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It's funny the way kids' ages telescope.

Two kids on my Friends List are starting kindergarten this fall, just like Alex. (Except that Alex started June 1, but never mind that.) One of these kids, I've always thought of as significantly older than Alex. The other, I've always thought of as significantly younger than Alex. My view of their relative ages was cemented in their infancy, when a few months' gap is huge. But now they are all kindergarteners, and more or less the same age.

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I've been feeling really quiet in LJ these days. There is work stuff going on that I can't really talk about, and it consumes a lot of my emotional energy. Not posting about that stuff winds up meaning not posting at all. You could try asking questions if you felt like it, or you could just, you know, enjoy the silence.

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Does Alex like postcards? I have encountered homeschoolers at Postcrossing, they seem to find the postcard exchange educational (I could send a map of Estonia postcard to your work address - if you would rather not use the home one for privacy reasons, if you would like to try out reaction).

Alex hasn't really encountered postcards, but would probably love one. That is such a kind offer! I will LJ-message you an address.

what will be the first foriegn language you will teach to your children? Why? At what age are you planning to start the lessons?

I think that Spanish is a requirement for a well-educated 21st-century American, so we'll be teaching Spanish. We should be doing it already, but haven't managed to squeeze it in. Michael and I are both as monolingual as an extremely monolingual thing, so it's not going to be easy for us to do this. We have access to video lessons, though, and we need to make it a priority.

We might introduce a classical language later on, like age 10 or so. I always regretted not taking Greek in college.