The gift of reading is the single greatest gift a parent can give their child, and my Son needed to read; to move from public school; to private school! I had two weeks to teach him, but he already knew Phonics, so I thought I had a shot at it. We sat down, with the book he had to be able to read; and began when I got home from work. I showed him the words, and asked for the Phonics sounds they contained. He told me those sounds in sequence; and his eyes lit up! He asked if that was all there was to reading? I told him that is the secret, and he was off and reading in about ten minutes.
His reading has never slowed; he had his own account at the local bookstore before he was ten. We allowed him to walk the mile or so there once a week, by himself; and he always came home with a backpack full of books. I suspect a few of Daddy's books may have ended up as trade ins; but it was well worth it, LOL! :)
howdy @smithlabs I didn't know this was possible! I mean to learn to read that fast, I sure didn't learn that fast did you? I'm going thru your posts, very good ones too but my vote is worthless today but I wanted to give you support by commenting. great job brother!
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He had all his phonics sounds down already. At that point; he just needed to know how to use them. Philip has a genus level I.Q. so that helped, I am sure! He still reads everything he can get his hands on. He has always been easy to teach, and retains what he learns!
I was in public school, and they didn't care if I learned or not. BUT, I found a scifi book (Rocket Ship Galileo by Heinlien) in the 5th grade, and couldn't put it down! I started reading war History (On the Bottom, by Cmdr. Edward Ellsburg), and those two dragged me into reading in a massive way! I read several books a week; minimum. I just read "The last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" and it was stunning!
I understand about worthless voting, but I vote anyway.
I always really enjoy your comments! :)
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thank you sir! so you are saying that you never STOPPED reading like crazy? and you really read up on and studied herbal medicine?
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I read for an hour yesterday on Herbals. The subject fascinates me, and I learn new things every day...for the last decade or so. I like to sort the science from the BS, to find what really works! I am running a batch of comfrey tincture that will be done next month. I developed the method myself, and I am making a very Strong tincture
But I read all the time that I can! I consult for a living, so I get called in when the resident engineers have given up. Reading eclectic publications gives me the best chance of being successful. I fixed one machine based on a lab test on a tube type diode carbination problem from 1910. All I had to do was read about it, and remember it at the right time! :)
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amazing..and the stuff you are reading is such quality and can actually help people, herbal medicine can save lives..but I don't know what a batch of comfrey tincture is.
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Comfrey tincture is a pain in the A$$, ROFLOL! A tincture is any herbal preparation that is preserved with alcohol. I zero light they will keep for years (mine never lasts that long). Comfrey is a healing accelerant (a volnerary accelerates healing) by telling the body to divide cells into new cells quickly. It heals deep bruises overnight, and even helps heal broken bones. The latin in the name is knit bone, and it has been used for thousands of years. Sadly, it takes weeks to make a batch of this, and it is a PAIN! On the plus side, it helped my shoulder more than the surgery ever did.
I decided to help people for a living in the 1980's by moving into medical R&D. That worked well until 2008, when the liberals killed all medical R&D with the ACA. Now, even with experience, and a couple of dozen patents, I can no longer work in Medical R&D; unless I go overseas. The ACA shut down a project I was working on to avoid bed sores. By now, half a million people have died, needlessly, for lack of this monitor. We almost made it, if they had waited another six months (we had it working in field testing) we would have finished it!
This haunts me.... :(
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oh my gosh I can see why you're haunted by what should have been. who is the ACA? thanks so much for the education.
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The ACA is obamacare; it killed the medical industry; and sadly a lot of people too! :(
Yes, and a bed sore (pressure ulcer) is the worst way to die (uncontrolled systemic infection) We could have saved at least 5000 people a month with this monitor, SMH! :(
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