10.13.2008
A, B, C's
When Connor turned 2 last January I bought books about the alphabet and letters for the bathtub with the intention of helping him get his ABC's down. He was totally disinterested. I read the books over and over and pulled the tub toys out but he was never very into it. I tried singing the ABC song but he'd ask me to "Stop, please". What was I to do? I just inserted teaching moments when I could and guessed he could learn his ABC's in Preschool or Kindergarten. So imagine my surprise tonight when I passed by the bathroom as he was taking a bath and heard him singing the ABC song to himself! I peered into the bathroom and saw him arranging the letters on the tub and singing the song to himself over and over and over. A few letters were jarbled in there but for the most part he got them all. Um, okay. He must study by himself after he goes to bed.
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So cute! We are still learning our ABCs. That story reminds me how you used to joke that Connor was practicing crawling and walking in his crib. I guess he's a do it yourselfer. :)
Cambri absolutely refuses to learn anything that I try to teach her. So I bought that Letter Factory DVD by Leap Frog and magically she learned all of her letters and sounds.
TV--my kind of parenting.
sometimes I wonder if the things i say and teach sink in, too. I think it does more than we realize. I just hope they remember the good, wise things I say and not the other 90%. :)
So that's what they are doing when they won't go to sleep...
I love it! Jane's that way with some things. But even more so now that she's in Pre-School. I ask her what she did that day and then ask her to show me and she tells me, "You know how to do it mommy, I don't need to show you." Maybe that's why they don't like to perform for us. We already know how to do it =)
I used to have "school" every day with Noah, and yet there were so many things I taught him that he just didn't get. I wanted to give up- and for a while I did. And the same thing happened. One day it just clicked! I guess it should make sense, because I am the same way.
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