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

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

My nephew does rule! :)

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.

Yeah, exactly, this. The Nephew's dad was labeled as behavioral problems and they wanted to put him in the 'special' class because they thought he was stupid. Turns out, he is freakishly very smart and he was just bored out of his head. No one at the school was paying enough attention and he ended up dropping out of school, which is such a waste.

After-school activities would be great for The Nephew - he could really use the extra socialization. But the school is all the way on the other side of town and my brother wouldn't have any way to go pick him up afterwards. What he needs to do is make friends with more of the parents of the other kids, so he could get someone to help him with rides and stuff. My brother doesn't do a lot of cool things like your mom did (everything you have ever said about your mom, she just sounds like the awesomest mom ever!) but he is very good when The Nephew asks him something that they go look it up on the internet together to find out the answer.

My mom talks to all kids like they are stupid. She doesn't talk to them like they are actual people, you know. It bugs me so much, because she works with kids. She worked in the school system for years and then/now as a child care worker and she treats kids (not just the way she talks to them but the things she expects of them) like they are babies. She freaked out the other day because my 12 year old cousin was climbing a tree. Kids do that! And he's 12, he'll be fine. But she freaked out.

And yet, somehow, all of us kids used to carry on conversations with adults like we were adult too. I don't know where we got that from if mom talks to kids like they are babies.

[denig37]

Hope you guys manage to find a way for the picking up thing...if not he can always start learning languages (I speak 5 total), it's best starting up as a kid (he's in the best age right now), because his brain learns it differently and it will be much more easier on him if he decides learn them when he grows up some (trust me, know this from experience). You could get him some of these self-learning kits and maybe try with him (there's a chance that after a while his own family won't have a clue what he's saying if you don't :-D).

everything you have ever said about your mom, she just sounds like the awesomest mom ever!
She really is :-D She won't shy away from anything (like how babies are made for example :-D She explained it from the biological side, how it works, got us a brochure with pics too...Screw birds and bees or storks! :-D)

Dude! Freaking out because a kid climbed a tree? We have a whole bunch of trees in our garden and we all climbed each and every one of them...repeatedly :-D
We have this big pear tree that's good for sitting in it laughing at the hens that run underneath it :-D

BTW I have this spoiled little cousin, he's a complete idiot, my mom and lil' sis were visiting mom's parents for a few weeks (they live in a little cottage in summer) and he was there.
He started banging his head against the desk he was sitting at when mom wouldn't do what he wanted her to. Mom was like "meh, not my kid, not my problem, not my head, I'm not your damn server, you want to bang your brains out, feel free" and she went for a walk with lil' sis. :-D

And yet, somehow, all of us kids used to carry on conversations with adults like we were adult too. I don't know where we got that from if mom talks to kids like they are babies.
Haha, maybe some other influences were involved too :-D

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

He already speaks quite a bit of Spanish (more than I ever did even when I was taking Spanish). One of those audio kits on languages would be a good idea! When I worked in child care, we had this 3 year old girl who could do the entire opening song of Beauty and The Beast even though half of it was in French. I was so amazed because sometimes I couldn't understand her English and yet here she was speaking French.

Dude! Freaking out because a kid climbed a tree?

Idek. My cousin's kid is 12 and they treat him like such a baby. They won't even let him walk home from school and he lives like 5 blocks from the school. I was already steadily babysitting other people's kids by the time I was 12 and they won't let him stay home alone. I don't know what his dad's position is on all this but both my aunt and my mom keep telling me how 'immature' the kid is. I am like, "Maybe if everyone would stop treating him like a baby, he'd stop acting like one."

And the funny thing is, we used to climb trees all the time and my mom never freaked out then. We used to do insanely dangerous stuff like tying a skateboard to the back of a bike and then someone would sit on the skateboard and the bike rider would pedal as fast as he could down the steep hill that lead into the trucking route road. We were allowed to do that but this kid isn't allowed to climb a tree?

"meh, not my kid, not my problem, not my head, I'm not your damn server, you want to bang your brains out, feel free" and she went for a walk with lil' sis. :-D

Good for her!!! My mom and my aunt are always trying to reprimand other people's kids and it pisses me off. I am a big fan of "not my kid, not my problem," when it comes to misbehaving children.

[denig37]

I am a big fan of "not my kid, not my problem," when it comes to misbehaving children.

Yeah, what if the kid has some "artsy" parents that are against any restrictions? Then your mom would and aunt would only get a "lecture" about letting the kid's spirit free *acts like a dork on weed*

Wheeeeeeee :-D

[denig37]

Hee, got a little bonus for you - lil' sis in a tree :-D (it was made a few weeks ago when she was cutting the branches)

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/Denig37/DSC00570.jpg

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http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/Denig37/DSC00572.jpg

:-D

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Wow, she is really up high in that tree!

/shakes head/ See, Mom, people climb trees!