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August 20, 2008
I wonder what they would do if I cried all the time?
Tonight was not my finest parenting moment. I swear sometimes I can hear the way I'm talking to the kids, and I still can't stop it. In this case, I was totally justified, but still totally wrong.
Moving on!
Owen would not stay asleep last night. He would *go* to sleep. Then he would scream. And shriek. At least once he sounded like he was in pain. The rest of the time he just sounded pissed off. At one point in the middle of the night, when I had just gotten him to sleep again and he started crying AGAIN, Rex and I just stood there staring at each other.
I feel like I was much less effective last night, but I was still a better parent than I was tonight.
I'm too tired to be upbeat tonight. I'll give it a shot with this one bit from today.
Jamie has these workbooks for preschool skills. She's got all the skills mastered, but she still likes to do the pages. In fact, she seems to like completing pages more than she likes doing them right, but that's another story. So anyway, she can do all the skills, but she can't read the directions yet. Actually, she knows a lot of the words, but not the bigger ones, and she tends to see the first letter of a word and just fill in the rest with something likely. She's really good at faking it, too. If you aren't looking over her shoulder, you would totally think she was reading, when really only half the words are right.
I had the audacity to make her try to read the words for real.
It's always hard to get Jamie to pronounce words. She knows the letter sounds as well as she knows the letters themselves, but she refuses to put them together into a single sound. She finds the whole process hard, and she HATES to do anything hard. I'm not a particularly patient person, but I held myself well in check today. We powered through.
We learned the word pattern. And after that, we pronounced all the other words she didn't already know. And we got through them with relative ease.
And after all that hard work, I had to explain that some words just don't make sense, sound-wise.
Right? Right.
Posted by me at August 20, 2008 10:02 PM
Comments
The more I taught my kids to read the more I realized that like half our words arent perfectly phonetic. Its frustrating and finally I just said, these words you just have to memorize and that's just how it is.
Posted by: Bec at August 22, 2008 6:25 PM