Lights on at night..off during day..is this okay?

[RTR]

And even with plants, so long as the lighted period is sufficient, the location of the day/night cycle in relation to that of the outside world is trivial. There is an adjustment period for plants and fish, but it is short and once on a regular schedule as timers provide, everything is normal operation.

 

[Roan Art]

give him a copy of "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carol (sp), and if he reads it before christmas... a chess board. be prepared to get whipped unless you know/wanna learn.

Well, the one thing my husband and I vowed is to not push him. We let him go at his own pace and learn what he wants, when he wants. He's not quite ready for Alice in Wonderland I've got several books on teaching a kid like him and I shelved 'em all. Connor seems to learn faster and easier if he does it himself.

Chess, yah, I can play but I'm not very keen on it. It would take him a while to learn how to beat me.

but theres a real respect that grows in boys when you (a mother, right?) say, 'you can beat me, but how?' makes a nice rebuttale (sp) for 'because i said so'.

That's an interesting idea, but fostering competition isn't something that's good for one of our gene pool. I come from a highly (too much so) competitive family and so does my husband. Thus far he hasn't displayed too much in that respect, but we'll have to wait and see.

... street smarts are tough on the smart ones.

There's the difference between clever and intelligent Luckily Connor has a mother who is very clever and a dad who is very intelligent. Hopefully he'll learn from us both Or, as we put it: "nothing worse than a bright kid who is out to lunch on life".

just an idea, i was 19 when i read that book for the first time, and i was p1ssed...why did i have to discover it on my own?

That was the same age that I discovered The Hobbit. I was pretty PO'd about that, too

especially with an affinity for spacial coordinates that comes with early math skills.

My daughter has awesome spacial coordination. She could do a 40 piece puzzle at the age of 2. Unfortunately she's like me, too much cleverness. She has a hard time applying the smart side and gets frustrated very easily. Shake the frustration out of her and she's absolutely BRILLIANT. I had the same problem, so I can sympathize, but I have no clue how to fix it except for her to grow out of it like I did.

Heh, not saying I'm brilliant or anything, I'm not. Definitely not! I'm clever and that's all. I just don't get as frustrated with things as I used to and can therefore apply myself much better now.

Bah, kid talk, let's talk fish

Roan

 

[kyperman]

Buy a timer

Buy a cheap timer and allow ther lights to go off after a few hours so she will be asleep...

 

[Roan Art]

Buy a cheap timer and allow ther lights to go off after a few hours so she will be asleep...

And if she wakes up in the middle of the night, like kids always do, she'll freak out

Roan

 

[kyperman]

Well..

Well if you are gonna be that way !!!!