Reading with My Daughter

On the education of the young, translated…

That day, I’d read along with husband to my daughter, as my husband stated, “………then, the princess and the prince lived happily ever after!”, but, our three-year-old’s sense of self started acting up, she’d said angrily, “He’s my prince!  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I’m angry now!”, then, she ran off, angrily.

Actually, after just two minutes, she’d immediately, become happy, and ran into the shower, for her game of water fight in the bath again.  As I contemplated on how I can help alter her bad temper, three books surfaced into my mind, that I can, teach something to her on.

Says Who Princesses are Destined to be Wed

Babette Cole’s “Naughty Princess” has a strong sense of herself, the challenges she’d given to the princes who came for her hand, were nearly impossible, and, as those princes managed to complete her demands, she’d kissed them all, and, turned them all into frogs, this tipped over the fairytales completely.

I wanted my child to know, that the princesses in the world aren’t limited to just one form, she could choose to find that special someone, to share her life with and she can also, choose to live as a single and happily.

This is Mine, It’s Also Yours

The Big Furry Bear believed that everything inside the forest was his own, and, he’d taken everything barbarously, and, all of his friends had, stayed away from him.  Until he’d found out, how lonely the forest became, after everything living in it had been, taken away, then, he became, willing to share, and gained his friendships back again.  “Whose is This”, by Yu-Ching Huang, from the title, it’d made the child think, before her younger brother was born, all the toys belonged to my daughter solely, and now, she must, learn to share, naturally, I’d had to, teach her, step, by step, after all, children at this age, if asked to choose toys or siblings, toys would win out!

Don’t Get Angered for No Reasons at All

Prince Elephant liked to get angry, and, his father, King Elephant is stubborn too, and, because they got angry at one another, their trip to the amusement part couldn’t make, and, the very next day, the two of them compromised, and finally, they’d gotten to enjoy that father-son quality time spent.  Turns out, getting angry taxes out the energies and time so, so totally not worth it!  Ma Lai’s “Angry Prince” touched that deep part of my heart, because we got angry at one another, we both lose something precious.  My daughter had once gotten angry during the time of “Grandma Fruit”, her favorite television show, and ended up, missing an entire episode; I’d once gotten angered at her, and sacrificed the laughter I should’ve had, being with her.

not my photograph still…

Gladly, we’d still have the time, to learn to see the reasoning of things, to allow ourselves to calm back down, that we’d not allow our getting angry at one another to cause irreparable damages.  When you bump into problems in childrearing, choosing the books for the children, creating and getting involved in conversations, with the models in the books, your children can learn a lot, and the lessons would be, deeply, etched into their minds.

So, this, is relating what you read to your kids to real life, this is also why it’s so very important, to read with your children, and, that, is why this parent is making the time to read to her daughter, no matter how busy her workday had been.

not my picture here…