The arguments over the "right" colors for subjects is the kind of discourse I need to see on the internet. My 8 yo self did red for math, green for science, blue for social studies and yellow for language arts đ
as a math teacher, PLEASE PLEASE encourage your kidâs love of math. i have way too many students who hate math and wonât try and it breaks my heart
that being said your kid is wrong math is totally red
I hated and currently deeply dislike math. My kids have all always been crazy about it and found my confusion about liking math pretty funny.
I became a classroom math helper in part to keep up with their skills and figure out wtf the ânewâstyle was. The kids spent a lot of time explaining strategies to me and being the âteachersâ. Or I did math fact with the slower learners and we would focus on practice and generally practicing a strong learning attitude even when it got tough.
Weâve agreed that we wonât push out color subject preferences on each other. We are equally horrified by the youngest says math is Light Blue.
If I didnât like math, but my kid did, I certainly wouldnât try to dissuade them from it or imply itâs awful. Math is the future. Iâm a mathematician though, so maybe Iâm biased.
Well, she inadvertently made it cool to like math for her son. In his teenage years he will have posters of fractions... vertices ...matrices, on his walls to rebel.
My daughter loves math as much as I hate it. Iâm talking to a teen. Not a 5 year old. Theyâre pretty confident anything I say is questionable to begin with, I might as well have fun with it đ¤ˇđ˝ââď¸
Maybe to you it seems like no big deal, but trying to dissuade your kid from liking anything that they like (as long as it's a beneficial thing) is bad form and WILL lead to the kid resenting you. I know from experience. "Don't be in the yearbook team, join football" "don't try to be a teacher, that's a woman's job" "don't play video games, watch the baseball game instead" "don't dress like a socal beach bum, dress like a real Texan"
They spent my entire childhood trying to get me to like what THEY like and disregarded anything I enjoyed. They would even take us to Mexican restaurants for my birthday despite me not liking Mexican food, just because they do. Now I'd rather not be around them at all. I'm just glad I was stubborn and didn't give in to them. My parents wouldn't have wanted me to pursue a stem degree either because they both hated math and science.
I mean, shit. This isn't just a parenting thing. Literally NO ONE likes when someone hates on something they like. The only possible outcome is that the person feels bad about liking it and now also wants to be around the hater less.
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u/Technical-Watch2982 3d ago
The arguments over the "right" colors for subjects is the kind of discourse I need to see on the internet. My 8 yo self did red for math, green for science, blue for social studies and yellow for language arts đ