Today my daughter gave me everything I needed to make my move. She declared that all she ever did was play. She was bored of playing. She wanted to color. She wanted to watch a movie. She wanted to do anything that was different than playing. The only reason I hadn't been letting her color was a loss of crayons in the move. I couldn't find them, so she's kind of been on hold with that in the whole unpacking process. However, that little complaint had given me everything I needed. I told her she wasn't allowed to do anything but play and look at books until she could prove to me she could do math and read.
Wouldn't you know it? She picked up one of the Bobbsey Twins Level 1 Reading books
and read the whole thing! There was a little bit of resistance at first, but before long she had not only read the book, but she had gone on to do entire sets of addition and subtraction, with visual aides. Isn't it amazing what little it takes to get a kid to prove they can do something?At the end of it all she got to play a few games on the Wii
while I was out at class. I got home to hear all about it. We reminded her that once she learns to read, she can play some of the harder games all by herself. Once she learns to read and do math, she can even take the complete body tests on the Wii Fit Plus
, which she's been asking about since it's the way they let her put her own stamp on. It's been something she's asking about for a while now.With all of this going on, it probably shouldn't be surprising that her little brother isn't too far behind on that whole reading thing! I'll have to write about his learning journey soon!
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