Kids and spellings!

[GarethB]

Just been running through my daughters spellings and toilet is one.

Asked her to spell it and what did the little madam doo?

She spelled toilet as follows; pssssssssstttt!

And I thought I sent her to a good school

[Anne B]

It only gets worse. My 8 year old has such bad attitude and is so cheeky.
And i am saying all the things my mum used to say to me. Its gone full circle on me.
Oh no and i've got two more to go through it all with. HELP

Anne

[GarethB]

I am glad there is no way my wife and I can have another kid when you put it like that

For all her faults I can not imagine life without my little monster

[Andrew MacLean]

When my daughter was very little she had trouble pronouncing "th" sounds. They came out as "f".

After much struggle, she mastered the difference bwtween the two. The problem was that she was left confused about where the "f" was appropriate, and where she ought to be saying "th". One way in which this came out was her spelling of the word "finger"

Yes, it was there on the page in front of us "thinger".

In truth, I quite like the idea that the digit with which one points to objects ought to be called "the thinger"

Andrew

[GarethB]

Where I grew up in the south, th was always pronounced with and f! Was not until I moved to the north east that things changed. By that time I was 10.

[John Smith]

My dad was having a conversation with my cousin, who (at age 3 or thereabouts) was apt to call her digit a "tinger".

"No, finger" said my dad. "Tinger" was the reply. This went back and forth for a few minutes much to the amusement of all.

Finally, she admitted defeat. She held up her thumb and announced, pleadingly "tum then".

Cute

[Anne B]

Gareth

Sorry to hear that you and your wife cannot have anymore kids. That must be very hard.
My three drive me mad hourly but i would not be without them. And they are so lovely when they are asleep!

John

We all have "tingers" in our house thats what my son calls them , and its stuck.

Anne

[GarethB]

Anne,

Gemma was born on the IVF programme, we thought early on we were going to be parents of twins! The speed Gemma moves I sometimes think we have more than one child.

Our main problem is, she does not want a bay brother or sister (just as well really) but she would really like an elder sister! Now where do you get one of those?

Just spoken to her teacher who was releived to find I was dyslexic which explains why Gemma findssome things hard.

Numeracy she is where she should be for a child of her age.
Literacy she is a bit behind but progressed further than predicted.
Hand writting she is border line of being where she was predicted to be.

On the whole she is still behind where she should be, but she is well on the way to catching up. If she carries on at this rate, next year she should be at the 'normal' level.

Going to give her a present now.

[Louise Pembroke]

I couldn't say broderie anglais as a kid, so I would say 'onglais blonglais'!!
Andrew I had this navy dress with little white/red flowers on it, but because it had a white collar I referred to it as my 'vicars dress'!! I was only 9!!
I've had a food fight on another online forum I am a member of, and I got hit over the head with a cake tin!!

[John Smith]

Well, Lou... at least we're not violent. Dirty, I grant you, but not violent