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The Mansion that is my son's brain - according to him

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I had asked my DS last week what his reading teachers’ name is and he didn’t know. I found out this morning what her name is from another mom. SO when I just picked up him I told him I found out her name . He said he already knew.

“so why didn’t you tell me when I asked you?” I said

” well I was in the mansion of my mind, and I lost the word” he said.

I started laughing at his analogy and he kept going - telling me his brain is big and powerful like a mansion, but since he can’t be everywhere at once sometimes he loses things for a while.

Thought you’d all enjoy this!

Submitted by victoria on Thu, 09/16/2004 - 3:29 AM

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An excellent image!

Now encourage him to put some filing cabinets in those rooms and organize things in categories in the cabinets. Seriously, this is a good way to organize your memory, to have a visual search plan.

Submitted by KarenN on Thu, 09/16/2004 - 5:36 PM

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There are few people in the world who could truly appreciate this analogy - thank you for sharing the humor with me!

Victoria - I am trying to “furnish” his mansion with some file cabinets - its a long long long haul!

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