is not so little anymore. I'm talking about the 12 year old. OK, I have to admit that I really like the fact that she is not ready to grow up. No shaving legs for her yet.... don't discuss boys around her, they are still either her cool friends or not even noticed... GOOD, I say... but the signs they are there if you wanna see them. This past week at the library, my precious little baby girl got a book from the adult section!!! GASP... NO, you say. YES, she did. She was browsing beside me, not wanting to get anything in particular for herself as she is in the middle of a book I had laying around while not-so-patiently waiting on an inter library loan. Lo and behold, beckoning her from the "New Non Fiction" section prominently displayed at the front of the adult section was a book she simply could not resist. Animal Tracking Basics by Jon Young and Tiffany Morgan. Last night she was in a conundrum because she couldn't decide which book to read first, the fiction title she is in the middle of, or this new amazing find!
The beautiful thing about this is that when I pulled her from private school she had no least interest in reading. SHE hated anything that had to do with learning to read or practicing reading. After a few frustrating years I decided to just QUIT worrying and STOP trying to force it and let her choose WHATEVER she wanted to read. She chose picture books WAY below her reading level for so long that I started to wonder if I was doing the right thing. I fretted, cried and worried.. All for naught it seems. She not only read now but she reads well, she reads nightly, she reads for pleasure, She READS!! Now if we could only get the hang of math facts and spelling she would be perfect eh? (OK maybe not perfect but I could quit worrying, crying and fretting about it!)
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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I love it! Not that she's growing up, but that she loves reading so much!
I had an experience like this yesterday at the library. I had Ben and Kate with me and was looking for a specific cookbook. Ben kept pulling stuff off the shelves, "Mom...look at this! This is cool!" And he's the child I was convinced would NEVER read.
Oh, and I'm with ya on the scatter-brained-ness, girl!
Of course it came to her eventually, I mean we come from a family of devout readers! I'm glad she has found the joy of books. I can't belive she is twelve already. I remember when she was born! ...LOL, God I was only 10! Yikes. Love you guys! Brittney
I was thinking this morning how just 3 years ago my (now 9.5 year old) had NO interest in reading. Then, she decided to be interested and taught herself to read. (She had heard me trying to teach phonics to her older brother so she figured it out.) Now she reads a book a day.
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