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Friday, May 22, 2009

I Blame Wikipedia

Last night, my ten year old daughter played in the first round of softball playoffs for her spring league (regular season champions, thankyouverymuch).

Even though she worked on homework from the time she got home from school until the time we left for the game, she still had a bundle of it left to finish after her shower. Because her teacher allows it and because it was almost 9:30 PM, while she completed her math, I worked on typing a report for her. I didn't change her writing, no matter how much it killed me not to.

I typed that paper word for word. Okay, okay...there was one exception.

Her report on slave turned activist, Sojourner Truth, had facts...I'll give her that, but I'm pretty sure she took a little liberty with the sentence, "I think Sojourner Truth had a great sense of humor".

Labels: Kids

# posted by Momo Fali : 6:14 AM

Comments:

Ya never know Sojourner may have been a frickin riot! ;)

# posted by

Kat : May 22, 2009 at 6:21 AM

well, she did have a funny name - that means good sense of humour, right?
*snicker*

# posted by

ender : May 22, 2009 at 6:23 AM

Forever the optimist. Got to love that.

# posted by

Ian Newbold : May 22, 2009 at 6:30 AM

That's logical. With a first name like Sojourner, you'd have to have a good sense of humor or you'd lie about our name.

# posted by

WeaselMomma : May 22, 2009 at 6:55 AM

Hey, at least she knows what's important in life!

And dang, I would love to have been able to type my daughter's stuff. When she was younger, it was very painful to watch her take an hour to hunt and peck a single paragraph. Thank God for school pc classes!

# posted by

Aunt Juicebox : May 22, 2009 at 7:02 AM

Now that's pretty funny. I picked up a book by Sojourner recently. There's a picture (drawing) of her on the front cover. She's not smiling!

# posted by

Ed : May 22, 2009 at 8:01 AM

i don't know... maybe that's a really insightful thing for her to say.

# posted by

Misty : May 22, 2009 at 8:22 AM

She must have meant Sanjay from American Idol.

# posted by

Kevin McKeever : May 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM

Our next great blogger in the making...

# posted by

Tracey : May 22, 2009 at 12:55 PM

Awesome blog, today was my first visit and I'm hooked.

# posted by

Lizgizzy : May 22, 2009 at 1:32 PM

And did you laugh when you read that?... It's a family gift there, you know.

# posted by

AlisonH : May 22, 2009 at 1:51 PM

If any of the sentences in her report used the words "FAIL" or "Tweeps", you'd have a very strong blame case.

# posted by

Tom : May 22, 2009 at 1:53 PM

yay. i don't clean up my kids papers either...when I'M typing them!! :)

# posted by

melissa : May 22, 2009 at 2:53 PM

That's neat that you can do that to help speed things up. Best of luck to her in the playoffs!

# posted by

Jaina : May 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM

I would have had to stop ten times to laugh if I did that for mine; fortunately, I don't ever have to because they type better than i do!

# posted by

Kori : May 22, 2009 at 3:05 PM

Are you sure she didn't put that in there just to make you laugh? ;)

# posted by

Angella : May 22, 2009 at 3:31 PM

Funny addition to the facts. Maybe she enjoyed knock-knock jokes.

# posted by

Otter Thomas : May 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM

Your daughter clearly has a great sense of humor! How cute!

# posted by

GiselleU : May 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM

That's too funny! As a teacher, every once in awhile I typed out a student's paper for him/her and I'd actually go back and undo the spellchecks that Word automatically did. As a teacher-turned-parent, I wish I had assigned less homework during my teaching years!

# posted by

Anonymous : May 23, 2009 at 9:04 AM

Sojourner Truth didn't have a great sense-of-humor? What are you telling me, girl? That some information on Wikipedia is incorrect? I'm going to go add that line to a variety of entries on Wikipedia. Just for fun. Biographies like Hitler's or Freud's or Stalin's.

# posted by

Alison @ Cluck and Tweet : May 23, 2009 at 9:28 AM

I always thought she was a real knee slapper too.

# posted by

Tara R. : May 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM

She's actually at the improve next week.

# posted by

James (SeattleDad) : May 23, 2009 at 7:39 PM

I've got an award waiting for you at my place! xoxo

# posted by

Melisa Wells : May 23, 2009 at 9:04 PM

You have The Best Kids...EVER!!

# posted by

meleah rebeccah : May 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM

the times she hosted Saturday Night Live was my favorite!

# posted by

Marinka : May 25, 2009 at 10:05 PM

lol

# posted by

DarkWing : June 4, 2009 at 12:45 AM

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