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Wednesday 8 November 2017

A comma is the difference between “What is this thing called love?” and “What is this thing called, love?”


My kids are amazing.  I am continually impressed with how well they do and what they achieve.  But there are times that they amaze me for the wrong reasons.  And this week was one of those times.

One of my children decided to have an argument with a teacher about what they should be learning, after some work that lacked punctuation. What my wife and I could not understand was why this was the case when this child is normally so good at the use of full stops.  But it was talking back to the person teaching them that also was jaw dropping.  This did result in some interesting conversations, but hopefully, we will be able to move on from this.  Fingers crossed...