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Joined: Mar 2013
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Amazing progress and heart warming to read!
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Oh Michelle, what a terrific brag! Big, big hugs to your DD for all her hard work!!
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Awesome, MichelleC!
While we're talking about literature and kids, my DD10 is now providing me with reading material, rather than the other way around. She bought the whole Maze Runner series with her own money, and dropped the first one on my nightstand several days ago when she finished it.
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You guys are so beyond lovely. I'm all snuffling up again and can barely see the keys.
A wonderful long weekend to all!
P.S. to Dude: my book-sharing problem arises when DS10 catches me sneaking into his room at night when I think he's asleep, to steal his book before he's done with it...
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Oh, I don't even bother to sneak...I just take my children's books whenever they're out of their hands. And I am not above: "Don't you have schoolwork to do?" And then curling up with the target book.
We do have a strict rule on books received as personal gifts, though. Until the recipient has finished the book, no one else is allowed to poach it.
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MichelleC, that's so awesome - you must be one proud mama  DS5 has been taking piano lessons from DH for the last...2 months? He loves to create little melodies on the piano for fun. But tonight, he made up this lovely little song, with harmony, and then, with a little help/encouragement from DH, wrote the song on staff paper, including clef, time signature, notes and all. It was so sweet and I'm just really proud of him.
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You know what I really love about MichelleC's post? Two parents who are so comfortable (but not passive) with their own and their DC's strengths and weaknesses that they've been able to take the sting (and the stigma) out of her dyslexia, and transform it into a victory for her character and determination.
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Oh, I don't even bother to sneak...I just take my children's books whenever they're out of their hands. And I am not above: "Don't you have schoolwork to do?" And then curling up with the target book.
We do have a strict rule on books received as personal gifts, though. Until the recipient has finished the book, no one else is allowed to poach it. And me buying a random book at the book fair isn't a "gift", I can poach those. But I didn't poach Spy Kid after he read it his review was so good and then he brought it to me. Almost done, it is very cute. Waiting for him to read his Will in Scarlet book from the fair.
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Awesome!
DD and I started reading Romeo and Juliet together tonight. She asked for more at bedtime, and upon seeing the passage where R&J first speak, noted, "This is a sonnet-style quatrain. So this this! And this! It's a sonnet!"
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I am just so amazed by DS7's reading speed and insatiability these days. He's blazing through 800+ pages a week (stuff like Redwall and Percy Jackson). I have no idea how I'm going to keep him in books, mind you, but wow.
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