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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • A few things:

    Words mean individual words

    Correct, we have another word called ‘letters’. As it pertains to this instance, when you take the letters of the word ‘apple’ and rearrange them alphabetically — they are no longer a word. Unless you would accept aelpp as a spelling of apple.

    1. I sincerely doubt this is the first time this child has seen the term alphabetical order, I would be inclined to think the child is a clever smartass depending on the individual.

    2. Either way, the situation is very simple to handle without breaking the childs self esteem.

    ‘I totally understand why you came to the conclusion you did, and you did write the letters in alphabetical order! However, the instructions say to ‘write the words in alphabetical order’. Try again, I bet you’ll get 100%!’

    The child is most likely just wrong. Teaching them to think critically about their failures is not a problem. Treating them as if failure is some pit they need to forever keep from falling into definitely is, and not helping the child learn to navigate failure is infinitely more detrimental.

    Edit: Nothing is more aggravating than being challenged by bleeding hearts who don’t have enough blood left for their brains. Especially when I take the time to break down why their misplaced empathy is wasted only to receive zero response. Cowardly behavior, truly — children will be left anxiety ridden and logically broken if exposed to your methods.












  • No, the logic still works out it just isn’t nearly as skewed as the article makes it out to be.

    Either you are a night person and forced to be a day person, thus staying up and giving yourself sleep deprivation (hurts your heart among other things) or you manage to create a night schedule where you sleep all day (meaning you will need to supplement your vitamin d levels or, surprise surprise, higher risk of coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, strokes).

    Humans evolved to be active during the day. We also kind of need it for many other reasons than heart disease.