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Re: â��Please Stop Helping Usâ��  

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (3)
Tue, 09 Jun 20 3:57 PM | 23 view(s)
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AWESOME !!!

Ya know, when I was in school I was able to retain almost 95 % of everything I read or heard. I never needed to bring books home to study or read.. My daughters got this same thing from me.
For someone who does not consider himslef to have natural aptitude for math, indeed, he set the standard for excellence.. He also may have an underlying gift of memory he is not aware of. I personally was tested by the High School and university. They discovered my reading retention rate to be exceptionally high.

I did the same thing on a science test in high school to a whole class of seniors whose highest score was below 50. I had over 100 with the additional bonus questions..

Teacher wound up letting all the others retake the exam and just gave me the merited grade.

Now, I did study and review all the contents in the book we had and because of that I had inadvertantly memorized most of it. Normally I do not bring books home for homework assignemnts or stuff because I do nt need to.

Joey sounds like he may have a similar gift, as my one son in law also does.. He too was highly gifted in mathematics and sciences and was paid by Duke UNiversity to attend their School as a doctorate candidate out of undergraduate school..

He still finished behind my youngest daughter who later married him in class rankings. She was the Valedictorian and a double major valedictorian, SUMMA CUM LAUDE ather school. She studies hard and organizes unlike me.

Joey is an interesting study... I do not read about many like him anymore so he is definitely naturally gifted...

Kinda freaky to have a child that is that gifted and smart isn't it??? lol!!!

Indeed. Know that feeling... Its a great one. You always want your kids to have it better than you did. So that's a great start.... Thumbs Up Thumbs Up




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Re: ‘Please Stop Helping Us’
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 09 Jun 20 5:02 AM 		Msg. 01602 of 60008

micro:

Re: "Zim has nailed it with that post... My children are living proof... Likely De's son will be an example if De will just stay out of Joey's way. lol!!"It's true. I read him to sleep from the time he was old enough to understand. I remember reading The Wind in the Willows, Animal Farm, The Martian Chronicles, the entire 'Little House' series, Charlie and the Chocolate Family (he later played Willie Wonka), etc. to him - sometimes reading until I was hoarse.

Flashback: We were on a train and I was reading 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' to Joey when we got to a line describing Mike Teevee's cowboy pajamas, covered with pistols. Joey's eyes grew huge, and he started uncontrolled laughing. "Pistols! Pistols!" was all we could get out of him.

He was still very young, and "Pistol" was the term his grandpa had devised for a certain body part. He hadn't heard it used any other way. Oh, the image it had to have painted in his head!

He couldn't stop laughing for several minutes. Once we figured out why, neither could we.

I don't remember when we finally stopped reading him to bed, but one day it ended and I was a bit sad. It was the end of an era, with a lot of great stories behind us.

We also had his radio set to classical music and played it all night long from the day he was born until he was maybe 8 or 9. I think it helped turn him into who he is now.

I don't know if I mentioned this, but he finally settled on majors in Math and Computer Science. There aren't many math majors at the university. It's a hard course of study. I'm proud of him for pursuing that, especially since he doesn't think he has any natural aptitude for it. Last week, he had a 'Real Analysis' mid-term. He was the only student who didn't get free points from the teacher - who had to give them to everyone else to boost the curve. He'd scored 100 without them. I think that's pretty good for someone with no natural aptitude.

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