Mom: "Do you want to go to a school where it is easy for you to be the best or a school where there are some classmates competing with you?"
Son: "The latter."
Mom: "Why?"
Son: "Because I like competition. "
Mom: "Even if you might lose the competition?＂
Son: "Yes. "
Mom: "It's good you think this way. "
Looks like my boy has made it easy for me to make the decision about which school he will go.
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Everyday I have lots of fun putting my son to bed. Yesterday is one of those.
Me: "Don't move! Let me put the ointment on. " (He has cracks at mouth corner that is healing.)
He stopped shaking his face and I did my job: "Okay, good. You are still. Very cooperated."
Son: "Mom, I am moving. When I breathe, I move. Logic! Don't think after you say..." (We are reading Logicomix these days. :)
LOL.
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Son: "No! That's an apartment."
Me: "What's wrong with apartment?"
Son: "It's small and noisy." (他们social study课比较apartment 和 house 的区别，他就记住这么个结论。 这都教的什么啊？）
Me: "There are upscale apartments. They are big...and expensive too."
Son: "Bigger than our house?"
Me: "No...but more expensive per square feet."
Son" "Then don't waste your money!"
Me:
有一阵子儿子喜欢问各个公司是不是for profit.
Son： “Mom，is your company for profit? "
Me: "Yes..."
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Son: "Is Disney for profit? "
Me: "Yes..."
Son: "But money isn't the ultimate goal, right?" (幼小的心灵受到很大打击。。。）
Me: "Yeah...but having money can help many people too. Pursuing profit makes a company run more efficiently." (也不知道应不应该这么说。：）
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看了网友的求三角形最小角的最大值一帖 http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/znjy/2536394.html， 前一阵有一天从夏令营接儿子回来，我忽然想起这个问题。
我： “你学过三角形吗？”
儿子：“学过。”
我：“你知道三角形的内角之和是多少吗？”
儿子：“必须是180 度。”
我： “好。那我问你一个问题，任何三角形里你可以找到一个最小的角，对吧？ 这个角的最大值是多少呢？”
儿子： ”49。"
我：“为什么是49？ 50不行吗？”
“因为。。。”，他没说下去，大概发现自己不对，儿子砰地打开收音机，歪一边假装睡觉去了。（我开的是两座的车。）他就这样，对做数学没什么兴趣，我也不想再追问他，就不说了。
回到家，他在楼下玩了一阵，照例上来要我输入iPad密码。我一看机会来了，不知怎么的，儿子的脑子只有在非动不可的时候才会转，所以：
我：“你把刚才三角形的那题做出来，再玩。”
儿子在一边想了两分钟，说： “是60。”
我有点惊讶，问： ”Wow，你是怎么算出来的？“
儿子： ”我先用50试，每次加10。50的时候，剩下的两角平分是65。60的时候，剩下是60。70的时候，剩下55。（不是最小角了）所以只能在50和70之间。多出的角度分一下。。。所以是60.“
他后面的解释我没太听懂，我觉得他对这部分的推理也不太能表述清楚。但当时我怕他嫌烦，打击他的兴趣，所以没有继续问。首先我没明白为什么剩下的两角要做等角，如果等角是对的话，为什么不直接三分角？ 这么推算是瞎猫碰上死耗子，还是有一定道理？
儿子9月上四年级。
