As I have mentioned before, something is not a good idea until it is Savannah’s idea. It is the most infuriating thing about her, but I’m going to have to learn to live with it. She comes around on things eventually, but sometimes the wait kills me.
She’s been able to read to some degree since she was three and I love to read, so I’ve been talking about how awesome reading is since that time. HOWEVER, the little stinker would say “I CAN read, but I hate to read”. Le sigh.
Enter last night, as we are reading one of her books before bedtime. (Despite the ‘I hate this!’ complaints, she has to read some to us every night.) She was trucking along and asked if she could continue reading. I asked her if she was maybe coming around to liking reading and she said ‘no, not at all’ then immediately said ‘alright alright! I love chapter books! I love them! I love reading them! Let’s read Chapter 3 too OK?’
Victory in our time…