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n,

Nice and encouraging post. My Venanzio worries me to death, he is

having a hard time learning how to read. We held him back last year

because when he finished his first time aroung in K his teacher had a

heart to heart talk with us. She felt Venanzio was too immature to

go on into first grade, we did too. He was not interested at all in

school, but this past year toward the end he really started trying,

and was very concerned that some kids in his class were already

reading. He is sounding all his letters and doing some blendings but

still it takes a lot out of him. On the other hand adding and

substracting comes really easy to him. a is totally the

opposite, both of them were born in the summer so they were one of

the youngest in their class, she doesn't have any problems with

reading, writing, spelling, she is really good at them, but she hates

math, go figure. Recently I read a book called " Unicorns are real, A

Right-Brained Approach to Learning " , and Venanzio fits the right-

brained child to a T. He is very artistic and loves to color and

very good at colors schemes.

Well, that's the story with my kids, you are so right everybody is

different.

Thank you n,

mom of a 10 wcf, Venanzio 7 nocf, Pepe 3 nocf

> Our brightest kid was totally and utterly dyslexic--could draw,

could

> copy sentences, but as kid told me indignantly, " Maaaaahhhhhn, I

> cannot copy those stupid little pictures WHILE recalling the answer

> to the question, whereas if some one just ASKED me, I would know

it. "

> Kid went to school a year early, itching to learn, got help and

remedia

> tion for the dyslexia, which went away--almost entirely. Had

straight A's

> and aced the college exams here in the USA, even got a certificate

> of grammar and language usage excellence. Kid is still madly,

loudly

> achieving at 38. Never underestimate a kid who has even ONE real

> skill going! We never did understand quite how kid was ours--felt

kind

> of slow--like maybe the two of us would come close to the " Kid. "

And

> this was the one with cf! Kids are amazing; of course the next kid

up

> could draw like crazy--I mean each kid has something going--which is

> why I myself favor, in the usa, public schools, where such

remediation

> is mandated by law.

> Indignantly,

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