-> CB>Children are not stupid - they know when they are being misled.
-> One >of my friends has a little boy who came home one day last year
-> with >a "story" he had written in first grade.  His mother asked him
-> to >read it, which he did - trying to remember what the gibberish on
-> the >page was supposed to mean.  When he was done he was clearly
-> upset, >so his mother asked him what was wrong.  He explained that he
-> >couldn't read what was on the page - it made no sense and didn't
-> >look at all like words written in a book.
-> Of course, he was upset. He would be just as upset if he'd tried to
-> read a book that he was not ready to read yet. IMHO, the mother
-> should have explained to her son that the author of the book was a
-> lot older than him and had years of practising reading and writing.
Ruth,
Read again what Charles wrote. The author of the book was the boy
himself. He was upset that he could not read what he, himself, had
written only on that same day.
Sheila
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