Tempting the kids to read.
Aug. 14th, 2004 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI have discovered temptations needed to make the girls read. For Kouryou-chan, the temptation was perfect: the lyrics to this song. She spent all day reading the paper over and over and over. Y'know, she's eligible for state-sponsored kindergarten next year. She can already read for content. What the Hell would they do with a kid like her? But now I have to live with her singing it over and over.
For Yamaarashi-chan, the temptation was even better. Uninhabited Planet Survive is a Japanese anime targetted at the same age group that watches Yu-Gi-Oh and those silly things, but it's more mature and much less pointless. The basic story is a group of young kids, some middle school, some high school, are marooned on a distant planet and have to survive. The characters are predictable-- sort of-- and it's a fun show. The Japanese is right about where I am in my lessons, so it's excellent practice for me. And the subtitles are just fast enough that Yamaarashi-chan can read them and follow along, if she works at it. And she wants to. We've watched the first six episodes over the past week and had a good time doing so.
For Yamaarashi-chan, the temptation was even better. Uninhabited Planet Survive is a Japanese anime targetted at the same age group that watches Yu-Gi-Oh and those silly things, but it's more mature and much less pointless. The basic story is a group of young kids, some middle school, some high school, are marooned on a distant planet and have to survive. The characters are predictable-- sort of-- and it's a fun show. The Japanese is right about where I am in my lessons, so it's excellent practice for me. And the subtitles are just fast enough that Yamaarashi-chan can read them and follow along, if she works at it. And she wants to. We've watched the first six episodes over the past week and had a good time doing so.
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Date: 2004-08-15 12:56 pm (UTC)Greetings, troll...
Date: 2004-08-16 04:03 pm (UTC)Hmm...there's a few assumptions you've made here. First, you seem to have assumed that Elf doesn't want to send his older daughter to a private school. Actually, he would like to send Yamaarashi-chan to private school as well as Kouryou-chan if he could, and if he could afford to.
Your second assumption is that Elf has the right to decide what school Yamaarashi-chan goes to. He doesn't. According to the parenting plan, he and her mother have joint-decision making rights with regards to educational decisions. However, in practice what it usually comes down to is that her mother makes decisions, and Elf gets to say afterwards whether he's happy or not (usually without much affect.) Further, the school that Yamaarashi-chan currently goes to her mother decided upon, without Elf's input (there's much more on that, but I won't go into it.) Therefore, Elf *cannot* treat Yamaarashi-chan equal to Kouryou-chan. Yamaarashi-chan's mother is not Kouryou-chan's mother. Yamaarashi-chan's mother's opinion and ideas about what she wants her daughter to do (how much she is willing to pay for it) are vastly different from mine. And Elf's rights with respect to decisions regarding Yamaarashi-chan are different from his rights with respect to decisions regarding Kouryou-chan. Perhaps you should educate yourself a little further by reading a few books about the differences in raising children that live in two different households...like I have.
Elf's "grousing", as you put it, about Yamaarashi-chan's school has to do with his (and my) irritation about a particular religion being subtly taught to children under the guise of culture, because so many modern cultures don't understand that ancient cultures melded their religions as part of their cultures...you can't teach one without teaching the other. It bothered us that she would say that she could go to Bear and ask Him to take her troubles away and they would go away. All one would have to do would be to remove the bear skin she was standing in front of and replace it with a cross and the affect would be the same...but the response from people would be vastly different. And as for "frequent"...well, if you'd like to go back through his journal and show just how often you think "frequent" is, I'd be delighted to find out. I, however, have a life.
Are there any other accusatory comments you would like to say, Troll? Or perhaps you'd like to reveal who you are?