Raising Them To Be Nerds

Can one "nerdify" one's child? Or is it fully the work of genetics when you see those tendencies arising from those little minds? From today's lunch conversation, I'm pretty sure environment plays a key factor it in all.

Luke and Abby were playing some kind of game. It involved one calling out an event (i.e. the first to chew the apple) and then declaring if the person to accomplish the said event was the winner or the loser. Which led to Luke and Abby using the word "losed" as in lost.

So, yes, we had a long, lengthy discussion about the word lost. Luke argued that it made more sense to be "losed" (and it does btw). But I informed him there was no such word and that led to the pulling out of the dictionary. Which led to the discussion of the numerous other verbs that are conjugated in odd ways (i.e. fly and flew, sleep and slept). Which led to the discussion of what a verb was. Which led to me quizzing him on random made-up sentences and having him pick out the "action word." Which led to the discussion of what nouns are...and so on and so on. I started on adjectives and adverbs but decided he could wait for that....

And I thought the discussion on magic and witches on the way to school was deep. One of these days, he's really and I do mean, really, going to stump me.

Let the nerdifying commence!