I am teaching my youngest grandaughter.

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Last year, when Sofia was scarcely in school (scarcely out of daycare as she is only 5), the teacher told my daughter that she didn´t meet the academic requirements. OMG!!! The girl is very bright as I can see and she grasps everything easily. So I started to ask her what she was being taught and told her to show me. She is learning to read and write a few words. She already knew how to write her name so I told her to do it. Sofia wrote her name backwards, just as my own daughter (her mother) used to do. Both of them are left handed and so am I so I decided that I would teach her to read and write . I still remember the problems I had at school on those days when being lefthabd was a "bad habit". She is doing fine but I am worn out. I´m running out of stickers and she draws beautiful so she wants to make a drawing of every new word we learn. I do hope I can finish her teaching soon. I can see that now that she got the idea she is going much faster. I have been a university professor but I can tell you that teaching a child to read is a harder job.