While my daughter's thing with reading has been written about constantly, I seem to have neglected to write about my older son. The two are so incredibly opposite that it's almost hard to believe the two have anything in common! My daughter hates anything that has to do with school. My older son loves everything to do with school.
Just the other day I decided to sit down with my son and read only to find out that it wasn't going to be anything like I expected. Normally he'll ask me to read book after book, but he won't actually take much interest in it. He would listen to the story, make some comments about the pictures, and that would be about it. Yesterday was different. Yesterday we had a book that had numbers and the alphabet. He enjoyed counting to ten with the book, and then, to my surprise, insisted on doing the alphabet twice! We haven't been working much with the alphabet because he hasn't wanted to work with the letters. We discuss some letters now and again, but he hasn't shown much interest.
Where my daughter seems uninspired to learn and do school work, my son is always asking to do school. He always wants to be learning something. He's very resistant on writing, but he seems eager to learn how to read, do math, and everything else. I have to admit, I worry that I'm going to miss out on this opportunity with how busy I've been. I also worry that, now that I have a child that wants to learn so readily that I'm just not going to be able to teach him well enough. Seeing the way things have gone with my daughter has brought a lot of fears to my mind.
I know I'm worrying about this too much. I know I'll be fine with this whole homeschooling thing with a child that truly does want to learn. I know when it comes to having a kid that doesn't rebel at the first sign of something that sounds like school I'll really enjoy it. I'm going to have a lot of fun with teaching him. I just need to relax into it and let it happen.
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