CHASING THE 2016 NFBC: Choosing our Main Event draft slot, ADP and KDS

My 5-year-old twin baby girls started kindergarten this year. I think back to when I was in kindergarten ... ummm, we'll say a couple years back.  I don't remember much of that time—but I do remember we learned letters; the alphabet. The first building blocks of learning.

My girls? They learned the alphabet in pre-school, and probably knew it before then from Dora or Internet learning tools. In kindergarten, they are already learning to read. Words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, books—so far ahead of where I was when I was their age.  And my son in 3rd grade? I think he just passed his first advanced calculus exam!

Still, letters—whether learned in kindergarten when I was 5, or when practically still in the womb like my children—were...

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