Necessity is why this mother invents

I found myself almost going back in time today as I thought about Nat and reading. I want him to read more. I have wanted that for ages. Reading was in his IEP year after year. He knows how to read, has known since he was about 7 or 8. He has progressed to a first- or second-grade level, and there he has stayed. I don’t care, I don’t mind, who cares what grade he’s at as long as he’s reading. But I don’t think he is. I do hear from the house staff that Nat does choose to read when he has down time. I don’t really see that here, but I have to admit that we don’t often think of offering it to Nat as something to do. Usually, if I do see him looking at something on the living room coffee table, it is a flyer from his social group. He doesn’t seem all that interested in his childhood books — or the childhood videos, for that matter. When we do ask to read with him, he can read, probably at a first or second grade level. I believe he understands the content when written on that level as well. When Nat was a baby, the first shared activity we had with him was reading. That day, that beautiful, heartstopping day, when he reached out for Corduroy’s Day: A Counting Book, took it from my hands, closed it, and handed it back to me, saying “uh uh uh,” and I knew that some things were going to be okay with this unusual baby of mine. There was something we did like to do together; there was something he could make me u...
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