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Dec 18 2009

Exam Week

Posted by Mugs @ 9:10 am in Family Print This Post Print This Post

Josiah is enduring his first full week of high school exams and has learned the following:

1. “I didn’t think it would be on the test” is a fatal assumption.

2. When you are informed on the bus going to school that you are studying the incorrect review sheet, pull out the correct review sheet and cram as much information into your brain as possible.

3. There is a point in the middle of the week when your brain overloads and you can no longer think clearly. This usually takes place the night before your most difficult exam.

4. You know you and your classmates have experienced equality of  misery when everyone starts complaining upon leaving the exam room. Unfortunately, this is not the last time you will say, “That was the hardest test I’ve ever taken.”

5. After the exam, don’t look back in your notes to see if you got it wrong. It’ll just make your head hurt.

6. Your second wind appears suddenly just prior to the last exam.

7. A backpack is amazingly light when you go home for Christmas break.

Oct 26 2009

My Stomach Hurts

Posted by Mugs @ 9:10 am in Family Print This Post Print This Post

When children attend Kindergarten, they quickly learn new phrases. They hear their classmates use a particular phrase, then observe the response the child receives after it is spoken. They store up this knowledge in their little heads and soon try this new phrase out on their parents.

After attending preschool for a month, Zeke began to tell me “I have a headick.” I was a bit suspicious of this phrase since he only used it immediately after I asked him to do something he did not want to do.  Over the course of time, he came to realize that “I have a headick” was not generating the desired response.

Therefore, he was happy to arrive at Kindergarten and discover the more powerful phrase “my stomach hurts.” Parents cannot ignore this phrase as easily as “I have a headick” for fear the child may actually throw up, or as Zeke would say, “get the throats.”

Yesterday, Zeke was at the piano playing his new practice piece with his right hand only. He is supposed to play: 1. Right hand only 2. Left hand only 3. Both hands together. However, he does not like this practice order. He would prefer to play only the right hand, so he can focus on singing along with the tune, LOUDLY.

I walked into the room and told him he also needed to play the left hand and then both hands together on the song. To this statement, he replied, “my stomach hurts.” I found it remarkable that his stomach only hurt when he had to play the left hand. So, I told him he had to play it anyway.

He started his left hand practicing, but it was not going very well. Not believing this was evidence of great pain in his stomach, I went to find reinforcements. I found Josiah and told him to go and help Zeke with his practicing. Josiah looked up at me and replied, “my stomach hurts.”