Wow, it's been a while since we've posted! We've had a whirlwind start to the school year and just this week Ben popped up with the chicken pox. Thankfully, it's a pretty mild case so he's mostly itchy and feeling just bad enough to watch way too much TV. (Sickness is definitely a time when he doesn't have much interest in reading.)
Anyway, before the spots started popping up, we had dinner out with some friends and wandered into a bookstore afterward. Their sweet 7-year-old girl has a thing for books featuring animals on the cover, and is just headstrong enough to not take book recommendations. When she found a novel she was just sure she would love reading (and we adults were dubious about whether she'd like or finish it), her quick-thinking dad proposed what I thought was a great solution: we'll take turns reading. You read 20 minutes on your own and then I'll read some of the book to you for 20 minutes. He already reads to her every night, but this was a way of allowing her to earn her choice while helping her get through a tricky selection.
With book fairs already hitting our schools, this tip might come in handy very soon! How about you...have you come up with your own creative solutions to this kind of dilemma with your kids?
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