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A couple of weeks ago I had to ground Ty from his xbox because he hit his brother with the controller in a moment of agitation.?? The next day he asked me if he was also grounded from his PSP.?? I said no.<\/p>\n
Fast forward.<\/p>\n
Incident repeats itself.?? Next day he asks me if he is grounded from his PSP.?? I say yes you may not play with the Xbox OR the PSP.<\/p>\n
Fast forward.<\/p>\n
Incident repeats itself.?? Next day he asks me if he is grounded from his XBox and PSP.?? I say yes.?? He inquires about the V-motion and computer.?? I say yes yes yes.?? You may not play with anything electronic at all.?? You need to learn that you cannot hit your brother.??<\/p>\n
Today he comes to me and says in a sweet little voice??”Mommy??? What am I not grounded for??? Am I allowed to play with any toys?”?? :)??<\/p>\n
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The worst thing about disciplining Ty is that he takes it so well.?? On the one hand it’s great because I don’t have to put up with much whining, crying, complaining, or bouts of temper.?? On the other hand, I often wonder if he cares.??<\/p>\n
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These are “am I done yet” smiles but I still liked them.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So here is the strange story of the day…<\/p>\n
Today I was reviewing the third grade Saxon Math textbook that came in for Tanner.?? While reading stuff, Ty says “Mommy that says Saxon Math Homeschooling – I can read now.”?? I sat there silent.?? The only thing he got wrong was homeschooling – it said “homeschool”.?? How did he know this??? The other night he picked up the shampoo bottle and said “This says helps babies sleep better”.?? ???????<\/p>\n
His word recognition is just ridiculous but I often guess that someone along the way told him what something (like the shampoo bottle) said and he just remembered.?? After the Saxon Math thing though…I decided to grab a children’s book I have no knowledge of reading him – something he wouldn’t be familiar with.?? I found a book on my shelf called Pooh Loves You.?? I handed it to him and asked him to read it to me.<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves honey from honeypots” – page 1<\/p>\n
HE READ EVERY WORD RIGHT!<\/p>\n
“And big balloons with polka dots” – page 2<\/p>\n
Struggled with polka “dats”<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves a warm and sunny day” – page 3<\/p>\n
Missed the word warm<\/p>\n
“when all his friends come out to play” – page 4<\/p>\n
Missed When – he said “with”<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves the flowers, tall and straight, that grow around the garden gate” – page 5<\/p>\n
Struggled with this page more but did get the first four words including flowers<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves to run and jump and then”….- pag 6 and 7<\/p>\n
All right<\/p>\n
“He loves to run and jump again” – page 8<\/p>\n
Didn’t know “again”<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves his soft and comfy bed where he can rest his sleepy head”<\/p>\n
Faked “where”, “sleepy” and “head” but got the rest right.?? If he doesn’t know a word he just gives a close phonetic guess and moves on.?? He reads really fast to so you have to slow him down to correct him.<\/p>\n
“Pool loves to climb up in the trees and say hello to busy bees” – page 10<\/p>\n
All right except “climb”, “busy”‘<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves to slip and slide on ice.?? With Tigger there, it’s twice as nice”<\/p>\n
Struggled with second sentence.<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves to look up at the sky and watch the butterflies go by”<\/p>\n
He didn’t get “look or watch” and missed butterflies the first time but then without giving him the answer I told him to sound the word out and he figured it out on his own.<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves to fly his special kite while little piglet holds on tight”<\/p>\n
Missed special, while, little, holds and tight.<\/p>\n
“Pooh loves Tigger, Kanga, and Roo, Rabbit, Eyore, and Piglet, too.<\/p>\n
I helped with “rabbit”<\/p>\n
“Pool loves many things it’s true.?? But Pooh especially love you”<\/p>\n
Missed “many” “things” “true” “especially”.<\/p>\n
Looking at the words he got right, I have NO idea how he would know words that aren’t easy phonetics!?? “Flowers, ice, by, sky, friends, comfy, play,??sunny, day”…..<\/p>\n
I am completely baffled by this.???? I realize that many children learn to read before Kindergarten but I would HIGHELY suspect that those that do were TAUGHT!!!!!?? How has he learned to read??? I can’t figure this out for the life of me.?? I see him do it all the time and I laugh it off and make excuses because it seems so impossible.?? Every time I see him read something I just make the assumption that somewhere along the line he has heard it and has an amazing memory.?? That still must be true but how has he formed such a large word recognition library??? He can sound out simple words phonetically.?? I must assume he learned that online or from the leap frog videos.?? I have only done TWO reading lessons with him using How to Teach Your Child in 100 Easy Lessons.?? I have waited on that until starting him in K.??<\/p>\n
When we had him evaluated recently, the developmental psychiatrist told us that he could not make connections and was going to have a very difficult time with reading and math.?? Ha!?? I’d say his ability to make connections is pretty fabulous.?? For example, in the above, he could read all the words ending in “y” (by sky) but could also read “sunny” and could read “day”.?? He either has memorized all those words (who knows how) – or he has already learned to apply the phonic rules from words he already knows (this is how children typically advance their reading skills – they learn to make those connections and once learning family groups, can go from there).<\/p>\n
My friend Sarah has twin boys – both diagnosed with autism.?? I will never forget when Sarah posted on her blog when one of them spelled “adventure” in letters on the fridge.?? I don’t remember the age but it was before K-garten.?? I was AMAZED.<\/p>\n
From my observation, when part of the brain is injured, other pieces kick in and excel in other areas.?? You hear these stories all the time.?? I know that reading the above words does not qualify as “AMAZING” but considering no one has given him any formal training, and his Developmental Psychologist questioned my sanity in homeschooling him because of all his “severe” and “lengthy list” of learning disabilities….it feels pretty amazing to this mom.??<\/p>\n
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