Friday, August 27, 2010

Lessons are lurking in the least likely places

This week Maddy was at speech and in addition to the actual speech therapy part of the session time they often work on critical thinking skills and other applicable social things.

This week is was a great work sheet on problem solving consequences. To make it a little more challenging the therapist required Maddy to give two examples of what could happen in certain events.

One of the questions was about leaving your wallet on the counter at the grocery store. Maddy immediately launched into how someone could get the wallet, steal your identity and use your credit cards.

The speech therapist was very impressed with the depth and quickness of the answer. When she is telling me I thought about my Mother and all she had to deal with when her identity was stolen. I just assumed that Maddy must have overheard Mom and during this time.

When the speech therapist asked how Maddy knew about identity theft, Maddy just smiled really big and said "I learned it on Spongebob".

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