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Ben’s Desire to Learn to Read
Nov 19, 2008 by Scott in Family, Work Leave a comment
When I get home from work, Ben almost always asks me, “how was your day, Daddy?” And I respond, “Good”, “Long”, “Busy”, etc. He sometimes follows up the question with, “what did you do at work?” I mostly respond, “I looked at numbers all day and made changes to our marketing campaigns.”
Somtimes on Wednesday’s Heidi and I go to lunch together before her afternoon meetings at the school she teaches at. Today we went to Joe Bandido’s near my office. We had a great conversation about Heidi’s class and about the boys. Heidi said that Ben asked her the other day, “Daddy looks at numbers all day at work. Mommy, what do you do at work?” Heidi told him that she taught little boys and girls how to read. Ben’s eyes got real wide and he said, “Can you teach me how to read, Mommy?”
Now, a while ago I apparently told Heidi that I didn’t want her to teach Ben how to read because I didn’t want him to be forced to learn to read or write and hate school as much as I did. So, Heidi, remembering what I had said, told Ben, “no” but that he would learn to read when he went to school. She said that she would teach him other things and they could have “school” at our house. Well, my point of view has changed since I had made that comment, because Ben is so smart already. He knows all his letters and letter sounds. He memorizes the books that Heidi and I read to him every night. And he thirsts for knowledge and really shows interest in learning to read. So, I think we’re going to try it out and see if he really wants to learn to read or not. I think he will love it.
