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Your main tool is PATIENCE.

[b]My children frustrated me to no end at around that age[/b], when I felt they were just at the cusp of reading but didn't quite memorize and decipher sight words and other words.

And guess what? Nothing I did helped in any visible or measurable way! I read to them as usual, asked they decipher a little bit themselves... but it's only when their brain was ready that something CLICKED, and they were off. For example my daughter read the first Harry Potter at the end of K and The Hobbit in first grade, among other things. A couple of months before reading these hefty things, she was painstakingly going through one liners! My son took a few extra months, but his trajectory had the same kind of bump. Brain development is crazy at that time.

So, yes, patience.
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It's amazing that you were able to contain the obvious pain, frustration, and yes, let's be honest--pure embarrassment their subpar reading skills must have caused you.  My Larlo finished off Kafka and War and Peace by the time he was 3.

You though are a pillar of patience.  Waiting all the way to [i]Kindergarten[/i] so your dear children could read Harry Potter and The Hobbit!  A statue should be erected in your likeness--Our Lady of the Humble Brag, subtitled, "Suck it, PP."[/quote]

PP you were roasting. You made me laugh! 
And no, of course I had no goal in mind, but the kids just spent so long in one place without progressing that I was wondering what was happening - I'm sure a lot of parents can relate. And actually they were preparing for a big jump. So I should have just possessed myself in patience and waited it out, instead of agonizing stupidly.

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The new subtitle on your statue will read, "Props for having a sense of humor."

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