I don't like phonics. It seems to be the preferred way they teach children how to read these days. It involves, in part, never calling letters by name. They call letters by their sound. Like Te
instead of Tee
and sss
instead of Ess
.
It bothers me because it makes it impossible to talk with R about spelling. She'll have to unlearn all of this eventually to function properly in the world. Even without, it just makes it harder to do her spelling homework.
A couple of weeks ago I was working with her on spelling the days of the week, How do you spell 'Monday'?
Mm uh nn du aah yuh
Ok, I'm not closer to understanding if you know how to spell the word or not. If you don't use the names of the letters I can't work with you on this.
You'll get used to it
I paused a moment, turned away and just beamed. I could not have been more proud. This is the unreasonable girl. I turned and looked at L and told her You know, she's absolutely right.
This is her life, and the world she's going into is the one she'll make for herself. It's my job as her parent to learn how to cope with and support her.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
