We were at dinner the other night talking about something, I
actually forget the topic, and Luke was asking questions something about the
MAN that took care of something for us.
I said, “How do you know it was a man that would do that?” He looked alarmingly at me and said, “well a
women can’t do all the things because a women can’t be president” That’s when I launched into my feminist speech
to which Luke said, “well I know there are things that women can’t do that guys
can do.” He thought a minute and said, “I
know! Wrestle polar bears!!! Women can’t wrestle polar bears, right mommy!” To which I said, “You are right in that a
women would never wrestle a polar bear but not because they CAN’T but because
they are smart enough not to. Men on the
other hand….well, you’ve seen some of the things they wrestle on those animal
shows. Enough said” Luke said, “Oh yeah. Why did god make all the
girls smarter than the boys? Like all
the girls in my class are smart and get their spelling tests right and read
really REALLY good! The boys in my class
aren’t as good at that stuff. And for
Class Dojo*, the girls NEVER get negative points and the boys do.” “See Luke” I said, “now you are catching
on. Don’t count girls out, we are smart
cookies!”
*Class Dojo is a behavior type system that our teacher
uses. The kids get positive and negative
points throughout the day for good/bad behaviors and have a running weekly
percentage. It is pretty cool. So Jay
and I can follow along with how Luke is doing on the website or better yet we
downloaded the app to our phones and can click a couple times a day to see how
he is doing. Each night we can have a
talk about the positives and negatives.
Luke is not a huge fan of homework. It is much like pulling
teeth to get him to sit down and do his homework at night. The other night, while sitting down to do his
homework, Luke said, “Who invented homework because I really wish they didn’t do
that. I wish they would have invented
something different than homework, something cooler. I REALLY wish they thought of something else
to invent.”
