Proud isn't the word
Let me give all the credit to my daughter for keeping me from falling apart on more than a few occaisions . She is the one person I can really count on.
News wih her is all good. She has been skipped 3 grades and will be going to highschool at age 12. Not just any highschool but one of her choosing, me and her mother have let her make that choice. We have gone and toured different ones and she made her decision a couple weeks ago, she will be going to Walnut hills. She based her decision on the fact that it is one of America's top public schools, and that it has a fine arts program. She will not only just be going to highschool but be in the accelerated program, and getting college credits. Since grade 1 she has maintained a 4.0 and has recieved so many awards it's hard to keep up. For instance she gets things like free tickets to reds games, bengals games, free pizzas from dominoes, gets to go on special field trips. It's hard to find anymore wall space for citizenship awards, attendance awards, high honors awards. It's crazy.
Beyond being uber intelligent she is one cool little girl. She had taken the advice I had given her when she was just starting school. Be who you are and do the things you like. Anyone can follow the pack, it takes guts to go your own way and people will respect you for it, and even may start following you.
She has shot way past me on playing guitar, she shows me stuff now. Hooks me up with new music she hears. And thank god she doesn't like Hannah Montana like her girlfriends. She's gone through a few music stages from Black Sabbath to Stevie Ray Vaughn, now is focused on more underground type stuff. She loves Kathleen Hannah, and Richard Hell right now.
Also, she has a great sense of responsibility. One thing I have made her do is work for her things. If she wants a new pedal for her guitar I give her a list of stuff to do to get it. Once she gets it it's hers, so I can't ground her from the playstation, she worked for it and it's hers to do what she wants. Not that I ever have to ground her. She was never one of those kids that throws fits in stores, if she wanted to see something we would go look at it together. If I couldn't afford it she understood and wouldn't say another word about it.
Lots of people worry about bringing a kid into this world, with all the violence and corruption that lays in wait to chop them off at the knees. I had a mission to bring a kid into the world that would make it a better place. I think I'm on the right track.
The thing I like about her the most is that she talks to me about everything. She is not afraid to ask me anything, and she has laid some doozies on me. Like "What is oral sex" :/ But she can count on me not to bullshit her. I also love when we hang out together, whether laying around eating cereal and watching cartoons, or going around taking pictures with our phones. We have alot of fun together. I just hope when she is a teenager she still runs up and hugs me by suprise.
News wih her is all good. She has been skipped 3 grades and will be going to highschool at age 12. Not just any highschool but one of her choosing, me and her mother have let her make that choice. We have gone and toured different ones and she made her decision a couple weeks ago, she will be going to Walnut hills. She based her decision on the fact that it is one of America's top public schools, and that it has a fine arts program. She will not only just be going to highschool but be in the accelerated program, and getting college credits. Since grade 1 she has maintained a 4.0 and has recieved so many awards it's hard to keep up. For instance she gets things like free tickets to reds games, bengals games, free pizzas from dominoes, gets to go on special field trips. It's hard to find anymore wall space for citizenship awards, attendance awards, high honors awards. It's crazy.
Beyond being uber intelligent she is one cool little girl. She had taken the advice I had given her when she was just starting school. Be who you are and do the things you like. Anyone can follow the pack, it takes guts to go your own way and people will respect you for it, and even may start following you.
She has shot way past me on playing guitar, she shows me stuff now. Hooks me up with new music she hears. And thank god she doesn't like Hannah Montana like her girlfriends. She's gone through a few music stages from Black Sabbath to Stevie Ray Vaughn, now is focused on more underground type stuff. She loves Kathleen Hannah, and Richard Hell right now.
Also, she has a great sense of responsibility. One thing I have made her do is work for her things. If she wants a new pedal for her guitar I give her a list of stuff to do to get it. Once she gets it it's hers, so I can't ground her from the playstation, she worked for it and it's hers to do what she wants. Not that I ever have to ground her. She was never one of those kids that throws fits in stores, if she wanted to see something we would go look at it together. If I couldn't afford it she understood and wouldn't say another word about it.
Lots of people worry about bringing a kid into this world, with all the violence and corruption that lays in wait to chop them off at the knees. I had a mission to bring a kid into the world that would make it a better place. I think I'm on the right track.
The thing I like about her the most is that she talks to me about everything. She is not afraid to ask me anything, and she has laid some doozies on me. Like "What is oral sex" :/ But she can count on me not to bullshit her. I also love when we hang out together, whether laying around eating cereal and watching cartoons, or going around taking pictures with our phones. We have alot of fun together. I just hope when she is a teenager she still runs up and hugs me by suprise.