Perhaps, as every child Maria is fond of reading (better, listening to
Mum’s/Dad’s reading J) before
sleeping. And together, we’ve already gone through many many books for children. Sometimes I’m trying to stimulate the discussion on what we’ve read:
on the characters, on their actions/emotions/thoughts, on the environment, on
the plot etc. Sometimes, I’m keeping quiet and Maria starts to discuss various issues and asks
multiple questions. These thoughts and impressions seem really valuable to me
to better understand my child. Once we’ve been reading about a
small grasshopper, who lost his parents. Maria said: “Cmon! The parents should
have given him a mobile…” This was a kind of explanation to me why she wasn’t
willing to stay on her own during her gymnastics classes - she didn’t feel
safe if she couldn’t reach her parents whenever she needed to.
Besides, I somehow wanted to structure our reading that we keep a record
of what we’ve read. For Maria the reader’s DIARY, which we decided to start,
would be also a thing worth to look through once in a while and to recall what
she’d read.
We decided to make it like a scrapbook, putting there stickers with
characters, drawing sceneries described in the fairy tales, etc. We put there
also the tickets from the events such as theatre performance or ballet we attended. I write
down in this notebook the comments Maria makes, the questions she asks. Basically, one can
do there whatever she wants, depends on the fantasy limits.
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