..
confusion over negative
(attitude)
/positive
(yup, you have math homework)
fraction
(of a chance we might make it through the next half hour of life.)
hubby quietly explains
the concept.
boy nods; adds:
“okay. and now i just need a piece of paper. and a panic room.”
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Whimsygizmo's Blog 
Oh man, I need a panic room too. Only, I think my panic room will have to be all of the outside. Let’s just keep all the other people in their houses so that I can hop around and act crazy without anyone watchin’ … ‘cept out their windows, I guess. 🙂
Favorite Book: A Wrinkle in Time
LOVED that book.
I love that comment about not making it through the next half-hour of time. I can SO relate to that feeling – esp. when math homework is in question. Ugh!
I have been there and done ‘that’ at both ‘ends’.
‘Maths’ and I do better now – but we’ll never be ‘besties’.
We had a ‘boy’ who thought he’d go into meteorology – but the maths …he took after me, and changed his focus. All those complex formula. I can just about remember my own telephone number…