Tweening

[prof_fran]

I didn't really expect that B. would be starting to tween already as she's two months short of 9, and despite the fact that she is precocious in many academic ways, I would not have said she was socially ept, much less precocious. But she's starting to do things like being more private about her body (and it is very slowly, almost imperceptibly

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[irilyth]

I really enjoyed playing Magic with her back in April, and was astounded that she was old enough to understand the game as well as she did. :^)

In retrospect, is she now like anything you would've expected six years ago? Can you even imagine what M will be like when he's nine?

I keep finding myself thinking that the way J is now is the way she'll be all her life, but it's so not true...

[prof_fran]

She's an excellent games player, though she does get a little weepy still if she happens to be getting crushed. Which I totally get

[adfamiliares]

Wow, tween already. (Slightly older) tween was my least favorite age to be; good luck parenting B. through its hazards.

[jaipur]

Very cool. Sounds like a good kid! (only to be expected, of course ;)