[Final Exams Over] My eldest daughter's invented "way to answer health and physical education" was too funny

My eldest daughter's final exams have finally finished.

Great job!!!

Since she started middle school, our house has felt like a battlefield every time exams come around.

My eldest daughter is worse at "minor subjects" than the 5 main subjects

My eldest daughter actually has these characteristics.

• She manages with the 5 main subjects like English and Math

• She is particularly bad at Health and Physical Education and Music

• Even if we concede that she's not good at practical skills, she's also bad at memorizing for paper tests

She's obviously not good at practical skills like soccer, basketball, and swimming, but the amazing (?) thing about my eldest daughter is that she can't even memorize the rote-learning questions on the paper tests.

So, before every periodic test, she has a style of studying Health and Physical Education intensively.

The "question time" before bed has begun

Apparently, my partner has been asked by our eldest daughter to quiz her on Health and Physical Education every night before bed.

I think this is actually a pretty good habit.

But even when he asks the questions, there are some she can't answer immediately.

Here is what my eldest daughter said when that happened.

"If I don't know the answer for soccer, there's a high probability I'll get it right if I write **Knee! or Ankle!**"

"For basketball, it's Arm! Wrist!"

"For swimming, it's shoulders!"

"If that doesn't seem to fit, I'll just fill in the blank with using my whole body...""

Oh, wow...

In a way, isn't this kind of impressive?

The moment I heard it, I wanted to retort, "Is that really okay?" but wait a second.

The advice I'd been repeating until I was blue in the face—"just write something"—had been properly sublimated into my daughter's own strategy.

What's more, she's guessing and categorizing the body parts commonly used for each sport.

This makes me feel like... maybe she's actually quite sharp? (laughs)

Things you're truly bad at, you just can't remember

That's what I felt again this time.

"Things you're truly bad at, you can't remember even if you try."

For the five main subjects, she still has a desire to understand.

But for Health and PE, she has almost no interest to begin with.

So there's no hook for the knowledge to catch on, and it just slips right through.

Even so, my eldest daughter thought up her own way to tackle it.

For that alone, I think she deserves a job well done.

[Final Exams Over] The "Health and PE Answer Strategy" My Eldest Daughter Invented Was Too Funny: Summary

Thank you for reading this far.

Thank you!

Here is a summary of this post.

Regardless of the results, I want our home to be a place where the whole family can say "good job" to our eldest daughter for thinking for herself and seeing it through.

Thank you again for reading until the end.

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