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Parenting: Discovering how to Read ? My duaghter loves to read. She reads more than I do. Ofcourse I have a job...lol But I could never get my son to sit still long enough to read to him. I was lucky if he let me get through two pages before he started playing games or wanting to jump on my back. Like any good Dad - I think I have the best Parenting skills around. Ofcourse my duaghter made it easy for me. My son - well, he is just proving how difficult parenting can be. For a while there I was concerned that my son would be the "not so smart" one in the family. You know, every family has the geek and the jock [ meaning the smart one and the dumb one ]. But my son gave us a nice surprise the other day. I've tried getting him to read these "hook on phonics" books I used with my duaghter - but he wouldn't listen. But out of the blue - my wife comes and tells me that he can read on his own. That he just grabed the hooked on phonic books and showed her he could r...

The twilight Series book saga: Ok, what's the big whoopdi doo dah??? Granted, I didn't get into the Harry Potter books until I saw the first movie - but this Twilight saga thing is - sort of blah with me. I've seen enough vampire movies to fill several hundred thousand books. heck I could probably write my own vampire book [ I didn't say it would be good ].... I haven't seen the movie and have no interest but my duaghter is hooked on this book series. I guess it's good she's reading - reading books that I might add are way thicker than most books I read when I was eleven. But now she has my wife hooked on reading these "twilight " books... In fact my duaghter, my wife and a friend all made a day of it when they went to see the movie. They all came back all giddy and stuff. You would think it was a star wars movie or something.... So, since she is a big fan - I wanted her to give you some words on why she loves this twilight saga book series and bel...