which was why I didn’t get around to blogging last night. We had a power cut. But we have lots of candles, so dp and I got to sit and chat by candlelight, which was actually rather pleasant.
There wasn’t much else blogworthy about the day anyway. Dd spent a lot of time going up and down to her room 🙁 She had started out quite nicely, with games built around Milly Molly Mandy – dp had added her a house to a scanned copy of the map from the book, and she was playing lovely games about that. But it didn’t last long.
She also said she wanted to learn to read, so I sat down (again) with a beginner reader book with her. But she won’t even look at the words – throws herself all over the couch, and sighs and moans – she appears to want someone to flick a switch so that she can read, and no matter how many times I explain that it doesn’t work like that, she acts like it’s my fault. So after half an hour of this, I rather lost patience. I don’t know what to do – she knows her letters, but doesn’t get the idea of sounding out words. I’d be quite happy to just leave it a while longer, but she is desperate to read, and it’s becoming an issue. I don’t want to spend loads of money on different schemes that don’t work, but I’m a bit lost as to what I should do. Right, got to go make her tea, and then I’ll update on today.
