Island Blessed

• Nov. 21, 2006 - The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened!

Turns out that homeschooling really does work and that I'm not screwing up my kids after all!

Case in point: Just now, as I walked into Timothy's room to kiss him goodnight, I saw that he was reading as he waited for me. This is fairly typical, as he has finally discovered reading for pleasure. I expected to see that he was reading one of the books he'd gotten from the library, but on closer inspection I saw that the book he had was actually Better English (an Usborne book).

He was reading his English grammar text FOR FUN!

I nearly died! After doing the happy dance and then collapsing on the floor in an exhausted heap of glee, amazement, and pride, I finally asked him if he was REALLY reading Better English, or if he was just teasing me.

He assured me that he was indeed reading it because he got to thinking about the parts of speech and sentence structure and he didn't know what 'and' was classified as. So, he grabbed his Better English text as his night time literature and set out to discover the secrets hidden within.

And, He was quite proud to inform me that 'and' is a conjunction! And to add a cherry on top, he then told me all about the differences between adverbs and prepositions.

Go figure.

Life will never be the same!