A grandson who started kindergarten this year by using distance learning

[Kaleva]

The teacher was teaching the class the letters of the alphabet and showed a picture of an ant with the word Ant next to it. Ant starts with the letter "A". But the picture bothered my grandson who interrupted the teacher and the class and told them that the picture of the ant was incorrect because it showed the insect only having 4 legs. An actual ant, my grandson declared, has 6 legs. Once satisfied that everyone knew the truth, he allowed the teacher to continue the lesson on the letters of the alphabet.

At that age, I ate dirt and that kid already knows how to read and do multiplication and division.

[Ohiogal]

1. At a parent-teacher conference

when our youngest son was in first grade, his teacher told us that one day the class was discussing what careers they would like to pursue ... when she called on my kid, he said he wanted to be a herpetologist. First grade ....

Well, now he’s 27 and he is a business systems consultant.

[Vadem]

4. When my granddaughter was in first grade, the teacher asked

the children what they wanted to be when they grew up and my granddaughter said she was going to be an Egyptologist! The teacher told her parents that she had to look up how to spell it before writing it on the blackboard! For her high school graduation present, we took a trip to Egypt, along with other family members. She is now a sophomore in college and is studying art and historic preservation and Arabic.

[3catwoman3]

2. Your grandson will keep that teacher on his/her toes.

Shades of my now 30 yr old #1 son. When he was about 7-8, he was dawdling around after breakfast, and bus time was drawing nigh. I said to him, “Hurry up, it’s quarter 8 and the bus is coming.”

He pointed out to me that is was 7:43, so I could not say it was quarter to 8 until it was 7:45!

It is possible to feel irritation and admiration at the same time.

[dflprincess]

3. I have a just turned 3 year old grandnephew who is using YouTube videos to teach himself Russian

He found these by himself and has rejected efforts by his mother to get him interested in Spanish (he'd have actual people he could speak Spanish with). He also enjoys Duolingo but has a little trouble navigating that himself.

On the upside, he gets very antsy when his Elmo sheets are in the wash so in some ways he's the kind of 3 year old I was (and his mother was for that matter).