Interestingly, both Danial and Sara were both charting family trees as part of their school projects. Yes, Sara is in her first year of kindergarten and already she has "school projects". When I was in kindergarten, my only concern was getting my fair share of hot Milo and those pound cakes at break time.
So, a relatively easy school work became a bit more complex because my kids have three grandmothers. There's my mum, and then there's the husband's mum and his step-mum. And yes, that means I have *two* mothers-in-law which would make for interesting blog topics, if not for self-restraint on my part.
Back to the project. As we started drawing the family tree, I had to explain why they had an extra grandmother - divorce is not an easy concept to explain.
In the end, I thought we should tackle the family tree by being biologically correct. And that means, their step-grandmother and Farah should not be included in the family tree. My reasoning is that a family tree should chart only biological lineage.
But my kids had other thoughts. Danial said he didn't want to exclude Farah (they are cousins) from the family tree. He told me if he were Farah, he would feel sad if he were left out of the family tree just because "she didn't come out from your stomach".
And Sara said the step-grandmother needed to be in the family tree because she is also part of the family and didn't want to hurt her feelings, too.
I took their points. I'm a realist and my kids are sentimentalists. I'm glad they are the way they are, even though their family tree had an extra box or two.
4 comments:
Atleast they both had the same assignment. Its easier to work on both at once than to do them weeks apart.
And of course, then they can outvote you! :)
Heh, I was thinking the same thing about killing two assignments in one go! And yes, they did out-vote me!!
hi. was just bloghopping.
your kid got a school project already? that's a mighty leap of education's progress compared to my time(where i distinctively remembered calling it 'sekolah makan'! for obvious reasons).. i wonder how it'll be for my baby son. and i think kids nowadays are so so much smarter than before.. :)
Hi and welcome :) My youngest is in K1 and she does have these type of projects. And I so hear you, I never had anything so complex from school, especially at that age!
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