I know most parents brag about their kids. Its only natural right? Sometimes the bragging can be an over the top “my kid is better than your kid” type, sometimes it can be the “proud parent” type, and sometimes it can just simply be “sheer amazement”.
Nariah is my first child. Things as simple as when they say “excuse me” or tell their first joke feels like a big deal because it’s your first child. Now there comes a point where you get those “come on now, is this for real?” moments and that’s what this is, at least for me and my wife it is. We’ve just had a parent teacher conference with Nariah’s kindergarten teacher. She’s reading exceptionally well and is pretty good at writing. Although the teacher mentioned Nariah would write the bare minimum when it came to sentences because she wants to be finished quickly and move on. If the exercise was for the students to write what they did this past weekend, Nariah would write something like “I went home. I had fun.” and leave it at that. Nothing along the lines of variance. The teacher was trying to get Nariah to get more creative with her sentences. Now this conference happened 3 days before this “sheer amazement” moment.
We’re visiting my grandparents in NC, and everyone is kind of doing their own thing. Nariah asks her granddad for some paper and something to write with. Over the course of the next few minutes I walk by and see her kneeling on the floor writing and drawing intently. “What are you doing baby?”
“I’m writing a story and illustrating it too! I’m going to read it to you guys”
“Oh ok, cool!”
Now at this point my “Oh ok” was really expecting a simple “See spot… See spot run” type story. Oh, was I ever wrong. With Nariah’s permission she has given me the rights to share her work. This is a book she wrote all by herself with out any help. She did a pretty good job phonetically spelling a lot of words. Aside from her needing to “slow down” a little and finish out the words we know she knows already, this was awesome in my opinion. The concept of this story alone is a far cry from the 3 word sentences we had just heard about. I’ve added captions showing what she says on each page underneath each picture from when she read it to us for the first time. Click on the first picture to open up the gallery.
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- The Doctor and the Artist By Nariah Illustrated by Nariah
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- One day an artist was painting and suddenly someone appeared in the distance.
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- It was a doctor. The doctor was trying to convince the artist to a doctor appointment.
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- Then the artist refused to say yes. “no” “ok then”
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- Then they keeps on begging until she finally agreed. “ok” “yes”
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- Finally they took her to the hospital. (The name of the hospital is “The hospital that helps”
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- And when she went into the hospital, she saw a whole bunch of people were there. (Nariah says she was rushing, and forgot to write the word “saw” lol. Also she drew a person in the hospital bed on the left, but when she stapled this together, it covered the person’s head.)
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- Then she lied down in a cart.
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- Then they gave her some medicine.
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- Then she was all better.
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- The end (with this one Nariah joked and said the “b” was on purpose to pronounce it with a little bit of flair)
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