Friday, December 3, 2010
Nobody Move I've Dropped My Brain
it has come to my realization that somewhere between the time i was a teenager and assumed i knew it all and becoming a parent i have inadvisedly miss placed all my knowledge. This became a a honest fact when last night while helping my son do his homework i did not understand any of it. now mind you i was a pretty good student in school A/B honor roll and in college the same but when faced with 5th grade math last night i was lucky i could make 1 + 1 = 2. i mean he is learning things i am sure i did not see till i was in 8th grade or have i just forgotten everything i have ever learned.. so it made me think do we really get wiser as we get older or do we just pretend we do and the actually reality is we are slowly leaking our brains out onto our pillows every night and becoming more senile.
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this is a very good point that you bring up! my goodness, i do think we get wiser with age, however math has never been my cup of tea and i dread the day when my children need my assistance in that department.
hopefully my husband can step it up in that department :)
xoxo
LOL! Loved the "leaking brain" idea! You may have figured it out!
My thoughts are that as we get older and live more of life... we become more wise in other areas of life that are more important. I also believe in the theory... "if you don't use it, you'll lose it!" So, if we don't use those math skills (or whatever) on a regular basis, then they get lost in our brain somewhere because we have crammed many other things on top of them! :)
I think math is something you have to constantly practice to keep in your brain. It's been way too long since I've done 5th grade math. I probably would have no clue, either.
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@lindsay and @becky well i hope i'm wiser though after homework last night the jury is still out on that.
@jumble Mash ooowww i like awards thank you and darn that thought of practice maybe i need to have homework
@Tanya when i find them i promise to return yours
I hope my brain does not leak anymore or I'll be back drawing stick people.. Kids school work is hard..and I went to college.. then again, I did fail Math and the teacher felt sorry for me because I took it in summer schol again and still failed, so he passed me with a "D"..
Thank goodness my granddaughters adopted parents were both math teachers at one time or another. I completely understand what you meanl.
Becca, I don't think you've dropped your brain. I think these days they are teaching the kids the same stuff we learned, except they go about it in these long, winded ways. The other day my daughter was doing addition: 37+21, but instead of teaching them how to do it with one number on top of the other, and let's add these bad boys, the 37 was broken down into 30+7, the the 21 into 20+1, the 30+20, then 7+1, then beat me over the head with a shoe, are you kidding me????
Becca, pop over to my place sometime, I gave you an award sweetness.
Lord Becca, I can relate to what you are saying here, math was always my strong suit all of my life and numbers do nothing more than confuse me now, I do think the kids now are being taught things in elementry school that we didn't learn until way later in our schooling life.
I have five kids and each one of them at some point or another has made me feel stupid before they left elementary school! It's usually been related to math...
I'm sorry to say it gets no better as they (and you) get older.
I think I have no brain left most days. Glad to know it has all leaked out on the pillow case and is now in the sewer with the wash water......
I thought I was just never smart! You have now corrected me! Thanks for sharing! =0D
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