Erin read Green Eggs and Ham to me tonight. Right to me. She read it all. I lay on the bed with her as she puzzled out the sounds. “G…got? Is it long-o or short-o? I think it’s long-o. Goat.” “Why is the ‘O’ long?” I asked her. “Because there’s an ‘A’ next to it,”…
Category: True
When Parents Leave The Burn Book Out
On one day each week, Erin’s kindergarten has an early dismissal, right around lunchtime. This is also a day I keep Adrian home from preschool, so I meet Erin at her classroom with Adrian, a lunch, and a picnic blanket, and we hang out and eat lunch next to the playground. Erin and Adrian will…
Freerunning for Five-Year Olds: Trading Patty-cake for Parkour
Erin is a born daredevil. When she was a baby, she would commando-crawl to the edge of her play spaces, finding doors and staircases leading to new worlds. She was so fast as a commando she never really bothered crawling upright. She passed quickly from crawling to running, and then the world was her oyster….