Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] The light bulb moment
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In a message dated 4/9/00 4:44:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
Tracy@...-online.co.uk writes:
<< it sometimes seems to me as if I was born reading! This has led to a
heavy reliance and belief in books, which has only really been shaken into
objectivity by adulthood. Also, I used reading as an escape mechanism from
the bullying etc I received at school. So while it might seem like a good
idea if children read alot, there is still 'too much, >>
Tracy,
My oldest was like that - he can't remember a time when he couldn't read.
I'm like you are about books. I view a good book as a friend. I think that
reading can be carried to excess like anything else, but I guess if I had to
choose a vice for my child (as if they won't choose their own! LOL) I would
choose too much reading. I probably read too much as a child and teen. I
always had my nose in a book. My parents were wise though. I can't remember
them ever once telling me to put the book down and go do something else. I
think this is a good thing for me to remember as an unschooler. I have to
admit that when my boys have been on the computer for several hours or have
been drawing comic books for a whole morning, I usually try to redirect them
to something else. Maybe I should trust them to stop when they need to stop
but it's tough for me not to step in. My folks must have really trusted me!
*** KiM ***
runs with scissors
Tracy@...-online.co.uk writes:
<< it sometimes seems to me as if I was born reading! This has led to a
heavy reliance and belief in books, which has only really been shaken into
objectivity by adulthood. Also, I used reading as an escape mechanism from
the bullying etc I received at school. So while it might seem like a good
idea if children read alot, there is still 'too much, >>
Tracy,
My oldest was like that - he can't remember a time when he couldn't read.
I'm like you are about books. I view a good book as a friend. I think that
reading can be carried to excess like anything else, but I guess if I had to
choose a vice for my child (as if they won't choose their own! LOL) I would
choose too much reading. I probably read too much as a child and teen. I
always had my nose in a book. My parents were wise though. I can't remember
them ever once telling me to put the book down and go do something else. I
think this is a good thing for me to remember as an unschooler. I have to
admit that when my boys have been on the computer for several hours or have
been drawing comic books for a whole morning, I usually try to redirect them
to something else. Maybe I should trust them to stop when they need to stop
but it's tough for me not to step in. My folks must have really trusted me!
*** KiM ***
runs with scissors
Lynda
I don't remember learning to read either but DO remember starting school
and getting in trouble for already reading and writing cursive. Now that
was a moment because I couldn't understand why I got yelled at for doing
something my parents and extended family had been so tickled by. Took me
until the 4th grade to figure out the teachers and that was a light bulb
moment!
Now, as to chocolate, it's Dove Truffles!
Lynda, who is peeved that they only make them one time a year! Or maybe I
should be thankful! <<<BEWG>>>
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I don't remember this, it sometimes seems to me as if I was born reading!
This has led to a heavy reliance and belief in books, which has only really
been shaken into objectivity by adulthood. Also, I used reading as an
escape mechanism from the bullying etc I received at school. So while it
might seem like a good idea if children read alot, there is still 'too
much,' as with tv or chocolate (HERESY!!!) or anything. I know I've had
'lightbulb-moments,' but right now I can't remember any. I love watching
when the kids have them though :-)
Tracy, whose daughter is just learning that she was in a big hurry to see
the world, being 5&1/2 weeks prem, some things don't change <g>
and getting in trouble for already reading and writing cursive. Now that
was a moment because I couldn't understand why I got yelled at for doing
something my parents and extended family had been so tickled by. Took me
until the 4th grade to figure out the teachers and that was a light bulb
moment!
Now, as to chocolate, it's Dove Truffles!
Lynda, who is peeved that they only make them one time a year! Or maybe I
should be thankful! <<<BEWG>>>
----------
I don't remember this, it sometimes seems to me as if I was born reading!
This has led to a heavy reliance and belief in books, which has only really
been shaken into objectivity by adulthood. Also, I used reading as an
escape mechanism from the bullying etc I received at school. So while it
might seem like a good idea if children read alot, there is still 'too
much,' as with tv or chocolate (HERESY!!!) or anything. I know I've had
'lightbulb-moments,' but right now I can't remember any. I love watching
when the kids have them though :-)
Tracy, whose daughter is just learning that she was in a big hurry to see
the world, being 5&1/2 weeks prem, some things don't change <g>
----- Original Message -----
From: monkeycoop@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 7:59 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] The light bulb moment
It seems that everyone I talk to can remember a light bulb moment in the
process of learning to read - that AHA where you went from painstakingly
sounding out words to actually GETTING it. It's as if the code is
finally
broken and you're seeing the words on the page for what they really are.
Mine came while I was reading a Family Circus comic strip. Thelma (Mom)
is
standing in the bathtub holding a part for the plumber, who is working on
the
faucet. Dolly comes in and says, "That was [so and so] on the phone. I
told
her you couldn't talk right now because you are in the bathtub with the
plumber." I sounded it out, then again, and suddenly I could just READ
the
whole thing without sounding it out at all! I just looked at all the
words
on the page at once, and they stood on their own, as if they had come to
life. I was 4 at the time, I think. We were on vacation in Kansas City,
at
a hotel with a pool on the roof, and my sister threw up in the hallway on
the
way back to our room after dinner that night. She'd had fish.