Unforseen Side Effects of an Expensive Education

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I had the opportunity to spend 6 years of my life pursuing advanced degrees in English. This is an opportunity for which I am grateful--and for which I am still making monthly payments. Upon the completion of said degrees, I chose to make a career shift. Now I stay home with my children. Despite the inherent challenges, I love it. However, early on I encountered an unexpected problem: while reading books to my young daughter I had to repeatedly suppress the urge to make edits to the texts with a Sharpie. I am grateful for my daughter's love of books, but after being nearly driven to distraction several times by the repeated reading of books I couldn't stand, I started making lists. I noted various authors and titles that I could read over and over without being overcome with the urge to poke out my eyes. Now, with this blog, I endeavor to share these eye-poke-less (in my opinion) books with my other Mom and Dad friends. Hopefully this will help to make story time more enjoyable for everyone. Perhaps it will even save you from finding yourself spinning a web of white lies in order to cover up the fact that you hid that one book you couldn't stand to read even one more time under the couch...

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

That Stripey Cat


By Norene Smiley and Tara Anderson

This book taught my daughter to say the word "persnickety" at age 18 months. That's really why I like it. Aside from that, it does have the repetitive story line that young children enjoy and it teaches about relationships.
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  1. WendyNovember 17, 2010 at 10:01 PM

    As always your daughter has a great vocabulary because her parents have a great and unique vocabulary. I bet you open the dictionary and pick a word of the day to use to broaden your verbiage! Your prodigious!

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