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| My turn for the parental brag... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 5 2012, 04:27 PM (398 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Jul 5 2012, 04:27 PM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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He's reading! Full on, reading. Sounding words out, page after page. He's been getting close for a while now, but today he read almost an entire book (the fat cat sat on the mat). i had to help him with maybe 10% of the words, but the second time he saw a word he'd get it. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 5 2012, 04:31 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Awesome! Be careful what you wish for. Next week he starts snarky retorts. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Cathys | Jul 5 2012, 04:36 PM Post #3 |
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Senior Carp
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Very cool!
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| George K | Jul 5 2012, 04:56 PM Post #4 |
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Finally
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And, so, it begins. Good on ya, Boy-NYC. Oh, yeah, what Mik said too. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Piano*Dad | Jul 5 2012, 05:02 PM Post #5 |
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Bull-Carp
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Indeed, and so it begins! This part is fun. |
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| George K | Jul 5 2012, 05:08 PM Post #6 |
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Finally
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I think my favorite part is when they become people, with real ideas that are independent of your influence. My youngest is 24, and I enjoy them now the most. I consider them peers. Stupid, frequently. But peers nonetheless. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mark | Jul 5 2012, 05:19 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Awesome! |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| apple | Jul 5 2012, 05:56 PM Post #8 |
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one of the angels
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3? that is awesome. |
| it behooves me to behold | |
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| Horace | Jul 5 2012, 06:35 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Great job, toddler-nyc! |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| brenda | Jul 6 2012, 06:38 AM Post #10 |
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That is terrific, Jon!! Keep him stocked with books, which I know you will. He'll be racing through them I predict.
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| apple | Jul 6 2012, 08:10 AM Post #11 |
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one of the angels
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one thing i admire most in toddlers' speech is the ability to use adverbs correctly... |
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| Optimistic | Jul 6 2012, 08:12 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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So cool, Jon! Reading with kids is fun. |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Optimistic | Jul 6 2012, 08:12 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Luke's Dad | Jul 6 2012, 08:25 AM Post #14 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Cool beans! But don't stop reading to him! To this day I enjoy reading books aloud to the family. We're getting ready to move into The Chronicles of Narnia. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 6 2012, 10:08 AM Post #15 |
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Cheers
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Dude, you should hear what they say about you.
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| George K | Jul 6 2012, 10:18 AM Post #16 |
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Finally
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I do. Why do you think I said "stupid"?
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| blondie | Jul 7 2012, 02:11 AM Post #17 |
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Bull-Carp
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You have a smart one Jon! So cool he's reading so young.
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| Klaus | Jul 7 2012, 02:30 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Did you read the book with him before, Jon? Kids have an amazing memory. Our 4 year old son knows a book by heart if you read it to him a few times. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 7 2012, 02:45 AM Post #19 |
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Cheers
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He wasn't reciting or recognizing individual words from memory (which he's done for a long time now), he really did make the shift to sounding out words (especially obvious when he gets one wrong). Here's a post from WTF with some more details. For those interested in the topic or with a desire to spur your own kids or grandkids, I have to give a lot of credit to a newish PBS series called Word World. http://pbskids.org/wordworld/index_flash.html We downloaded a few episodes on the ipad for our trip to Mexico and it really pushed him over the hump. Prior to that he was a good memorizer - indeed he could correct one wrong word you read out loud in books he knew well. He also had memorized quite a few words by sight and could even spell some. But it had realy been 'just' a memorization game. But Word World tought him, in rather short order, the technique of sounding out words letter by letter. In the series the characters build words with letters, which then morph into the object. Its really well done, I can't recommend it eoungh. |
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| RosemaryTwo | Jul 7 2012, 05:41 PM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Reading music will be close behind, eh? |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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