Proud Mommy moment from the weird mom: Sharing my nerdy passions with my 8yr old daughter is something I live for. However, just coz I like to share doesn't mean I like giving her answers or making things easy on her. (Just a warning. I'm that mom who lets her kid struggle, fall, and fail. Never said I was a good mom. You know we just make up the rules as we go along, right?)
Much like me, she loves fish. So she has her own little 10gallon tank to take care of. She chose the fish, the plants, the inverts, everything that goes in, and how its all managed... I do not interfere with tips like "uhh....maybe you should quarentine that..." Not because I don't care but because I want her to learn things for herself. So when she came to me and complained that her fish were starting to have sores and "little tags" hanging off of them, I handed her a test kit, my microscope, and a notebook. Told her to write down everything she finds and then google it.
I already know what the problem is. She didnt disinfect/quarentine some new plants and she introduced parasitic leeches to the tank.
She came back 4hrs later with 8 pages of notes and cried "those tags are worms and their sucking the blood out of my fish!"
Don't get me wrong. I'll help her with the problem... I just want her to find and work for answers for herself. Its easy to forget a lesson some one just tells you. It sticks when you toil for it. I'm proud of my kiddo.
Her: ..."so how do we get rid of them?"
Me: "We nuke it from space, baby."
....and the adventure goes on.
Much like me, she loves fish. So she has her own little 10gallon tank to take care of. She chose the fish, the plants, the inverts, everything that goes in, and how its all managed... I do not interfere with tips like "uhh....maybe you should quarentine that..." Not because I don't care but because I want her to learn things for herself. So when she came to me and complained that her fish were starting to have sores and "little tags" hanging off of them, I handed her a test kit, my microscope, and a notebook. Told her to write down everything she finds and then google it.
I already know what the problem is. She didnt disinfect/quarentine some new plants and she introduced parasitic leeches to the tank.
She came back 4hrs later with 8 pages of notes and cried "those tags are worms and their sucking the blood out of my fish!"
Don't get me wrong. I'll help her with the problem... I just want her to find and work for answers for herself. Its easy to forget a lesson some one just tells you. It sticks when you toil for it. I'm proud of my kiddo.
Her: ..."so how do we get rid of them?"
Me: "We nuke it from space, baby."
....and the adventure goes on.
