Concentration in Danish

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 2:39 pm

Peter Rukavina

One of the skills that [[Oliver]] gets from his Miller DNA is an uncanny ability to play the card game Concentration and related “turn over random things until you find two that match” activities. [[Catherine]] is a Concentration savant, as is our niece Patricia, and in recent weeks Oliver has been sourcing Concentration-like games online and watching him play is like watching Frank Sinatra sing.

By way of pre-Denmark cultural preparation, I added a bookmark to Oliver’s Firefox last night pointing at Oline, a pre-schooler website from Danish television. True to form, Oliver found a Concentration-like activity there, and [[Catherine]] just phoned me to say that every time he finds a match a big Danish cheer emits from the computer. As such, Oliver is becoming well-equipped to attend football matches and other cheering-related events in Copenhagen this spring.

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Just so happens I have, right

Just so happens I have, right here, a desktop shortcut to Thomas and Friends’ “Memory Match” game — one of Brodie’s early favs. He was dropping jaws before this third birthday, completing the ‘difficult’ level in impressive time. He’s got a memory like an elephant. Kind of spooks me sometimes by recalling in great detail things that happened when he was only eighteen months old.

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While we’re sharing “children

While we’re sharing “children + memory” stories: Oliver appears to have a very detailed map of the City of Charlottetown stored in his head as well. I swear that if I dropped him off at the Charlottetown Mall he could make his own way home.