how good are you at math?

2,794???

you got it!!!

was it easy for you? Am I just slow?

No, I wouldn't call it easy and you are definitely not slow.

I use Trig, Geomoetry, and Algebra every day at work, but do not ask me to balance a friggin check book!

Thank you. The last math I took was college prob and stats, that was easy for me, but it's logical.

Doesn't that seem tough for 2nd grade? My kid is a math wiz like my husband. I'm jealous.

I probably wouldn't have been able to do it in the 2nd grade, but these kids today are sharper than we were. My son impresses me regularly with his math abilities. I am pretty sure that my daughter will as well. Her Dad, although clueless in women, is a brilliant man, and she takes after him in a lot of ways. She screwed up mega big time yesterday. I told him about it, and he is po'd. He is disciplining her today for it, so I didn't have to get too evil on her. I am diggin this!

I know, you told me about the screw up! That's too funny..Someday you'll look back and laugh, but how embarrasing!

And aren't a lot of men clueless about women?

A day after the incident I still am not laughing. She is darn lucky that I felt like hell yesterday.

No man is more clueless about women's emotional needs and wants than he is.

sometimes my husband is pretty woman-stupid.

Feelin' better Polly?
Been worried about ya...

You ok Polly? And it can't be worse than having a teen-aged daughter. Mine turned 17 this week and I made her a birthday cake--and she wouldn't eat it! (I wanted to throw it at her, lol--HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!) If eye rolling was an olympic sport, she'd be the gold medalist!

My 6 year old daughter has coined the word "WHATEVER" with a attitude that is unprecedented.

(OBVIOUSLY, she did not get that from her mother!!!) :shock:

lol..Doesn't she like the Cheetah girls?

Yes, she loves them, and Hilary Duff.

I thought so. I've always thought Hilary Duff is a bit too big for her britches, like Amanda Bynes. Oh well, who am I to judge? Thank goodness I have a boy, not a girl. I don't like girls...LOL, remember what I told you about girls on the phone Polly? I didn't mean that LITERALLY!

Polly your 6 year old sounds like my 9 year. Ever noticed how kids think that they are grown and that they know more than their parents!

My daughter loved to argue - about anything and everything - from the time she was about 8 until she was 17. Then, just like that, when she turned 18, she grew up! She didn't argue anymore. She looked at both sides of a story and then would think before she spoke. Today, she's 29 and a lot of fun. So hang in there, it doesn't last forever.

I'm so glad I have a boy, not a girl. I wouldn't know what to do with a girl. My 7-yr-old son is my best buddy..He is insightful, and funny, and brilliant. He's the best thing that my husband and I have ever accomplished.

Come to think of it, I had the same issues with my 21-year old daughter when she was my little one's age--and she floored me on her last visit home. She asked me what parenting school that my husband and myself went to--as we were so good at it that she wanted to go there too! After I picked up my jaw (it fell on the floor during this, lol...) and told her that it was the School of Hard Knocks--and the first thing that she had taught me was that babies don't break, since I dropped her at least twice!

Isn't it amazing how they do an about-face? I also have four boys, and I have to agree - I think boys are easier to deal with than girls when they're younger. They don't play the mind games like girls do. You know exactly what they're thinking and, if they're doing something wrong, the guilt is written all over their faces.

I never had boys, but my friends who do all say the same thing. My girls are great kids, but man, the drama I have had to deal with...

Girls are great because when they're little, you can dress them up in frills and bows and clips. As they get older, like you said, they go through the "drama time," and then when they get to be adults, they can be your best confidante. Boys, on the other hand, are always, like finsfan13 said, your "buddy" from day one, and that doesn't change. Where girls eventually grow up, I don't think boys ever do. They're always goofing off. A couple weeks ago, my 30-year-old son was here, and my 18-year-old son told him he was getting "old and bald." My 30 year old chased him around the outside of the house with a bucket of cold water. They were at it for a good hour. My daughter was here, too. She just shook her head.

Ok...Snotty kid story time...

My cousin Summer (Who just turned 13....EEK!)was three when I had this experience with her. I was babysitting her.

They had this bear shaped cookie jar on their kitchen table. She got up and slammed the lid down on it. I turned around and said "Don't do that Summer-It will bust!" She said...

"Yeah....And when I do....You'll say "SON OF A B****"

I said, "What did you say?"

She said, "I SAAAAAAAAAID...WHEN I DOOOOOOOOO YOU'LL SAY SON OF A B****."

It took everything I had not to laugh (I didn't want to encourage..lol) at this little 30 lb little devil...lol I had to put her in time out...lol

It's amazing what kids will say sometimes what they learn from adults. Things you think they don't hear, but later they repeat. Both of my kids learned the F word in kindergarden and said it loud and proud when they came home from school one day, like there was nothing wrong with it. Of course, they had no idea what it meant they just heard it from another kid at school.