Taking another break as I’m somewhat downhearted. Was searching for resources to back up my (limited) understanding of bit manipulation, and on the site of the author of the book I’m using, javaranch, came across a campfire story purporting to explain it. And directly contradicting the book I’m using. I’ve emailed to request an explanation!
But it’s true that children will continue to educate themselves it appears – came down to Big reading a red nose reader this morning. We’ve had lots of conversations about politics, unsurprisingly, although I’m not sure how much of it will stick. They did some drawing with stencils this morning, got to be good for something? And Small likes to have his name written on his pictures now. Small has brought me several books to read – Spot, Big little Bus (which I quite like, which is good, as I get to read it a lot 😉 ) and then he goes away and sits with them and burbles them back to himself.
Big had a lesson on lacing shoes and tying bows – she keeps trying to do this, and keeps not quite getting it. Not sure if there’s anything for it but practise though. And then she asked if I would read the Usborne How Babies are made flip flap book, so we went through that at some length.
See, I am educating them. Honest. Now how do I teach Small not to do *that* in the bath????
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Call the stencils small motor skills and pre-writing practise…
Keep that nose grindstoning 😉
What’s with the problem with bit manipulation?
I just don’t get it.
Especially where negatives are concerned. Something to do with flipping all the bits and adding one?
So you get presented with some bizarre question asking you what would happen if you have 0x80000000 >>7 and I’m like ????
Even more confused now that the author has just written to tell me to read the sentence in context. I did!
sob.
You’re lookiung beyond the “convert to binary and shift the bits seven places to the right and convert back to hex” aren’t you?
You know about: http://www.holmfirthfestival.com/holmfirth_childrens_festival.asp ?
Just to fill up those long empty hours over the w/e… 😛
So how’s it going this evening? Can’t pretend to understand a word you’re on about but hope you do, by now 😉
Red nose readers, politics, stencils, books all sound good. Can’t help on *the other*, I really don’t know. For a long time when she was between one and two, about Small’s age now I suppose, I avoided taking Abbie swimming if I wasn’t completely sure that the BM had already happened for that day, because it just seemed that water served to relax *all* her muscles, so you have my sympathies. Bath is better than swimming pool, that’s all I can say. And both of those are better than a wicker rocking chair, but that’s another story 😉
ewww 😉
Don’t suppose there’s any chance he’d sit on the toilet to do it before the bath? Or take him out the bath to the loo before he goes? Doubt he’d be keen if he likes the bath. Ho hum, toddlers eh? Do you keep explaining about where he should be putting it, and everyone demonstrating where they put theirs? (i.e. not in the bath, it has a special place!!) Have to admit we missed this phase, except for when he was trying to blow bubbles in the water and made a mistake! on the +ve side, at least he’s not constipated, or doing it on a fluffy rug or worse!!!
Good luck with the studying, sounds like gobbledegook to me!
Been trying all those things – he has actually sat on the toilet and potty a couple of times now, but no sign of doing anything. I don’t know what to do with him, with him not talking at all it can be difficult to figure out how much he understands, but I’m pretty sure he knows this isn’t on. Last night after he’d done it he didn’t get to get back in the bath – I showered him off and then didn’t run them a fresh one, and he was well unimpressed with that. So maybe it has to be that sort of approach. 🙁