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Post by robeiae on Dec 7, 2017 9:21:52 GMT -5
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Post by Amadan on Dec 7, 2017 10:41:04 GMT -5
1) Assuming it is genuine, and not something done under his mother's influence/prompting - that kid is both impressive and a little scary. 2) Honestly, I really hate women like this. I've seen more and more of these stories where women, both professional journalists and not, use their children as a focus to draw attention to themselves on social media. She is maybe not quite as bad as Jody Allard, the woman who wrote a WaPo article about how her nice sons might grow up to be rapists and then was dismayed that they didn't take being called potential rapists by their mother in the WaPo very well. But your children should not be pimped out for your attention-whoring.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 10:46:32 GMT -5
Love the kid, who is a child after my own heart. I have a niece who might have written a letter like that (she's terribly bright and quite the skeptic), so I've no trouble believing it's genuine.
But I agree that I am a bit tired of people pimping out their kids for social media attention. It's one thing to share it with your real life friends (a couple of my friends frequently share their kids' funnier school assignments, artwork, etc. with me, which I think it totally fine), but the internet is forever and these are kids.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 7, 2017 15:13:23 GMT -5
I'm thinking if the kid were truly that bright and insightful his spelling might be a tad better.
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Post by poetinahat on Dec 7, 2017 15:46:08 GMT -5
Must we make something of them?
How about a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl..
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 17:56:59 GMT -5
I'm thinking if the kid were truly that bright and insightful his spelling might be a tad better. Intelligence and spelling do not necessarily go together. Indeed even good writing and spelling don't necessarily go together. I understand F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example, was a notoriously poor speller.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 8, 2017 16:21:59 GMT -5
I'm thinking if the kid were truly that bright and insightful his spelling might be a tad better. Intelligence and spelling do not necessarily go together. Indeed even good writing and spelling don't necessarily go together. I understand F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example, was a notoriously poor speller. True and point well made. I'm still going to stick with the opinion that this letter is the result of mom's urging much more than any actual true thought from the child.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 17:01:30 GMT -5
Intelligence and spelling do not necessarily go together. Indeed even good writing and spelling don't necessarily go together. I understand F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example, was a notoriously poor speller. True and point well made. I'm still going to stick with the opinion that this letter is the result of mom's urging much more than any actual true thought from the child. And it could well be. I'm going to hope it was the kid's idea, though, just because I like my kids dark and dour.
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