Posted on 07/21/2010 9:39:17 AM PDT by Daveinyork
They were specifically written for juveniles (to 1950’s standards).
I’d say yes...
guess i should have pinged you.
I didnt mean to suggest that I was talking about individual cases. I’m talking about females as a group ... ie the male mean vs the female mean, or the ratio of males to females at the top of the curve. It doesnt mean that there are no females at the top of the curve, nor that there are not plenty of females that are better than some of the males. It merely means that statistically, the male mean exceeds the female mean and that at the top of the range there are more males than females.
I hit post before remembering to include that females have better computational ability than males.
Heinlein was writing for a juvenile audience in the 1950s, and those books are exactly what you'd expect from titles like Space Cadet or Rocket Ship Galileo.
Of course I wouldn't introduce your son to Stranger in a Strange Land or Time Enough for Love right away.
It does surprise me. Did you have any brothers?
Teach the boys using comprehensive(true) phonics, rather than “look and guess” sight reading, the differences in scores between boys and girls would shrink significantly. It might even disappear.
IMO.
Nope. Texas native, and a natural blond (now grey) to boot.
Of course, now I’m a stay at home mom.
I dunno...I expect if you get the kid started on the YA novels, once they plow through those and start looking for more....
I stumbled onto one of my favorite authors that way. She wrote one trilogy set in her primary world for children, and by 8-9 I was reading the adult ones too. Some of it went THOROUGHLY over my head for quite a few years beyond, of course...
That’s right twenty years ago when boys were reading better, there were plenty of coarse books to read at school..not.
I actually agree with this. Or at least use a multi-sensory reading program like those used for kids with dyslexia.
I think lots of boys are better taught with multi-sensory techniques.
Actually, I think kids should be tested when they are in kindergarten or first grade to see what style learning suits them best, and then they should be placed in a class that meets that style.
If a child is a kinesthetic learner, then they should be in a class that is very hands on.
If a child is a visual learner, then they should be in a class that has lots of visual stimulation.
This one size fits all approach does not work.
I pinged you because you're the language maven around here, as well as the mother of many boys!
Yes, I did grow up with brothers; and my father had plenty of brothers as well, so a variety of audio/olfactory entertainments around the old dinner table were commonplace in the family of origin (unless we had company).
My nuclear family has carried on this grand tradition. We prefer cane chairs in the dining room for everyone's comfort and pleasure; and like most other stuffy grad-ed Celto-WASPs, we titter most nerdfully after quoting Benjamin Franklin on the subject ("Better to fart and bear the shame/ than spare the fart and bear the pain") as well as George Hamilton on SNL ("Darling, are you playing the bassoon?"). And we rarely tire of tuning up the instrument, then accusing someone else.
I can also boast of having known the grandson of the indomitable Le Pétomane, the Moulin Rouge performance flatulist. The grandson did not find his relative's career nearly so illustrious as I.
We do spare our guests this private family vice. And we have a ceiling fan and large French doors. Sadly for me, my days as a serious competitor are over since I stopped drinking Diet Coke; and the wind went completely out of my sails when I had my gallbladder removed.
I did instruct my male child not to indulge the first time he meets a girl's family, however; and maybe not the second time, either. Unless they have a dog to blame it on.
Oh, my. If you ever come to visit, we’ll cook out and eat in the pergola.
I have a bad case of lower-middle-class (but with pretensions!) stuffiness when it comes to bodily-funtion humor. There’s an interesting social essay there, having to do with the spread of indoor plumbing among the hoi-polloi, but I have to find more coffee to make my eyes focus.
You were an unusual teenager! Thank you very much for posting these. I have copied them and will look them up. Please feel free to write me any time about books you enjoy reading!
Laughing until crying!
Sorry for the gross-out; hope you got that it was intentionally satirical, as well as the several references to "not in front of company", etc. ROFLOL!
Yes, I knew you were being dramatic. It was funny, too ... in a way ;-).
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