Fun with Studying

Let's pretend that you have a daughter who is obsessed with getting good grades, and to whom getting an A- feels like failure.  Now let's pretend that this daughter receives an assignment from a teacher to do the following:

"Go home and take a bunch of sticky notes and write out facts about Mesopotamia on them, and post them in areas all around the house so that wherever you go you are reading key facts about this ancient empire."

Now let's imagine that you're a dad, and you get bored, and you're sitting here looking at sticky  notes posted all over your house (even on the milk and on the toilet!) and so you decide to do the only real logical thing:  you append a bunch of little-known facts to the bottom of the cards.

You know, things like "Ancient Mesopotamains were invaded by the Hittites, the Assyrians, and Gloria Gaynor."  Or "Common medicines were roots, herbs, and Disco Globes."

And of course Emproer Sartan founded the BeeGees.

Here's what happens: your daughter gets mad at you and says that if she gets a bad grade it's your fault.  And you get to laught maniacally and quote old disco songs until she stomps off angrily.

It's all in good fun!