How My Nephew Is A Genius.

[dodger_sister]

The Nephew’s birthday is on Sunday. This means Sunday is Mother’s Day, The Nephew’s 6th birthday and my 2nd LJ anniversary. His party is Saturday. They are having it at a park so here’s crossing my fingers that is doesn’t rain and that it isn’t as cold as the last time. It is a robot theme party, so my sister made a giant robot costume out of a box. (yes, there will be pictures). The last time she turned a box into a robot he was 2 (maybe 3) and he was terrified of it. I hope he thinks it is awesome this time because I am worried he is too old for robot-boxes and my sister will be so disappointed if he doesn’t love it.


My brother was working on academics with him after school even though in kindergarten they don’t actually have homework. But then The Nephew’s teacher asked my brother to please stop because the kid is so advanced that he is actually having behavioral problems because he is getting bored in class. They do this letter system for reading and most of the kids in his class read at a Level C. The Nephew reads at Level H. The teacher tried him on a Level M and he only struggled with one word. The kid is a genius.

But now my brother is like, “He can’t play video games and toys all the time. If I can’t work on academics with him, what do I do?” My brother freely acknowledges that he is not an artistic person. Now that the weather is turning, he can engage in sports but they can’t sign him up for anything because they only have one car and no way to get him to sports when his mom is working. My sister and I offered to pay for guitar lessons but again with the non-ability to get him there. So I bought him some art books (a monster book, a robot book, an animal book and an Avatar: The Last Airbender book). They should be simple enough for my brother to be able to help him with. I also got him a baseball that has a speed radar in it that will tell you how fast you threw it (somebody in this family has to encourage the kid to like baseball!) My sister got him a ‘build your own robot’ kit. If he is anything like his dad was at that age, it will be a breeze for him to build a robot.

I also wrote him an Avengers story. He called me up about a month ago and said, “Hey, will you write me another X-men story?” and I said, “What, do you think you have a birthday coming up or something?” He goes, “Hey! I do have a birthday coming up!” Then I asked him if he wanted something different than X-Men this time. We got to talking about the new Avengers movie and he had just seen some cartoon (“It’s in the future so it has old Hulk and old Iron Man and Girl-Thor with a sword not a hammer”.) Then we were talking and I said, “You know what bothers me? Once The Hulk gets mad and becomes the Hulk and then they get all the bad guys - how do they get him to calm down again?” And The Nephew says, “Maybe they could tell him a knock-knock joke? He can’t be The Hulk if he is laughing.” Some of you may have read Darcy say this thing in my other Avengers fic - yes, I totally stole the idea for myself but it seemed like such a Darcy thing to say. Anyways, he decided on an Avengers fic so I had to use the idea again in this story. I also put The Nephew in the fic too. If you read it, you’ll see. Apparently the kids on the playground don’t believe him that Iron Man flies. What do they teach these kids?!

I’ll try to put the fic up on Monday. Also, Sunday is my LJ anniversary and I will be doing the Fictional Story Meme where you all leave me little stories about some crazy adventure the two of us got up to together (hence the fictional part of the meme). Now I am off to bed early so I can get up for the birthday party. Night all.

Comments

[vikingprincess]

Ha, he was totally watching Young Avengers! :D (why yes, my dork flag IS waving high!)

I think it's excellent that you guys are trying to give The Nephew things to do, but man, do I ever feel for his teacher, as well as him! It's kind of a nobody-wins situation, because I'm sure she'd rather be spending more time with fun stuff too - but with the many different levels of skill and acuity kids have at the very same age, it's hard to be all things to all kids.

Even in high school, the kids who get bored (as opposed to being lazy, which is a whole different type of frustration for the teacherly types like me) make me really sad, because with big classes they just don't get the fun attention and encouragement they need to get re-excited about stuffing their brains with cool things. (Even more so when the arts are taken away, grrrr argh.) Honestly, the ONE thing that would VASTLY improve US education is to make ALL classes no bigger than 15 kids per class grade 8 and below, and 20 in high school.

Can't wait to see the Avengers story, and I have an idea for our wacky adventure, too. :D

[denig37]

Nephew rules!
I had the same problem in school when I was little, sadly stupid teacher didn't recognize why I didn't pay attention (because I was bored obviously) and wrote it don into my school files.

Solution were afterschool activities (we have them in school and my school is about 15 minutes of walking from my home) and my mom (an awesome mom, who's a teacher and answered every question we had - and helped us looking for answers if she didn't know it :-D We went on long walks pretty often and took books about local fauna nad flora and learned what we have around us and what it is good for :-D).

Mom says that she never talked to us like to "stupid little kids" and when somebody met us and asked us a question they were like "WHOA!" when we actually answered like a normal person and not a kid :-D
She says that sometimes people looked at her weird when she could carry a conversation with us, but she was all "Why the hell would talk to them like they are stupid, when they aren't?" :-D
Awesome childhood was awesome!
Filled with playing in mud, running around in rain, doing stuff like painting eggs with melted wax (we melted cryons) :-D

[shirebound]

You have a terrific nephew, and he has a terrific Auntie. :)

[lizibabes.livejournal.com]

He sounds so cute and awesome, I'm glad he liked the bday story, I also love his plan to calm the Hulk down, when I was a kid I mainly asked why only his shirt ripped off, I knew why, I just loved making people try and explain it.

I need to see the Avengers, everyone says it's good and it is my kind of thing and I will probably still make jokes about why are they hiding the hulks green parts, because I'm a child.

It sounds really good all the different things your all geting him involved with, reading, art, sport, the teachers will have to just work harder to keep him interested in class, because from the sounds of it he'll just be getting smatter :D

Hmmmm time to think of a fictional meeting before sunday :D
Night.

[wolfrider89.livejournal.com]

The Nephew is melting my heart with his awesomeness. I hope he had a fantastic birthday and that he liked his presents. :)

It's though with school, because you'd think it would be a good thing that the kid learns so fast and that they would encourage that, but what is the teacher supposed to do when they have have all these other kids to take into account too? It's a weird system. I hope his dad and him can get him into art and stuff, that sounds like fun. :)