Meredith hasn't been practicing her guitar like she should. Meaning she hasn't been doing it at all. So tonight I did something most parents would never dream of doing. . . . I told her if she didn't practice her guitar, I wouldn't let her read.
Do you even understand that I can forbid reading as a punishment? I know a lot of kids think reading is the punishment. Thankfully, I don't have that problem. Granted ~ they don't just sit around reading during the day, but I let them read awhile in bed at night.
Who knows? Maybe they just read then to put off going to sleep?
Whatever. It seems to work. Meredith reads a book a night. Hayden reads bigger books but he reads about 45 min to an hour a night. Stephanie is chomping at the bit wanting to be able to read. I picked her up some beginner readers and showed her that she knows a few of the words so she can look for them while she "reads" at night.
It's 9:20pm and Meredith is just wrapping up her guitar practice. I made her stay up since she hadn't practiced. She did a good job so I'll let her read 20 minutes in bed now.
