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Alex Gets Diagnosed
February 8, 2008I am happy to report I have an intelligent daughter who has soaked up so much Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon slang the school agreed to admit her as a Nursery 2 student even though she couldn’t recognize a single letter in the alphabet. She has a sense of humor, too, and this - if nothing else - helped endear her to the woman who administered the diagnostic test.
What’s this?
A banana behind clouds!
Alex, no. It’s a moon in front of clouds.
No uy, it’s a banana. Sige baya ko’g eat ug banana. That’s a banana.
Okay. What’s this?
That’s an O.
Look again. It’s a number.
O bitaw na.
To give my daughter credit, the number zero does look like the letter O. And, the sketch was so crudely drawn the crescent moon could pass off for a banana.
The psychometrician said the little one shows quick, raw intelligence. She’s very chatty, creative, and observant, and she talks in a very adult way. However, she doesn’t know many things other kids her age learned a few months, even years, back. She doesn’t know how the letter J looks, for example, and wouldn’t recognize 7 even if it waved at her.
Wett and I burned with shame upon hearing the report. We’ve been neglecting Alex’s education, leaving her to do most of the learning on her own. The way we saw it, she’s quick on her feet anyway, so she’d be able to catch up with her peers once she starts school.
The woman probably understood how terrible we felt because she hurriedly added, Oh but she’s very amusing. She told me she could speak Spanish. She taught me the words Abajo, up, and Vamanos, hurry.
Great. So now, not only does Alex need a little home tutoring, she also needs an exorcism. Dora the Explorer has done and gone taken over her faculties.
Oh, and did I mention she turned four today? Click on the picture so you’ll see the proper welcome we gave her birthday.
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