Seems we’ve given our daughter many elusive gifts - visual thinking, extreme sensitivity, impatience, empathy, the ability to day-dream, and perceptiveness. She’s amazingly smart, superbly verbal, independently creative, and is currently learning how to read in her own special way. She shares all the above with Leanardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Agatha Christie.
I have entered another stage in the labor of parenting that was invisible to me before now. How can I help my daughter see the hidden words on the page so that she can grab onto the knowledge, poetry and ideas held inside the written word?
My summer project is to tutor my own child towards reading. We are doing this daily while in Sicily - surrounded by 100 degree days, beach-goers, the best peaches in the world, sweet cherries, fresh fish, and a culture bursting with distraction and fascinating tangents.
I’ve decided to include my musings here on VisibleLabor.com because I see that my own hormonal swings, artistic yearnings, and mothering duties braid together a demonstration of the concepts we seek to explore.
Thank you for reading.
Nita
Porto Empedocle, Italy
July 2010
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