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October 04, 2005
Setting a good example....
We had a busy weekend and Sunday evening as I was getting everything together for school the next day (allow me some credit for this organisation skill) I suddenly remembered we had forgotten to do her reading homework. I took one look at the child whose eyes were drooping as she unenthusiastically shovelled the remains of her dinner into her mouth and so, to the sound of her running bath I took out the homework book and found myself scribbling ‘Littleone enjoyed reading to me this weekend’ and then because I thought one sentence didn’t sound convincing enough I added another one; ‘She is very good at recognising the given sounds.’
Yep, as if lying wasn’t irresponsible enough I had to make my daughter out so be some sort of child genius.
I keep thinking that karma is going to slap my wrists by making sure she can never read properly so that I will have to read Zigby Camps Out to her every night until she is 21. Worse still what if it went the other way and she really did become a child prodigy and I had to endure the humiliation of having a four year old correct my increasingly poor grammar.
We did double last night just in case.
Posted by purple elephant at October 4, 2005 02:56 PM