Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for July 22, 2019

two birds with one stone

My nephew had an awful time learning to read because he, like his mother before him, memorised what was read to him without actually making the connection between letters and words. I was the one who found this out when I gave him a book for his 6th birthday and asked him to read it to me. “I can’t,” he replied, “you haven’t read it to me yet.” Somehow neither his mother nor his teachers were aware of what was going on.

Sounds like a win-win situation, CB. Sort of.

P-Tisch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI

The real gift was that Charlie Brown was there with her. And grandma understood that, even if she couldn’t hear.

My daughter was the opposite. She was ‘reading’ to us at 3 – but books we’d read to her many, many times. Then my mother gave her a brand new ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ book – and my daughter read it out loud to us, word for word.

I don’t recall having reading problems. I just had other problems even worse. I dealt poorly with people below the norm.