🚀 go-pugleaf

"Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@foulspambegone.com.au> wrote in message
news:ehrebeniuk-6C2BA1.23020124042005@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> DS is 4y 2mo now.  We've known for a long time that he's bright, that he's
> good with language, and so on.  But it is still a bit confronting to see
your
> preschooler *reading*, when you know that you and your DH were not doing
it at
> that age!  Not every word he sees, no; but enough for us to know that he's
> reading words, not reciting from memory or working it out from context.
>
> Today at the supermarket, we decided to indulge, and picked out packets of
> chips for ourselves.  Thought DS had grabbed some Cheezels.  At the car,
he
> read "Holes".  Sure enough, they were Cheezel Holes, but DS is not
familiar
> with the related concept of Donut Holes, the picture wasn't really
> enlightening, and we can't recall reading any stories with "holes" in them
> recently.

Heh, clever kid :)


>
> DS also likes to put pen to paper and produce marks like running-writing.
We
> mere parents can't read it, of course, because DS is writing (he tells us)
in
> *German*.  He reads it back to us in gibberish.  We aren't
German-speakers,
> though DS has probably heard me mention this as one of Grandpa's
languages.
> AFAIK there are no German-speakers at daycare.

very cute!