On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 02:24 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:
I'm talking about the bare minimum of helping them learn the very basics:? this is how you write (forming letters, I mean; not sentences) "
"This is how you write..."
Wait.? I'm not forming letters.? I'm touching a keyboard on a laptop computer.? There are other ways to get these words into these messages, but nobody is "forming letters."?
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-=-or knowing their basic math facts-=-
WOOP!? WOOP!!? The alarm goes off.
"Their"¡ªthat one Individual child's, or those two or three children's (I don't know this mom's details, so picture your own)¡ª"facts"?
Facts just are. I don't have my own basic math facts.? There ARE mathematical realities.? Some I understand well, and some less clearly, and yet I grew up and reproduced.? :-)
To the original questioner:? Please read back through the question. It's well written grammatically and the punctuation and spelling are good, and so I don't feel bad about suggesting going to the next level:? phrases, terminology, word choice.
Others might want to read that as an exercise in seeing how word choices revel clues to thoughts and beliefs.??
None of this should stress or hurt anybody.? It's just words and ideas.??
You're all probably sitting in a comfortable and familiar place, safe.? Don't be afraid.
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Sandra
and the concepts of arithmetic:-=-
And if that child is not yet writing, the for the mom to think to address the child as "you" and say "this is how you write" is a clue to the mom's blockage, maybe.? She thinks there is a way that THAT child must/should/will or should be / will be "forming letters."? In order to write.
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