Tonight Big Brother and I were working in some workbooks that I got for him from Ebay. When he finished we put them into the folder that I picked up at walmart for his worksheets. The folder has a bumble bee on it, so he calls it his Bumble Bee folder. Anyway, before putting the papers away, I said “Can you write your name on the papers first?” Big Brother said “Sure.” So, we got a red marker and I asked him what letter would be first. He told me, “B.” I said, “Good. Can you write an B?” He wrote his B on his paper. Next, I asked, “What letter comes after the B?” He thought for a minute and said, “I.” I was on a roll! He is doing great, right??? So, he wrote the I and I asked him, “Okay, what comes next??” He looked at me, looked up in the air, looked at me again…it was obvious he didn’t remember. I then asked him, “What makes a guhh sound?” He looked at me again and then looked over my right shoulder. All of a sudden a bright lightbulb came on and he had a ear-to-ear grin on his face. The next thing I knew he ran past me and looked at the refridgerator on his paper from school. The teacher had neatly printed his name on the paper at the bottom. He ran back over and told me, “G!” I laughed as I called him a “cheater!” He, of course, doesn’t know what that means, but he deduced that it meant he was “silly.” I didn’t correct him for the moment, but that boy did it for the rest of the letters!!! Oh, my–definitely too smart for his own good!!! I have created a sneaky cheater!!! (No, my son’s name isn’t “Big Boy,” but I couldn’t really spell his name, right? What would be the point of calling him “Big Boy?”)
Too Smart for his Own Good!!
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