When you have a child who doesn’t seem fussed about reading, it’s hard to know what to do to encourage them without putting too much pressure on and turning them off even more. As a bookworm myself, it’s even harder…
When you’re pregnant your main wish for your child is that they’re healthy. The next wish is that you know what you’re doing and can cope with having a baby. And then a variety of different hopes. For me I…
I love to read, and always have done. It’s one of the reasons I despair at N not being that interested in reading himself. He loves books and having someone else read him a story, but I’m still trying to…
Reading ability is such a key skill for children to enable them to progress well at school, it’s no wonder many parents worry about how their children are doing. I previously shared a comparison of the different reading levels and…
When children start school the one thing that is the most confusing (other than where do all those lost jumpers and water bottles go?) is reading levels. Not the learning to read because the phonics system makes sense. But primary…
When I was a child I always struggled with my lack of imagination. I read lots but if I was tasked with writing a poem or story and I would find it really hard. I’d clam up and not know…
So far so good in my reading challenge for 2013. I’m onto book number 7, and have been mixing up my books between my favourite authors and genres (crime, psychological thriller, chick lit) interspersed with Kindle books I’ve found for…
N obviously takes after me in his love of books (plus of course being a typical toddler who’s sucking up all the information in them!). We tend to have to read quite a few before bedtime, although sometimes he’s quite…
