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Oh, no, it isn't. When I went to school in the 80s, there were teachers who were the same and probably there are now too. It seems to be a product of adhering to one 'system', as you said, and saying anything else must be wrong. Stupidity. If a child is reading early, as long as a love of books is inculcated as well and the parents are not just trying to force them to read harder and harder books for the sake of it, all the better! A lifelong love of reading and an early start on that journey is a gift.
 
TheGrandSophy said:
Oh, no, it isn't. When I went to school in the 80s, there were teachers who were the same and probably there are now too. It seems to be a product of adhering to one 'system', as you said, and saying anything else must be wrong. Stupidity. If a child is reading early, as long as a love of books is inculcated as well and the parents are not just trying to force them to read harder and harder books for the sake of it, all the better! A lifelong love of reading and an early start in that journey is a gift.
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And also this includes writing. Look, you can "teach" us to write letters the way you want us to, but honestly, if it won't stick it won't stick. My lowercase "w" look like smaller capital "w." Some letters I don't do curves and only do straight lines probably because it's faster for me. Like "a", "g", "k," "p," "q," and "w" are the biggest culprits in my opinion where people write it differently. Like don't tell me to make my lower case "p" go down and have the tail of it go below the line. I'll write it the way I want to.

Sometimes I feel like teachers need to show that we can write letters in different way. Like in one of my cases, straight lines in a lowercase "w" instead of curves.
 
I was just thinking today that I hadn't seen Mrs. P posting in a while, so I raced over here to see if there was news. Many happy congratulations to Mrs. P, Mr. P, and new Baby Girl P!

Given Mrs. P's affinity for stats, I won't be shocked if Little P is learning her times tables even before she's reading. ;)
 
Huge congrats to Mrs. and baby P! What a beautiful name. I can't wait to hear little baby P stories for years to come :love:
 
Hey GS friends. Just popping in to say thanks for all the congrats. Dee, I have managed to get sleep, though no where near 8 hours obviously. Mostly I fit in two cat naps in during the day then do 2-3 hour shifts between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. between feedings.

Doris is correct the baby's name is Therese. She is named after St. Therese of Lisiuex: http://www.sttherese.com/about.html, a young woman who was a light to the world despite living a short life.

I also have a Vietnamese name for her, "An," which means "peace" or "blessing." The name "An" actually runs on my side of my family -- my brother's three children all share the name "An" as part of their middle name.


deedee1 said:
Our most heartfelt congrats to the whole family of P! and Welcome to our world, little Princess P! :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 agree deedee1! I hope if there are others who are expecting or recently have a child, I'd love to celebrate those folks as well (we could change this thread to the "Our newest GS members" or something. This thread started cause the topic was hijaking skating related threads. Anyway, if there are others, I'd love to hear about it!

To answer your other question deedee, both Mr. P and I learned to read prior to entering school at age 5. Our parents, either directly or via other means made sure we were exposed to language as much as possible. My parents, who were Vietnamese immigrants, didn't necessary have the mastery of the English language, but they did what they could and made show that I watched tons of educational videos during my toddler years. Mr. P's mom was a elementary school reading teacher, so she made sure Mr. P had the basics down early and read to him every night. We plan on reading to our kid asap.

I'm mainly in lurker mode since I don't have a ton of time to post. My baby's eating schedule is so demanding. :laugh: I hope I can post more soon, but hopefully this post will do until next time. :)
 
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Thanks so much for the update Mrs. P, and all the best to you, Mr. P and Therese. I have a friend whose middle name is Therese, and her mother was so into it, she even put the accents (acute *and* grave) over the "e"s. (They were not French, nor of French descent). My friend gave both her daughters French middle names, but no accents.:laugh2:
 
Thanks for the update Mrs. P. I have a special devotion to "The Little Flower of Lisieux," so I was tickled pink to learn you and Mr. P named Baby P after her. :)
 
Beautiful name! And I am glad to hear you are enjoying motherhood so far, Mrs P! I'm sure little Therese will be lighting your world up throughout her life in many wonderful ways.
 
Mrs. P, great news! Thanks so much for letting us share this journey with you. I hope Mr. P and you get some much needed rest soon, and that Baby Therese starts sleeping through the night. Babies vary so much. Our oldest slept through the night within a week of coming home. Our youngest loved company and being entertained in the middle of the night, so he did not sleep through the night for over six months.
 
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Congrats Mrs P to you and your family! Enjoy - because it all goes by so fast.

A (sort of) funny story about waking during the night - my 19 year old daughter is home for the summer and recently sustained a mild concussion (she's fine now). I set my alarm and woke her every 2 hours to get her to talk and make sure she was all right. So the waking during the night never really ends....
 
I hope you are well away from the devastating fire that was reported this morning, Mrs. P.
 
dorispulaski said:
Mrs. P, great news! Thanks so much for letting us share this journey with you. I hope Mr. P and you get some much needed rest soon, and that Baby Therese starts sleeping through the night. Babies vary so much. Our oldest slept through the night within a week of coming home. Our youngest loved company and being entertained in the middle of the night, so he did not sleep through the night for over six months.
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We're not doing too bad. Sleep deprivation yes, but she is relatively calm once she's fed, which allows for 2-2.5 hour stretches where I can get some naps during the day and night. She loves to eat (like her mom, I guess! :) ) so I don't see her sleeping through the night until she can absorb food more efficiently.

Speaking of food: Can use any advice for dealing with low breast milk production. It's getting better each day, but it's really easy to get frustrated. We are supplementing with formula/pumped milk so she's not hungry, but it's psychology hard to deal with the fact that I have to spend 20-30 minutes nursing for so little milk while formula takes like 5 seconds (relatively speaking) to make and provide. I really want the breastfeeding thing to work. I hear oatmeal helps (which is what I'm eating right now)

Mathman said:
I hope you are well away from the devastating fire that was reported this morning, Mrs. P.
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Thankfully no. The fires are up in Wenatchee, which is 2 hours north of me. However, there's no sigh of relief. The relentless heat (100s all week long) and dry conditions makes this area a constant risk for wildfires.
 
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As I remember it, only be sure to take care of yourself-stay hydrated and well fed while breast feeding. You may not feel thirsty, but be sure to drink. You will need somewhat more food than you did pre-pregnancy. And more liquid.

In my own case, garlic avoidance was important if I did not want the baby to smell like shrimp scampi ;)
 
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