I remember well those mornings we spent reading from the scriptures as a family. We would all take turns ready 5 verses at a time. On one particular day I read "fatigue," pronouncing it fat-i-gue just like it's spelled. Well that prompted all sorts of teasing and it's become a family joke.
So imagine my delight as now my oldest is reading from the scriptures and comes across "blasphemy." It was absolutely uneventful. He didn't so much as bat an eye and rattled it off, perfect pronunciation. Brent and I looked at each other and then I asked Hudson to spell it. We're still working on that, but man-this kid is a reader!
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Hudson is smart but I also honestly believe that if we read the scriptures with our kids when they are learning to read they are blessed with the spirit to read much, much better and faster than they would otherwise. I've seen that in my own kids. They can read and pronounce things unbelievably fast and accurately and they can read far, far above their age level. That can be discouraging later when the school tells them they have to read first grade level books when they are capable of reading high school level and above but an amazing blessing because it expands their ability to read and learn about anything they want to because they can and do read everything they can get their hands on and devour the information instead of struggling through pronunciation and grammar.
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