although my quality of life would certainly improve if she didn't need me in order to experience endless consecutive re-readings of Just Shopping with Mom.
Oh yeah! I remember when Phoebe started reading independently; this, I realized, was the perfect age. Of course, she was five, so she had already mastered such things as toileting, dressing, and getting herself something to eat; reading was the last -X- for which I thought that life would be so much easier when she could -X- by herself.
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Date: 2007-04-12 07:02 am (UTC)Oh yeah! I remember when Phoebe started reading independently; this, I realized, was the perfect age. Of course, she was five, so she had already mastered such things as toileting, dressing, and getting herself something to eat; reading was the last -X- for which I thought that life would be so much easier when she could -X- by herself.