Morning? What's that?

[azurelunatic]

As certain someones were very much asleep this morning, as anticipated, I woke up the Little Fayoumis and got him shuttled schoolward. "Is it morning already?" he complained, or asked in a very complainy sort of way.

He got dressed, and there was only one pants crisis, but he got clothed. Then he wanted me to sign his reading folder. I stressed that it was crucial for me to have actually seen him do the reading, rather than him telling me that he'd done it, and he and I settled down on the couch with a book ... not, on examination, his reading folder book... there were a few hangups, mostly having to do with him guessing at difficult words without at least attempting to sound them out. (He hasn't figured out the trick where you sound out each letter individually, then look at the grown-up, who will, pleased with your effort, give you the correct pronounciation, and has to be prodded into that.)

Half a page, and it was time to leave. We read a few simple words from signs (rugs, the car, car pool, you) on the way.

Now at DeVry. Zonked. Got to chat with cRon, though. Bragged about Mr. Note-writer. Class isn't until 9; what am I doing, again? Oh, yeah, napping. And calling Darkside later in the afternoon.

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[mnfiddledragon.livejournal.com]

heh - we had to have that conversation with Kritter - she has an assignment book that has to be signed every day - she wanted us to sign it *before* she'd finish her homework, worried that it wouldn't get signed. I explained to her very calmly that her book was *not* getting signed until after all of her homework was done, and one of us had reviewed it (usually 'Sea or me)

[azurelunatic]

Hee.

The conversation went something like this:

"Did I see you read the book?"
"But I read it last night!"
"Did I see you read the book last night?"
"..."
"Did marxdarx see you read the book last night?"
"...No..."
"So, can I sign it if I didn't see you read it?"
"... ...No."

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Would engineering-type stories go over well at this point? Stuff about how the reputation of a professional engineer is on the line when they sign off on engineering stuff and they're also in charge of the engineering stuff working and not killing people, so they're really careful about only signing off on stuff they're sure on. I don't know if it would help illustrate the concept of signing off or if it'd be too hyperbolic (because, after all, no bridges will fall down if LF doesn't do a night's reading).

(Bonus extra story included because I love telling this story and because it's vaguely related; feel free to skip): the professor of my required engineering class at college liked to tell the story of how he, as a lowly junior-sub-baby-engineer-in-training challenged the design of a bridge that he was supposed to be doing some minor engineering task for. He brought it back to the Grand High Mighty Senior Engineer who'd designed it and said that there was something wrong with the bridge. The GHMSE drew himself up and harrumphed about the complete lowliness of Prof. (to be) Cha's position compared to that of a GHMSE. Cha pointed out that each supporting post of the bridge was a mile wide, and therefore *something* was wrong.

[azurelunatic]

I think cops go over better than engineers at this point. But the idea's still applicable to cops.