Real Good Thing!

Lisa at “Outnumbered” has a post about her son doing some “outside the box” thinking. This reminded me of something my middle child, Taylor, came up with. I’ve always been proud of my kids for being very abstract thinkers. Their pediatrician was always amazed at the way they were able to think of things that they shouldn’t at their age.

In 4th grade here in Virginia they are studying the Civil War and Taylor came up with his own little mnemonic for remembering whcih sides Grant and Lee fought for.  “Lee spelled backwards is eel, and eels live mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, so Lee fought for the South.”

 Do eels actually live mostly in the Southern Hemisphere? I don’t care, as long as he can rememeber the information he needs to.