It’s so cute!!! Good call on the sheet protector making it dry erase friendly.
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When my kids were little, I made a morning schedule for each of them, with pictures, words and check-off boxes, and put them in cheap picture frames. They would check each box with a marker and then we’d wipe the glass off to start over the next morning.
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Honestly, they’d probably appreciate it if I made them ones now. We all love to check a box!
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Picture frame is a great idea! I made a new set that I was planning to laminate front and back sides for morning and night.
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Haha! Waking up? canceled! Brushing hair? Canceled! I love it
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So I saw this on Facebook today, and I was literally thinking about this earlier in the evening, because a book used a bunch of synonyms for walking slowly, and then a bunch of synonyms for walking quickly, and I just realized how unlikely I would be to use some of those in daily conversation were it not for books. Like saunter and dash and things like that.
(Related, Masala Chai fast and slow is a good book)
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Our school does a curriculum deep dive on rotating topics and we went to their presentation on the science of reading last year where they really emphasized these points. Basically they said vocabulary development and listening to stories to understand their structure is just as important as sounding out or recognizing specific words. In Kindergarten the kids only homework is reading with your family for a minimum of 20 minutes a day.
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My teens still mention the books we read over and over again when they were little. They’ll reference them in conversations and sometimes they’ll quote them and use them in different contexts, like if someone is not really listening during a group conversation one of them will say “and the bear snored on” or if someone is being grouchy one us will say “hey you, you wanna fight?” except we say it in Spanish because I used to read the Spanish version to them and at this point all we need to say is “oye tu!” and well all know what we mean although usually someone finishes it with “quieres pelear conmigo”. It’s a warm and cozy to have inside jokes that come from the shared experience of reading together in the good old days and isn’t that so sweet? The power of books, man.
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If you insis-s-s-s-s-t
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This is part of why I often enthusiastically recommend Vox books / wonder books for new readers - they can still control the experience but they can have picture books that aren’t otherwise accessible at their reading level.
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The level of complexity and detail that Latte retains from books she hears via Yoto is wild to me. Pretty sure she knows the first 4 boxcar kids novels by heart, not to mention the 100 odd picture books I read and recorded on there for her.
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My SEVEN YEAR OLD child thought it was funny to shove his face on my boob because “babies breast feed” and I did not punch him in the head, despite my body screaming that this is the appropriate reflex. Instead I calmly established boundaries around my body and redirected.
Gold star. loool.
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You did so good at not smacking or hitting him despite reflexes! Cannot say i would be as good as it.
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We’ve had a lot of struggles with Kiddo learning to read and then discovering he has dyslexia/ADHD so I’ve worried for a long time about his reading, especially as a huge book worm myself.
Now I read to him at bedtime as a regular thing and he reads on his own for a bit before lights out. He and Mr. Meer have started doing a kids book club, initially it was through the local library but now they’re doing it on their own as special time together.
There was a kids reading challenge online through our library so I suggested it to Kiddo and he liked the idea (he thinks his odds of winning a prize are good, I think they’re low but I’ll take him to get McDonalds or something as a treat) so I’ve been logging his minutes reading (with some guestimating). He actually reads more than I had realized! He’s currently at 475 minutes for the month, or more than 20 minutes a day average which is great considering on weekends he doesn’t read at bedtime at all.
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We figured out parental controls for our teens’ phones and computers and this afternoon they went to the park and built their little sister a blanket fort.
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@ginja_ninja ’s unhinged friend gave me my new parenting mantra. It has gotten me through biting meltdowns in front of the parents at school, having my passionfruit stolen, and I imagine many more to come.
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I’m curious whose expectations are not being communicated in the parent-child situation…
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Both I think. When I realize mine aren’t communicated I am sometimes able to communicate them. But sometimes it gets to bedtime and I find out I didn’t bake a cake or celebrate world Spongebob day or let them eat dinner and I never let them do anything and I keep interrupting.
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This is a gold star to Mackenzie’s mom who skipped “to my friend” on Valentine’s and stamped them all with the clothing stamp. I love you and have learned
- I personally just left B1’s blank and didn’t get any for B2
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