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Galen Wed 09-Jul-14 16:24:10

My DGD age 3, not content with the choice of triangles or squares for sandwiches, has just asked darling daughter for trapezoids!

janeainsworth Wed 09-Jul-14 16:34:27

shock Have you been feeding DGD these geometrical terms to wind your darling daughter up, Galen?grin

Galen Wed 09-Jul-14 16:37:24

No! She has a shape posting box and knows most of them. Sometimes confuses a a trapezoid and a rhombus though.
I would point out her mother scored 115% in a maths exam at university?hmm

POGS Wed 09-Jul-14 16:59:24

I do hate it when a 3 year old knows more than I do. grin

I wish I had listened at school.

janeainsworth Wed 09-Jul-14 17:00:30

What was the extra 15% for?confused
No don't answer that on second thoughtsgrin

Galen Wed 09-Jul-14 17:12:08

Being a know it all I should think. She hasn't changed.
I'm meeting them at Slimbridge wetlands trust tomorrow. I shall be chasing toddler round WellyBoot land while darling daughter splashes with tiddler.
(I chase on my mobility scooter)

hildajenniJ Wed 09-Jul-14 17:22:45

When DS was six he spent the day with my mother. She was highly amused when he asked for a peice of paper and then proceeded to write a very long list of Roman numerals. She thought he was going to draw her a picture!!!grin

Anne58 Wed 09-Jul-14 17:55:39

I think I would have given her a safely blunt knife and left her to get on with it!

Nelliemoser Wed 09-Jul-14 18:37:01

Galen Be careful not to end up in the drink on your scooter! I could imagine the headlines.

My grandson has one of those shape sorters. What does he do? He just pulls the lid off and puts them in through the top. Clever lad my DGS!

Galen Wed 09-Jul-14 18:45:02

The only drink I'll be in danger from is vodka!

Crafting Wed 09-Jul-14 21:23:20

Galen back to your original post, when I made sandwiches for my DGD and asked squares or triangles her reply was "I'd like them like daddy cut's them please" 20 minutes and umpteen questions later we discovered that he made little houses with windows and doors cut out grin

Galen Wed 09-Jul-14 21:59:02

shock
Don't think I'll suggest that to DGD!
Darling daughter would give me my head in my hands to play with sad

annodomini Wed 09-Jul-14 22:59:42

Galen, did/does your DGD watch Little Einstein videos? I found that they taught my GC some very abstruse vocabulary about shapes.

whitewave Thu 10-Jul-14 09:59:19

Good grief! the most my daughter can get my GS's to do is their maths homework just before the due date and occasionally after!

whitewave Thu 10-Jul-14 10:01:51

Talking of little darlings we are soon off to our annual Cornish surfing holiday with our two - the eldest will be 14 in September so we are wondering how many more years - if any - we will be making the annual trek. Sad really but on the other hand it frees up quite a bit of cash for another holiday for us!!!

Deedaa Thu 10-Jul-14 20:46:53

GS1 (aged 7) wasn't feeling well this morning and didn't really want to go to school - very unusual for him! He warned his teacher that he felt ill and therefore she might find he was a bit cantankerous! Fortunately she's used to his vocabulary. (He later recovered enough to get into trouble for wrestling in class!)

harrigran Sat 12-Jul-14 18:54:18

GD1 entered a self portrait into the art and craft section of their village fete and won the competition. DS won the photographic section with a picture of noctilucent clouds. I have an artistic family smile