{"id":11411,"date":"2012-07-11T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2012-07-13T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T03:09:47","slug":"spelling-and-the-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/spelling-and-the-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling and the Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/spelling-and-the-dictionary\/spelling-and-the-dictionary\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11414\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11414\" title=\"Spelling and the Dictionary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spelling-and-the-Dictionary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spelling-and-the-Dictionary.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spelling-and-the-Dictionary-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My son just came up to me and asked me how to spell &#8220;diamond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I started to spell it for him, but then I told him to use the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How am I supposed to use the dictionary if I don&#8217;t know how to spell it?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>I had to smile and laugh inwardly because I remember having that very same question many, many years ago. And I am so thankful I was still told to use the dictionary because now I can find out all sorts of things on my own between the dictionary and so many other reference materials out there (Yes, the reference materials now include Google.)<\/p>\n<p>So I handed him my old trusty dictionary that I first used in journalism school at the University of Florida, where one spelling error took 50 points off of my final grade on any assignment. Then I showed him how to search for words and determine the spelling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure he was impressed. But I plan to keep handing him the dictionary every time he asks. And perhaps one day, he&#8217;ll skip me and see how he can learn himself.<\/p>\n<p>Aaahhhh&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/fivejs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joy of Five J&#8217;<\/a>s would be so proud. I&#8217;m teaching my son to fish for knowledge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>How do you teach your children to fish for knowledge?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son just came up to me and asked me how to spell &#8220;diamond.&#8221; I started to spell it for him, but then I told him to use the dictionary. &#8220;How am I supposed to use the dictionary if I don&#8217;t know how to spell it?&#8221; he said. I had to smile and laugh inwardly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11411"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11417,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions\/11417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}