What's the diff?!

Do you know any third grade girls?

Well, if they’re anything like my third grade girl, they are on any given day… sweet, sassy, spunky, weepy, irritable, reliable, and lately, a little bit sarcastic.

One day she is telling us that she had the BEST day ever at school! And the best part?

“I told off some boy.”

Um… what?! Granted, the boy had been bothering her, and we had told her that she needed to stand up for herself if she wanted to be left alone, but… (*sidenote: he hasn’t bothered her since ;)

So she is trying to find her own way. Her little personality is emerging, and she is not always the ‘easy kid’ now. She has her own ideas, her own way of doing things, and definitely her own way of looking at the world.

For example, she brought home a math paper where she’d gotten the following problem wrong:

“Kelly has 15 compact discs. Monroe has 19 compact discs. Who has more compact discs? What is the difference?”

She wrote that Monroe has more compact discs. Correct! And the difference? Well, the right answer, of course, is that the difference is 4.

I’m not sure if it was the wording (that she is accustomed to answering ‘how many more’ in math problems), or perhaps she was just in a mood… but her answer?

“The difference is that 19 is greater than 15. That is the difference.”

Um, like… DUH, totally! ;)