We all know Aidie started Pre-K at a real live “big school” this year…well at the beginning of the school year the school sent home a contract. There were places for parent, student, teacher, and principal to sign, with pre-written statements each of those parties would agree to. The student’s had to do with coming to class on time and prepared, as well as describing acceptable behavior. The parent’s had to do with making sure the student got enough sleep, helping student arrive to school on time and prepared, and get this: reading to their student EVERY DAY. Sounds easy enough right? Most of us read to our kids regularly right?
Ask yourself: do you read to your kids regularly? Regularly enough to be considered often? Even if you read to your kids or WITH your kids OFTEN, would you say you do this daily? Probably not. I know I don’t (or didn’t if Mrs. Eakes is reading this).
And IF you’re a parent you have learned how to multitask. I bet since you sprouted offspring you have discovered a plethora of things you can do one handed with a baby on your hip! Or how about NO handed when you have a baby on each hip?? Yeah, we rock.
Well here’s a little multitasking confession that’s worked wonders for our family. Leaving the house early in the morning, working full time, dealing with the commute and dinner and cleaning and time-outing and spanking, etc, etc, etc, some nights it sure is hard to figure out how to squeeze in that reading time. Here’s how we do it OFTEN.
Now, I’ve heard of some talk about combining dinner time with bath time and I honestly haven’t figured out practically how to accomplish that or exactly how that would be beneficial TO ME (envisioning drains clogged with chicken nuggets). But bath time + book time = muy bueno at our place!!
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