Draw your own em
I was quite thrilled this morning when Mallory drew her own ‘M’. She was too. She can’t quite repeat the feat, though she’s clearly trying. I was mentionning the fact that we’d been practicing ‘M’s to one of her day care teachers, who offered that there was a child in her room who could write her whole name. “Oh but that one’s a product of genetic engineering,” I said.
I find it hard not to compare Mallory and put her into competition with other kids. I have to squish the urge. I’d rather she know that I adore her as she is, and that I think she is amazing and anything else is irrelevant.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I could print very prettily by the time I was three or so but used to chew on my wooden window sill. Give her three weeks and she’ll be quoting Shakespeare. At 49, because of an overuse of computers, I am unable to write anymore but my printing is beautiful.
I’m sure Mallory is the bee’s knees
March 7th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
An M! congrats to Mallory! Rowan (3) brought me proudly upstairs to show me her letter R – about three feet high and scrawled on the wall with a purple pencil crayon. She was beaming with pride and so I didn’t say anything about not writing on walls. It was really hard not to laugh, but that would have ruined it all…She talks about letter R a lot – being ‘her’ letter after all. “First you do a line, then a big bubble going around and then a line going down…” I have no idea who taught her this either.