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Many of you are familiar with some of my writing on early childhood education. Here, someone I’ve chatted with explains at some length her process for helping her children acquire absolute pitch. This is something possible for almost everyone during a narrow window of time; it and similar time-sensitive skills are worth serious consideration if you are a parent of a young child.
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Teaching your kids to read is helpful in today's world. Humblebragging about your trilingual kids who have perfect pitch is a bit much. How does it help them? Are they planning to be concert pianists when they grow up? I mean, it's nice to have, but it's more on the lines of "I can wiggle my ears" than "I am not illiterate in today's printed word society".
And yet it is curious how you consider it bragging while simultaneously claiming that you place very little value on the thing being bragged about. If the blog post was about a parent teaching their child to wiggle their ears, would you be commenting about how we don't need tiger moms forcing their children to become geniuses that accomplish great things such as being able to wiggle their ears?
One more thing...
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Bragging is when you say something positive about yourself. Humble bragging is when you say something negative about yourself, but at the same time reveal things that make it possible for other people to infer some positive thing about yourself. Do you think the blog post we are discussing really is humble bragging, or is it just bragging?
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