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Sounds like Richard will be a great accountant some day... you ought
to get him to do your taxes come April. :-)
--- In , "Debbie Feder" <deborahfederlmt@h...>
wrote:
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> --- In , Carrie Poersch <algiz02@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Wow Deb! How old is Richard? I'm lucky to be able to do simple
> addition in my head .
>
> ....Yes I can relate Carrie :) I am mentally deficient in this area
> and it stresses me out just to have to do those simple equations...
> He, on the other hand, has an innate love of numbers. He is
> fascinated with them... The bigger the number the better... When he
> was around 5 years old, and at that time we had no tv connection so
> once in a while we watched videos, but there was plenty of time for
> pursuing other things like reading and more creative stuff, I found
> him lying on the floor in his room, with a notebook in which he was
> creating columns and columns of math equations... I asked him what
> he was doing and he told me that he was creating a "multiplication
> table for the number 5". It started at 1x5 and went up to around
> 500! I noticed this interest in "ordering" things and numbers, when
> he was very young... At one year old he had more fun playing with
> his blocks by placing them in a line on the floor from one end of
> the room to the other, and placing the blocks in size ascending
> order... Another cute thing I noticed was, even when he would read
> a book, the excitement, for him, came from "accumulating" chapters
> read... He was reading Harry Potter by kindergarten, again during
> the tv free time, and he would come from his room to report on how
> far he had gotten in the book... every hour he'd say "I'm on page
> 78" then "I'm on page 100" etc.... It was the numbers that gave
him
> the thrill... Last thing, I'll mention in this long non-diet post,
> oh did I mention I like food?, is, one time he came over to me with
> the large Yellow pages and told me with excitement in his voice,
> that "hey mom, this book has over 1000 pages!" Clearly it wasn't
> the content of the "book" but just the amount of pages that
> interested him.... I think he wants to be an astrophysicist when he
> grows up... I wouldn't doubt it if he does do that.. Where else can
> you use "astronomical" numbers on a regular basis... He loves it,
> and I don't know where he got it from, but it's great!
>
> > Here's a good quote I saw today, wanted to share it with you all.
> Have a great day guys!
> > Carrie :)
> "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
> don't try."
> Beverly Sills
>
> ....It figures. Those operas always end with someone meeting their
> doom! :) LOL
> Peace,
> Deb :)
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