The not reading stresses me out so much. I was not much older than he is now when I was reading the Oz books. I hate this whole ‘relinquish control’ part of motherhood! He’ll do it on his time and there’s no rushing him. Bella is lucky she’s homeschooled, I’m very nervous about sending my stubborn boy off to school.

And the one-click order button on amazon.com … makes ordering waaaay too easy!

And with the reading. That was my decision last year with Bella: just back off and let her come to it in her own time. Now I am freaking out a bit because She’s in first grade and I feel like I’m negligent if I don’t at least make periodic efforts to try to teach her to read. But I really do think that she is just going to be one of those kids who reads later than her cohorts. She has done so many other things slightly later like using scissors, drawing stick figures, and being able to count to ten.

I usually read only one chapter at a time but I would definitely make an exception for a book like the BFG. So true that you can’t send them to bed till that conflict has been resolved. However, I won’t be reading any Roald Dahl to my girls for some time. They are much too sensitive to dramatic tension. Bella even had to leave the room during Cars because something in it scared her. (I have no idea what. Maybe just the scenario of Lightening McQueen being lost and separated from his friends?)