| Life with a 5 year old, stuff and games [message #31941] |
Wed, 18 March 2009 14:05  |
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 Renae
Messages: 657
Registered: January 2005
Location: El Paso, TX |
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Hi all,
Well as you can see from the title of the post I'm -busy-, way to busy at times. Its interesting to see the changes a year will impose upon your child's development, and how they impact you. I'm looking forwards to my daughter going to kindergarten, just so she can burn off more of her energy there, but thats not until the end of August. Add in doing -something- painful to my knee, physical therapy on top of my other appointments that happen every week and it's [life is] even more hectic.
Then there is the evil game. Ok its not so much the game as it is the interesting people in the game. That and I tend to get extremely focused on whatever it is I am doing. Its not OCD, but well, when I do something i -Do It.- Maybe too much so lol. When I clean, it's like a tornado went through, when I write it's like a book trys to flow out, when I play.... Well, you get the idea.
So when I get to where I can run the laptop to write, while AFK grinding stuff... hmmm. 
Anyways, I'm still around, Mot' still around, but you try to write with a hyperkinetic kid crawling all over you.
Renae
You have two ways out, no not that one.
Tata!
Renae
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| Re: Life with a 5 year old, stuff and games [message #31978 is a reply to message #31941 ] |
Wed, 18 March 2009 16:15  |
heckfire
Messages: 176
Registered: July 2008 |
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I was, well, chemically insane for much of my son's early years (defective meds for depression and ADDS), but one thing we did a lot that ended up helping him become an excellent reader was, well, watching subtitled anime and turning on the closed-captioning when he'd watch TV or movies. It's kinda silly, I know, but I figgered if he was watching TV already, why not teach him how to read at the same time? He'd see the people talking, see the words on the screen, and start making the connection between them.
"I've never seen anything this beautiful in the entire galaxy.... All right, give me the bomb." —Ultra Magnus
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| Re: Life with a 5 year old, stuff and games [message #32229 is a reply to message #31978 ] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 01:04 |
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Aranis
Messages: 730
Registered: October 2008
Location: Mid-Atlantic US |
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I'd say that watching sub-titled anime has helped me be a better reader, too.
The main trick that I've learned is, instead of reading each individual word, focus on clusters of three to five words at a time. Once I learned to read that way, I got a HUGE boost in my reading speed.
-Aranis-
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| Re: Life with a 5 year old, stuff and games [message #32240 is a reply to message #31941 ] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 01:25 |
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Bookworm
Messages: 1576
Registered: July 2008
Location: Houston |
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I read every word individually, and still manage over 900 per minute (yes, they actually tested it at one point)
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| Re: Life with a 5 year old, stuff and games [message #32366 is a reply to message #31941 ] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 22:10 |
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Bookworm
Messages: 1576
Registered: July 2008
Location: Houston |
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*snork*
They stopped letting me compete in any reading contest. They'd have a prize for everyone else, and one for me - automatically.
Even in Junior High, my 'grounding' was simply 'no books'. I was never grounded from TV, or playing with friends, or anything like that.
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