Too short! Too tall. It’s below the lines. It’s above the lines. It’s taking up half the page! It’s tilted the wrong way. You started in the wrong place. I didn’t realize it a month and a half ago, but there are a lot of ways to write a number not exactly right on lined paper. It took me a month to realize I’d probably found them all, and shared each of them—multiple times—with my newly four-year-old son. I didn’t realize I was doing it wrong until I noticed the way he’d mark a letter down, then await my response with trepidation. He was waiting for me to tell him he’d done it wrong. It hit me: I’d been viewing his homework with way too small an angle. [see comments for more on new-to-me wide angle parenting]
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:11:35 +0000
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