Alternative title: I Bet No One Encourages Me To Homeschool After This
Me: Okay, Payton, it’s time to practice your multiplication tables.
Payton: groan
Me: What was that? You said it’s your life’s deepest wish to scoop the litter box and clean your brother’s room before we practice multiplication? Fine by me!
Payton: Hey, I didn’t say that!
Me: Oh, ok. Then we can start. 6×6 is?
Payton: 36!
Me: 7×6 is?
Payton: 42!
Me: 7×3 is?
Payton: Um. Um. Um. I can’t remember that one.
Me: Huh. Well, let’s see how we can make it easier to remember. How about this: 7 times 3, drinks on me!
Payton: What does that mean, “drinks on me”?
Me: You say “drinks on me” when you are buying everyone a round of drinks at a bar. And we know you have to be 21 to buy alcohol. So 7×3, drinks on me = 21!
He hasn’t missed that particular multiplication problem since.
No DNA test is needed to verify that is my boy.
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I would love to hear what some of your other learning devices are.
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Wow, that way beats “I ate and ate and got sick on the floor” – 8 x 8 = 64
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Nice one Heather, lol.
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Drinks on you, you say? I’m on my way!
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And That? Right there? Is PRECISELY why you’d kick butt as a homeschooler.
I WILL never forget that 7×3, drinks on me…is 21! And I’ll be teaching it to my kids this morning and pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze tell me there’s more where that came from. Do you have one for smoking pot?
I think you could work in an old folks home, too, keepin’ them sharp with these little math songs…I can hear them all chanting in unison now “7×3, drinks on me…”
P.S. Take a deep breath, start getting ready to read Payton’s school on caller ID b/c the next time your phone rings this morning, you know it’ll be b/c Payton’s been singing that little diddy at school already.
Your so smart. I would have never thought of that great analogy.
I agree with Alexandra, kids love to repeat things. I bet that phone call will be one to remember.
you are an educational genuis
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My son told me that his teacher told him: I ate and I ate until I was sick on the floor.
So now he knows that 8×8=64. Whew that we saved on that flashcard, right?
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Wonder what his teacher said when he repeated that one.
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Damn, doesn’t work here. Legal drinking age is 18.
Boo is all about toilet humour so I am thinking 7×3 need to pee.
That is AWESOME!!! I taught my son how to count and recognize numbers when he was in preschool on a poker machine that my bff got for Christmas!!! Great minds think alike!!
3 x 4 = Chris Hansen at your door
10 x 4 = start acting like a whore
20 x 5 = heirs disappointed you’re alive
Not only should I not homeschool, I probably shouldn’t leave the house.