One of the things I love best about homeschooling is that if the child loses interest in something you can just put it on the shelf and (maybe) come back to it at a later time.  In public school, they just have to plug along and either get it or don't and possibly end up hating it.

Such has been the case with reading for us.  I started with letter games, singing the alphabet, puzzles, etc...very laid back.  When I decided he was ready for a little more formal program, I bought the Fun Tales set of 26 readers from Sonlight Curriculum.  This was just too much of a jump from letters to reading, so I stopped and tried a few lessons from Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading.  This was good, but just more formal than I wanted.  I finally found Progressive Phonics, which was just perfect for us through the three letter short vowel words.  We started the next book, which was still short vowel sounds, but added two letter beginning blends.  half-way through this one, he got bored and wanted to go back to Fun Tales.  But he didn't just want to read Fun Tales, he wanted to read other easy readers from the library.  He might even go a week or two without reading anything other than just words he would find in real life.

He started reading around September and just finished the last Fun Tales reader!

My point is that he has learned to read at his own pace, but if I had pushed it at any time and with a curriculum or reader series he wasn't interested in, would he hate the idea of reading now?  If this happens when he does start formal Kindergarten in the fall, then I see my job as a parent to help him find other ways of learning the same thing.