My sister really suffered under phonics. Or shouldn’t it be spelled, ‘phonix?’ ;)
Glad to hear it worked for your kids, though.
I learned to read the old fashioned way and was reading before Kindergarten. Potty trained at 18 months. I know... TMI! LOL!
My sister ended up with a teaching degree, though after my folks forked out mega-bucks for her private-college education (I paid for mine myself!) she decided that she ‘really didn’t LIKE kids’ in the first place and she never taught past her practicums.
She’s also a Socialist Democrat. Make of that what you will.
Are you my MIL’s long lost daughter? That’s how she raised her kids.
She told me when my first son was about 10 months old that I was supposed to be potty training him then. So to try to placate her, I started trying. Sit him on the potty and read to him until he did it, and then praise him when he peed or pooped. It was insanity. I told my husband, “who’s being trained, our kid or me?” What a total waste of time.
Next kid I totally ignored her insinuations that I was a terrible mother. Daughter was potty trained around the 2 year mark. She was too smart for her own good. She asked me why she couldn’t have big girl panties, and I told her it was because she kept wetting her diapers. Turned out that she figured that when she got big girl panties she was ready to wear them. The first day I put them on her, she never had another “accident”. Not one.
Raising kids is a crazy job, but one I loved every minute of, or at least looking back on it, I loved every minute.
I felt like God had given me the biggest job there ever was, even if the “pay” wasn’t much of anything. I still feel that way. What an honor and a privilege to be tasked with raising God’s children. I poured every bit of myself into that job, and I don’t regret it.
No worries about siblings. I have one that’s a bleeding heart liberal. Wouldn’t you know she’s the most unhappy, unhealthy person? Still, I love her, and wish the best for her. I’m sure you feel the same way about your sister/siblings. And this is probably all TMI. Forgiveness, please.