A Problem I LOVE Having.

I've mentioned before, my 9 year old son has some issues.  He can be quite challenging, particularly with academic-related things.

This summer we started a program called Brain Balance - an academic "achievement center" - where we attend sessions, and do homework, for 12 intensive weeks, in the hopes of improving positive behaviors and academic progress. . .This requires both academic work, and physical workouts.  The theory being a strong body, leads to a strong mind - which I agree with wholeheartedly.


As of this week, we are halfway through the Brain Balance program.  It is our first week of school - 4th grade for my 9 year old.  We are hoping, hoping, hoping that we make enough positive changes to do well this year.  I'm not sure if it is because of Brain Balance, or a combination of factors, but we are seeing at least one big change.

I've also mentioned before that I am a Reader.  I love reading - and that's putting it mildly.  I always have my Kindle with me, because if there is a free 2 minutes in my day, I want to have my books handy. . .

 

 

Where am I going with this?  Well, this avid reader, who has read to her children since in-utero, managed to produce kids who love to be read to - but do not enjoy reading.  I found myself envious of parents whose children walk around hefting Harry Potter or The Lightening Thief.  I was shocked into jealously learning about a friend's daughter who gets up early - just to have extra time to read in the mornings. 

No longer.  I have a new problem in my life, and I LOVE IT:

My 9 year old won't stop reading. . .

That's right.  This child who has repeatedly scored below grade level in reading, who would not finish reading assessments because the three-paragraph reading passage was "too long", who complained when I made him read the recipe directions for brownies we were making - won't stop reading now.

I am in Literacy Heaven.

I can't get my son to do his Brain Balance homework because he won't put his book down.  I have to remind him to eat at meals, because his nose is buried in a book.  He snuck out of bed last night, and downstairs to the sofa, so he could keep reading.

This is a challenge, because we have a lot of "have-to" do things throughout the day, yet I am struggling with making him get it done, because I don't want to ask him to stop reading. 

This is a problem I can live with. . .