Tune Me Up, Extra Lube - LTU6 5.75G

[Shannon]

Teaching a willful child is best done by making them want to do whatever you want them to do. I was a willful child with a lot of fear, and I decided I could not read when I was 4 years old. My mother taught me the alphabet and how to sound out words, but I decided it was impossible for me to read.

So she tricked me into reading. She would start a story I really enjoyed, and then when I got good and interested, she would put the book down and go do something else. When I asked her to keep reading she suggested that I might try to read it.

I insisted that I couldn't. So she sat next to me and pretended to have trouble figuring out what a word was, and asked me to sound it out for her. As time went on, I got good enough at it that I was too impatient to wait for her when she would put the book down, so I picked it up and started reading. Then she pointed out to me that... hey... you're reading! Congrats!

Maybe that will help.