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8/6/12 at 3:53am

Geoffrey Firmin

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Monday Night Football;Wests Tigers 51 V Eels 26:slayer:

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8/6/12 at 4:01am

Sir Humphrey Appleby

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Get to train somebody up to do my job on weekends and take on some new responsibilities today. Think I'm now seen as important, just got to become essential.

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8/6/12 at 4:29am

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You sound like my wife with the baby talk.

Yeah, one of the things I mentioned to his teacher was that I feel it's important that there's a balance, especially when he's still in preschool. I do want him to be challenged, but I still want him to be able to be a toddler. I'll be curious to see what things are like when he starts actual school. I found out at some point that they thought I had a learning disability when I was in early elementary school. It turned out it was the opposite - I was just really bored, so they got me set up in the gifted program. I hadn't heard that story until recently, but I'm glad I did. If it comes up with him, at least I have a heads up.
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Sounds like you have a good handle on these things. There are quite a few studies nowdays that show that skipping a grade or going in early is detrimental from a social aspect. Once you hit puberty being the youngest, weakest, least socially and physically developed in a year-group often has a more damaging impact than any benefit of being "stretched". Given the choice, I would not have skipped up a year; being both a runt and a nerd? Much harder than being a nerdy jock!

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8/6/12 at 4:52am

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Sounds like you have a good handle on these things. There are quite a few studies nowdays that show that skipping a grade or going in early is detrimental from a social aspect. Once you hit puberty being the youngest, weakest, least socially and physically developed in a year-group often has a more damaging impact than any benefit of being "stretched". Given the choice, I would not have skipped up a year; being both a runt and a nerd? Much harder than being a nerdy jock!

And being a year behind means you're the oldest and had more time to develop (starting school at 4 means another 25% of life) and so probably cleverer and physically stronger. 30% of Premier League footballers were born in September or October.

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8/6/12 at 6:36am

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For those who were asking last week what Wolfe wore when I met him, funny thing, I was looking something up and I found this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv9DoPQgmBM

That's EXACTLY what he wore when I met him: same suit, same shirt, same tie, same square.

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8/6/12 at 7:09am

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For those who were asking last week what Wolfe wore when I met him, funny thing, I was looking something up and I found this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv9DoPQgmBM
That's EXACTLY what he wore when I met him: same suit, same shirt, same tie, same square.

very cool. thanks.

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8/6/12 at 7:16am

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For those who were asking last week what Wolfe wore when I met him, funny thing, I was looking something up and I found this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv9DoPQgmBM
That's EXACTLY what he wore when I met him: same suit, same shirt, same tie, same square.

Awesome. Glad you got to interview him, and I hope we get to read your essay.

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passed my first exam. 1 down, 3 to go. Plenty of things to get bent out of shape over (In fact, FU Robinair) but so what? Three exams to go.

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8/6/12 at 7:23am

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Originally Posted by Blackhood

Sounds like you have a good handle on these things. There are quite a few studies nowdays that show that skipping a grade or going in early is detrimental from a social aspect. Once you hit puberty being the youngest, weakest, least socially and physically developed in a year-group often has a more damaging impact than any benefit of being "stretched". Given the choice, I would not have skipped up a year; being both a runt and a nerd? Much harder than being a nerdy jock!

One thing that you have to keep in mind and work at - it's just as important, if not more so to work in a smart kids social skills. My son has a friend, they met 3 years ago playing soccer, this kid is really bright but he basically has no friends aside from my son, even though he is in a different school and he only seems my son a few times a year. The other day was this kids birthday and the only kid he wanted at his "party" was my son.we have taken him on a few outings and he can't stop talking about isomeric stuf and math and so on, he doesn't know how to talk like a kid.

My son is pretty bright, and we have shifted our whole focus to his social skill, and it really paid off. If he's intellectual it will show up, there are plenty of opportunities, but a smart person who can talk to people is relatively rare an valuable

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8/6/12 at 7:37am

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passed my first exam. 1 down, 3 to go. Plenty of things to get bent out of shape over (In fact, FU Robinair) but so what? Three exams to go.

DUDE! that is fantastic news. best of luck on the next 3. was the exam as difficult as people say?

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8/6/12 at 8:12am

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(...) was the exam as difficult as people say?

Well, I passed, so that right there tells you it's not rocket science.

Serious answer, though, is that I went at material I hadn't seen in depth since around 2003, 2004, so there was a bit of re-learning going on. That said, I stumbled out of the exam thinking it was a coin flip between pass/not and when I got my score (89) I nearly jumped out of my chair. So either I had some really good guesses / POE, knew more than I thought, missed mostly the 'experimental/unfair' questions, or killed the written part.

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8/6/12 at 9:25am