiza_fan said:
Ach, sure I was only messing with you! :laugh:

And sorry about my inaccurate use of terminology. I don't know much about astrology. Which is why I found it so fascinating when I found out that you practice it.

I'm probably not going to be online again for the rest of the day (transferring everything over to a new hard drive), so I hope the first full day goes well for the "P family".

CaroLiza_fan
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Oy! Mea culpa! Or something like that.

;)

Astrology is fun if you don't take it TOO seriously. It can tell you a great deal about personalities and general influences, but as far as predicting the future...Well let's just say I still haven't found out the winning Powerball/Lotto numbers from any astrological chart. Damn! :(
 
Our most heartfelt congrats to the whole family of P! and Welcome to our world, little Princess P! :hb::hb:

Great news, indeed. At what age do children usually start to learn/read abc... in US btw? at 5, or 6 I guess? Why, we need to let this wonderful GS Forum survive another 5-6 years at least, so that princess P sneak into the Forum lurking Archives nonchalantly, find out there IS a thread on her own arrival and get surprised very happily one day. Wait. We all know Mrs P is some woman with such wisdom and grace, her daughter should start reading abc by age 4. Okay then four years. To prevent the forum from closedown, please be a good boy and be a good girl as much as you can for four years, everyone! :biggrin:

Since Mrs. P is such active poster also one of our moderators, she gets so much attention and love from GS members on her baby arrival. But I'm pretty sure there are so many other babies recenly born among other GS members who are not-so-much active and/or normally visit and only read the forum. Thus, my personal warm-hearted congrats, too, to all these newly born babies and will-be-born soon/in the near future babies of other GS members! :)
 
deedee1 said:
Our most heartfelt congrats to the whole family of P! and Welcome to our world, little Princess P! :hb::hb:

Great news, indeed. At what age do children usually start to learn/read abc... in US btw? at 5, or 6 I guess? Why, we need to let this wonderful GS Forum survive another 5-6 years at least, so that princess P sneak into the Forum lurking Archives nonchalantly, find out there IS a thread on her own arrival and get surprised very happily one day. Wait. We all know Mrs P is some woman with such wisdom and grace, her daughter should start reading abc by age 4. Okay then four years. To prevent the forum from closedown, please be a good boy and be a good girl as much as you can for four years, everyone! :biggrin:

Since Mrs. P is such active poster also one of our moderators, she gets so much attention and love from GS members on her baby arrival. But I'm pretty sure there are so many other babies recenly born among other GS members who are not-so-much active and/or normally visit and only read the forum. Thus, my personal warm-hearted congrats, too, to all these newly born babies and will-be-born soon/in the near future babies of other GS members! :)
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I learned the ABC's probably before I was 5. My parents claim that the first word(s) I learned how to spell was "School Bus" because of a school bus puzzle we had, and I think we still have it. Lol.
 
Great congratulations to Mrs. P, Mr. P and all their family on such a lovely occasion! All the best as you start out on this wonderful journey together. :points:
 
I don't remember how old I was, but I do know the first two words, I learned how to read, from the light switch: OFF and ON.

My methods were always to experiment. I think I was 3 or 4.

My mother was reamed out by the kindergarten teacher when my brothers got to school already reading, so she would not teach me. I was determined to learn myself. From there, I insisted she read the same little Golden Book every night as my bedtime story, "Who Lives Here." or Guess Who Lives Here, something like that

Each day I would be able to read a little more of it myself...
 
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Bem vinda ao mundo, Princess P!

And yay!, I guessed it was a girl. When do you plan on taking her to an ice rink? :biggrin:
 
That's like the scene in To Kill A Mockingbird when Scout is so upset. Teacher here who has never understood why any teacher would object to a child reading before school. :disapp:
 
TheGrandSophy said:
That's like the scene in To Kill A Mockingbird when Scout is so upset. Teacher here who has never understood why any teacher would object to a child reading before school. :disapp:
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I read that book in 9th grade....well I had no choice because my English class had to read it. Like seriously....You could use the student as a "helper" during reading lessons. You know?!
 
apology for OT but thanks a lot, cheerknithanson & doris. :) Okay, everyone, three more years at earlist, five more years at latest probably! ;)

ETA Interesting to know in some cultures teachers do not like children to be able to read before school... thanks again doris & TheGrandSophy. :)
 
cheerknithanson said:
I read that book in 9th grade....well I had no choice because my English class had to read it. Like seriously....You could use the student as a "helper" during reading lessons. You know?!
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I taught the book for years. I always interpreted that as a brand new young teacher who was gobsmacked and had no idea what to do with the child. Also, remember it takes place in the early 1930s, not today.
 
louisa05 said:
I taught the book for years. I always interpreted that as a brand new young teacher who was gobsmacked and had no idea what to do with the child. Also, remember it takes place in the early 1930s, not today.
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I know. But it's still horrible to think that openness was a "crime" and rules rules rules and segregation segregation segregation was the way to go back then...
 
In the 50's, when I went to elementary school, the hot, new thing was look-say. Phonics were supposed to be damaging to the child. And chances are, if your mom or dad taught you to read, you learned phonics. Consequently, the party line for newer teachers was that parents should not teach the kids to read because they would teach them wrong.

Oddly enough, Scout's experiences really resonated with my grandson when he read To Kill a Mockingbird in school. As part of a school project on the book, he wrote a song about it, which included the lines:- "I read just like I breathe...it never had to be taught to me."

So I guess this attitude on the part of teachers is not wholly an artifact of the 30's or the 50's.
 
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