Soon after starting school 3 years ago, my friend's little girl came home upset because she couldn't read as well as some of the kids in her class, even though her counting was really good.
My friend comforted her by comparing her to me - saying "Auntie C can read and write, but she can't count to 100 like you can"
Her reading is much better now, but she still believes that I can't count without using my fingers and toes...
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- When I was in school i thought that teachers read scripts to say good moring blah blah blah— Corina
- I used to believe that it would take forever to count to 100— Jeff