http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2010/01/less-tic-ing-more-talking/ Raising Bernard Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2010/01/less-tic-ing-more-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-2312 Karen Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:54:23 +0000 http://www.uborka.nu/rise/?p=1152#comment-2312 <p>Quite right too. I don't think we cajoled, just followed Bernard's lead. But perhaps he enjoys reading and writing because we can usually be counted on to do it with him; whereas pushing toy cars around on the floor isn't really my bag.</p> Quite right too. I don’t think we cajoled, just followed Bernard’s lead. But perhaps he enjoys reading and writing because we can usually be counted on to do it with him; whereas pushing toy cars around on the floor isn’t really my bag.

]]> http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2010/01/less-tic-ing-more-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-2311 graybo Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:02:23 +0000 http://www.uborka.nu/rise/?p=1152#comment-2311 <p>The whole reading thing does seem to be on the child's own timetable. We've found with Tom that, just before Christmas, he discovered a love of books and kept telling us "I want to learn to read". Which is (a) wonderful and (b) giving us a bit of pressure when a book is shoved under our nose when we are in the bath/cooking tea/on the loo. Tom's nursery is good on letters, words and reading. The have a letter of the week and the kids are encouraged to bring something to nursery that begins with that letter. He's also encouraged to write the letter. Joining the letters into words is taking a little longer, largely because he is obsessed with and easily distracted by the letter T ("T for Tom!!"), but we are getting there. But it must be said that the whole process has become dramatically easier since he developed the enthusiasm - cajoling didn't really get us far.</p> The whole reading thing does seem to be on the child’s own timetable. We’ve found with Tom that, just before Christmas, he discovered a love of books and kept telling us “I want to learn to read”. Which is (a) wonderful and (b) giving us a bit of pressure when a book is shoved under our nose when we are in the bath/cooking tea/on the loo. Tom’s nursery is good on letters, words and reading. The have a letter of the week and the kids are encouraged to bring something to nursery that begins with that letter. He’s also encouraged to write the letter. Joining the letters into words is taking a little longer, largely because he is obsessed with and easily distracted by the letter T (“T for Tom!!”), but we are getting there. But it must be said that the whole process has become dramatically easier since he developed the enthusiasm – cajoling didn’t really get us far.

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