I took the boys to the library this morning. We walked around for a while trying to find some new books the boys would want to read. The boys have a habit of finding a book they like and getting it again and again.
Sam came back with a book he was going to read by himself and then stopped in the middle of the aisle. I asked him what was wrong and he said he wanted to make sure the book had some pictures. It did, so he went to sit down to start reading while Evan kept looking.
I came back to Sam and tried to explain to him that as he got older, his books would start to have less and less pictures. I said that pretty soon he’d start imagining what the story would look like in his head. I tried to give him an example and he stopped me right there.
He turned around and looked at me with the ‘Dad, I’m not stupid look’ and said, “Dad I know. We’re learning visualizing a story in school right now.”
It appears I got schooled by my 6y old today.