Extricating Myself From The Triangle

Tee is in grade four at the local public elementary school this year. One of the programs his teacher has in place is called Home Reading. As the teacher explained at the beginning of the year, it has been proven that readers become better readers by reading, and for her, the next logical step was [...]

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I’m Grateful….

……that all four of the children are avid readers. I love to read, I love books, I love discussing books, I still get chills remembering how exciting it was to open the covers of an as-yet unread picture book when I was very small. I’m so glad that my kids share my love of reading. [...]

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In Which I Grit My Teeth and Say Nothing

Big girl L found out at school that she’s expected to read 10 books in the next twelve weeks. According to her calculations, based on an estimate of 250 pages per book, and leaving weekends out, she’ll have to read 40 pages every day. Outside of school hours. Which for her is either at lunch [...]

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Boys and Books

There seems to have been a proliferation of graphic novels at the library, which is excellent news for Comics Boy. There’s a whole series of graphic mythology, like Roman Myths, graphic nonfiction, like Julius Caesar, and even historical fiction. Tee often goes on to reading more about subjects that he first comes across in these [...]

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Ethics 101

 We’ve been doing a lot of reading around here lately. It’s lovely. Cold outside, warm and snuggly inside, all lined up on the couch. One reading the Narnia series, one deep in the pioneer world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and me happily embarking on whatever I have in front of me. Even though we’re a [...]

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Teach Your Child To Read

When each of my children in turn learned how to read, I had an almost visceral sense of putting a little checkmark by their names in my head. It was a huge, huge, item crossed off my parental To-Do List. Up there with making sure they knew how to speak. I was lucky, because all four [...]

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