Self-managing kids often seems like completely wishful thinking, especially at the end of a long weekend of childcare. but occasionally, they show signs of it, as he has over the past couple of weeks. He decided – exhibiting the autonomous type of self-improvment thinking you perhaps don’t think 4 year-olds are capable of – that it was time he started teaching himself to read in sentences. Not that we had negelected him and left him to his own devices – far from it! But reading in sentences is not explicitly taught at his pre-school.
So one day in January he started reading words, using phonetics to work out any words he didn’t grasp immediately ( occasionally asking for help, obviously) and stringing them together into sentences.
It was one of those spurts of development where the neurons seems to be firing off in greater numbers than normal. he’s also become very curiosu abotu cvalendras, years, days etc (he’s lknown his months and been able to tell us the date each morning for a few months now, thanks in part to the opening titles of the Daily Show, if we’re honest.
Makes us wonder what is next – I know you’re supposed to plan all these things out, but who does that really?