Conversations with my 10 y/o DD 1st day of Preparing
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:38 am
After reading Grandpa's Box, ch. 1:
Me:"Tell me what you learned about grandpa from this story."
DD:"I learned that he has A LOT of good stories that he can tell, but I have to wait for them because my mean mom won't read me any more chapters."
Me: "How does Grandpa use the yellow box?"
DD:"To tell stories that I won't get to hear today because my mean mom won't read me any more chapters."
And so on, through the rest of the questions. <giggle>
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After getting her extensions reading assignment:
"Will you PLEASE read this to me? I can never remember science and history stuff when I have to read it. It's SO boring!"
After reading her extensions reading assignment and reading it independently:
"I CAN'T WAIT until tomorrow to find out what happens next. Oh, Mommy, why couldn't we have used a book like this all along? I remember EVERYTHING!"
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At the end of the day, I asked how she liked it (it's 180 degrees from what we were doing last year).
"Well, it's still SCHOOL, but I have to say it was the MOST FUN SCHOOL DAY I EVER HAD! I learned about caves and the ice age and wooly mammoths and how the flood caused everything and how I'M NOT EVEN CLOSE to preparing myself as a Christian to go out and do good in the world because I don't take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and look at it often enough and I learned that there is a place called the tundra and it's at the top of the world and...
...I learned that my mom won't read me an extra chapter of Grandpa's Box, even when I bat my eyes and beg."
(Run on sentence hers, not mine. I love that she loved it. And remembered so much! But my heart is all melty at how CONVICTED she was, on day ONE, that she had a responsibility to read God's Word, and hadn't been doing it "often enough".)
-Rebecca
Me:"Tell me what you learned about grandpa from this story."
DD:"I learned that he has A LOT of good stories that he can tell, but I have to wait for them because my mean mom won't read me any more chapters."
Me: "How does Grandpa use the yellow box?"
DD:"To tell stories that I won't get to hear today because my mean mom won't read me any more chapters."
And so on, through the rest of the questions. <giggle>
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After getting her extensions reading assignment:
"Will you PLEASE read this to me? I can never remember science and history stuff when I have to read it. It's SO boring!"
After reading her extensions reading assignment and reading it independently:
"I CAN'T WAIT until tomorrow to find out what happens next. Oh, Mommy, why couldn't we have used a book like this all along? I remember EVERYTHING!"
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At the end of the day, I asked how she liked it (it's 180 degrees from what we were doing last year).
"Well, it's still SCHOOL, but I have to say it was the MOST FUN SCHOOL DAY I EVER HAD! I learned about caves and the ice age and wooly mammoths and how the flood caused everything and how I'M NOT EVEN CLOSE to preparing myself as a Christian to go out and do good in the world because I don't take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and look at it often enough and I learned that there is a place called the tundra and it's at the top of the world and...
...I learned that my mom won't read me an extra chapter of Grandpa's Box, even when I bat my eyes and beg."
(Run on sentence hers, not mine. I love that she loved it. And remembered so much! But my heart is all melty at how CONVICTED she was, on day ONE, that she had a responsibility to read God's Word, and hadn't been doing it "often enough".)
-Rebecca