As I was going over Jack’s lesson with him, it was time for him to answer questions about the story I had just read. You know, the part where you learn whether or not your child was paying attention.
“So, Jack. What would the little girl do in the garden?”
Jack looked lost, but he gave it his best effort. Most stories we read together try to send subliminal messages about how reading is good, kids love it, it’s fun to do everywhere, yada yada, so he gave it a shot, “Rrrrread a book?” he asked skeptically.
(He hadn’t been paying attention.) “No, good try. Listen again to this part of the story as I read it. ‘She would weed in her garden’...”
“Oh. Weed a book?”
You know how you never want to burst out laughing at a child when you’re trying to teach him something and he makes a simple and honest mistake? It’s hard. It’s very, very hard.
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