Coming home from work to nightly "show and tell" is one of the highlights of my day. Our oldest has been sounding out words on his own. I'm amazed me every time, and he knows it. Apparently wanting to really blow me away after work, he pulled out a book and starting reading it to me. The book was "The Wheels on the Bus," and I think he was hoping that I'd forgotten that he's had it memorized for a while now.
Not sure how to react, I enthusiastically congratulated him for singing the song so well. But, I am realizing that he sometimes thinks that it's better to show me what I want to see or to tell me what I want to hear than to risk disappointing me. I need to do better at conveying to him that shortcuts aren't necessary, that I am never disappointed with this efforts, and that I am always impressed with him because he is always trying. Perhaps I should show some excitement over his failures, because those are important to learning too.
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