My esteemed wife has a Ph.D., never mind in what, and she has recently resumed teaching college students, never mind where. I am proud of her.

My daughter is reading whatever she can. I've overheard a lot in the past several days. Now she's requested, and received, a reader at preschool. It's not yet been two months since her fourth birthday. I have a laminated sheet with common words on it that I use sometimes for communication. I loaned it to her to read. I am proud of her.

Writing backward, as all kids do at the start, and phonetically, she gave her mom a note today:


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