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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Who says TV isn't educational?

So, I'm in the kitchen making dinner (have you noticed that an inordinately large percentage of my stories start that way? That's no coincidence) and Child 2 comes in and asks...

"How many is 7 plus 7 plus 7?"

So, while I cook and clean, we spend the next 10 or so minutes with me trying to figure out how to get him to figure it out on his own (because... the truth is... I don't know). I had him draw 3 sets of 7 hash marks and then count them all. (Teachers? Did I do that right? I don't really understand that new-fangled "Every Day" Math. Who the hell needs to use math every day?)

Finally he figures it out and then he asks

"How many days is a week?"

"7," I tell him, to which he proudly announces...

"In the commercial I just saw, the weed killer is going to keep the weeds dead for THREE WEEKS. That's 21 days!!"

He was so excited.

Thank you, TV: Mama's little helper.....

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flyingqueenb 38p · 731 weeks ago

Yay for teachers that are NOT us!!! Especially TV! Hell, we're paying for cable so it's practically private school, right? ;-)
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jillsmo 103p · 731 weeks ago

HA HA HA!!

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Brian · 731 weeks ago

This is great. I can use this to justify my baseball watching. Learning to count to 3 and 4, all sorts of math. cable TV as private school is classic.

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jillsmo 103p · 731 weeks ago

There's a LOT of math in baseball.

Math is hard. :(

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Squatlo · 731 weeks ago

I'm wondering how wonderful the new math formula is going to be when kids start asking, "Dad? What's a four hour erection?"
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jillsmo 103p · 731 weeks ago

As long as that question starts with "Dad" it's not my problem

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Kelly · 731 weeks ago

@Brandi - that makes it a tax deduction, right?!

TV is our favorite babysitter. Has been since the boys discovered it. Thank God for Bubble Guppies, Wubzy and Dino frickin' Dan.
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Lady Estrogen · 731 weeks ago

LOL. Love it. I'm glad to see it works cuz I'm totally going to rely on TV to raise my kids. ;)
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Amanda · 731 weeks ago

I think the fact that he saw it on TV and wanted to figure it out counts as "Every Day" math. I'm the bad parent who when my kid questions stuff I say, "Just learn it for the test. You'll never use it again."
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jillsmo 103p · 731 weeks ago

Proof that NCLB works

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dawn 58p · 731 weeks ago

fuckin weeds. They deserve to die!

gawd--i loathe the day i have to help with anything involving math.

since the Old Man works in the industry, we actually DO get to write off our tv and anything involving media entertainment as "research". It's kinda awesome. Best. babysitter. EVER.

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Lizbeth · 731 weeks ago

I passed mine a calculator when he was three. Momma's other little helper... : )
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Gini · 731 weeks ago

Totally glad I'm not the only mom out there that says things like, "why don't you tell me" because I am barely able to balance my checkbook without issue.

As for television, it's the only reason my kids know broken Spanish and Chinese!
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jillsmo 103p · 731 weeks ago

LMAO! That's hilarious

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Big Daddy · 731 weeks ago

Yay weed killer! Um, aren't you like a bookeeper or something? Do your clients know you can't add or multiply?

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jillsmo 103p · 731 weeks ago

It's amazing what technology can do these days

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Amanda · 731 weeks ago

If only more bloggers would use spell check. Some of the stuff I read (not here) on a daily basis hurts my eyes.
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Amy · 731 weeks ago

LOL! Too funny!
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jillsmo 103p · 731 weeks ago

What DOES rhyme with Willis, anyway? I'll go find out....

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Lanita · 731 weeks ago

See, TV isn't the bad, evil thing everyone wants us to believe it is.
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tulpenelefanten 28p · 731 weeks ago

That must be the hard core planet destroying week killer... cause the earth friendly organic shit kills NOTHING.
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Rhonda@Laugh Quotes · 731 weeks ago

It took my daughter about a year to figure out that sometimes when I ask her how to spell things, it is because I want to know if she knows, and other times I just want to know,
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embracebedrestblog 15p · 731 weeks ago

Sometimes I wonder why we send them to school at all. Between "Your Baby Can Read", Dora, and weed killer commercials the kids are getting all they need right in our own homes!

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kamaness 25p · 731 weeks ago

Wait. You mean I'm actually meant to use maths?
I thought that was something the teachers made up because they hated us.
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I actually like weed killer ads. Something about killing the weeds maked me smirk.
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MT2B 81p · 731 weeks ago

I taught for 7 years. This "new math" crap they have is ridiculous. It is harder to figure out how to do it than to just use your damn fingers. And weed killer that lasts only 3 weeks. That's crap too. Isn't it supposed to keep the weeds dead for like, ever?

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