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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41658)	11/13/1999 11:49:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Isn't it amazing to watch a bright child learning to deal with these concepts?! No matter how difficult things may grow at times, you are very lucky, LRR.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41658)	11/13/1999 12:33:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

LLR, Ah- the old eight-pointed fluted star!! I know what toy you're talking about, though I was never clever enough to name the shapes. (Here- this weird one. This pointy one, this sorta square one) Helen sounds so much like CW. AMmo hated anything like that- hated puzzles, or sitting. He was our climber, runner, mover. But CW would sit and work on jigsaw puzzles for long periods. Have you gotten her some of those wooden puzzles? We had a beautiful one with numbers on one side and graphic depictions like three birds on the other side. There are also -I think we got these between two and three years- a set of wooden block shapes that make designs that CW loved. A developmental teacher told us this ability correlated with IQ testing ability. For what THAT was worth. I LOVED the educational toy stores- and teachers' stores. A good physical game for a rainy day is to make the shapes out of construction paper and place them on the floor like stepping stones and call out "Red triangle!" and "Purple oval!" and she can jump from one to the other. Hearing about Helen makes me want to be there again...tell us more.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41658)	11/13/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

The boys had a toy sort of like that, but it was a polygon with one shape per face. We still have it, that's a cool toy that I want the grandchildren to have. Watching the looks of concentration, frustration, and triumph pass over their little faces was very pleasurable. Ben has regressed a little under the pressures of high school, he has started playing with Legos again. I took the boys to Toys'R'Us for the first time in a while, and bought them both new Lego kits, by request. Ben, who is really into dragons, got one with a black dragon, and I bought an expensive ($50!) set that made an X-Wing and a Tie Fighter, so they could each make a spaceship and fight with each other. Ben has been playing quietly by himself and making battle sound effects, which he hasn't done in years. His classes are really tough, and then moving into the new house, and unpacking, and everything have just been a lot on everyone. Chris and I spent spare minute on the landscaping, stuff like that, instead of making sure he was doing ok in his math. Even though it gets easier in some ways as they get older, it gets harder in others, they need less physicially done for them, and they need higher level learning, and structure. The best part is, we all progress together.