In other parenting news...

[cherydactyl]

My younger daughter M, age 5.5, who will enter kindergarten this fall, last night read Green Eggs and Ham to me, with occasional help on certain words. She read 98% of it to me without help. For the record, I did not demand she read anything; she decided that she would read it to me at bedtime

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[cherydactyl]

She's been a proto-reader denying she was a reader at all for months and months and months. I was making myself not push her, which was slightly hard, actually, as I could see the skills developing. Her older sister wasn't much of a reader until well into 2nd grade, at which point we were getting concerned. In fact her lack of progress was was made us look into an ADD diagnosis. She had a breakthrough not long after we started medication. Presently S is reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, so she's doing fine now. But, anyway, *I* was reading before I entered kindergarten, which started for me on my 5th birthday. I was pretty sure M had it in her. :) But she still blew me away.

I bet your Charlie and my S would get on like a house on fire; I really do.

[therck]

Yea! Neat! Go M!

Please pass along my glee if you think it will encourage her.

[a2macgeek]

It's always so cool when they start reading.

[neoliminal]

The awesome!

[evalerie]

Oh cool -- congrats!

Appropriately, I ran into her today at the library. :)