“As Thomas walked home, he turned to my husband and told him: ‘Don’t ever underestimate the power of my brain.’” One mom's intimate story of parenting a child with dyslexia through the pandemic.
April 21, 2023 GMTHeather Hollingsworth helps her son Thomas, age 9, work on reading skills after school Thursday, April 20, 2023, at their home in Mission, Kan. Heather Hollingsworth helps her son Thomas, age 9, work on reading skills after school Thursday, April 20, 2023, at their home in Mission, Kan. It is our third tour through the “Harry Potter” series, and tonight is like so many others. I pause and ask him to read a few pages of the Dr.
And like so many times, he refuses. Finally he fumbles through a couple pages, over passages like “Pup Cup. Pup in Cup,” with copious praise. Then he is done. It all seemed very normal that night last fall. But this was the beginning of third grade, and the Seuss book is sold as “The Simplest Seuss for Youngest Use.”
Thomas has a learning disability, ADHD and epilepsy. And this is hard — harder than I thought possible.
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