These last few days have been filled with a mixture of activities. I promote my husband's IT business by putting leaflets in doors, and my son has helped me recently. He gets a commission on any work my husband gets as a result. Matthew has learnt that the more effort he puts into leafleting, ie. the more leaflets we deliver, the more the chance of making money. He has had a couple of commissions as a result, which is positive - shows him there is a reward for effort - a big lesson for life.
I trade the stock market when I get the time, and Matthew was able to be there when some financial news about the Bank of England base rate came out, and the chart showed a massive move in price (+60 points) in less than two minutes! Fortunately I had bought five minutes earlier, so we were elated (thankfully it wasn't the other way!) Matthew was intrigued by this, and wrote about it in his Personal Journal.
I am gradually discovering holes in Matthew's maths skills, so we've been working on long multiplication and long division. He hates doing this, and would rather be outside, going out. I reinforce the message that a good base in maths and english is useful whatever you do in life. And personally, I hate seeing bad spelling - something that seems to abound this planet - grown people, who even write signs for pubs and shops and restaurants - unable to spell! Crikey, what's the world coming to? A sign of poor schooling?
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