Lessons
At this current moment in time, I'm teaching my 5 year old to read using a book called Learn to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. The premiss is you teach a lesson everyday for 20 minutes and since it's only 20 minutes of fairly easy concepts and repetition it should be 'easy'. We are on lesson 50 and it is the hardest thing I have ever done! Imagine teaching Dory from Nemo, who has short term memory loss, combined with Animal from the Muppets. I'm not even kidding. It's that bad. On our last lesson we read a sentence that went something like, 'The goat ate the coat'. I asked him what we had just read and he looked at me point blank and said, 'I have no idea'. Cue my head exploding. What do you mean?! We just read it!!!! I thought I was patient. Wrong. By the end of every lesson, I want to pull my hair out and throw things at the wall. Very rarely, can I hold it together through the entire lesson without threatening sever consequences or