The Reluctant Reader, Pt. 3

By now Caleb is doing fairly well with his reading. I'm in the room with him reading my newspaper and the timer is on for 15 minutes. (Be sure to read The Reluctant Reader posts pt. 1 and pt. 2) But remember, this is a boy who doesn't want to read, thinks it's a waste of time, and is convinced it's not cool. His friends don't want to read either.

But within a month, we're back to the whining, the excuses, the stalling around. "Grandma, I can't read now. I gotta take out the trash. Then I hafta do my laundry." What some kids will do to get out of reading! Now what am I going to do?

Crossing the Midline and Cross Crawling to the Rescue

I'm sure if you know me the answer will come as no surprise. Of course . . . we'll do some Brain Games. He learned a few Brain Game activities when he was just a tyke. But now, you guessed it: "Grandma, I can't do Brain Games. It's for little kids. I'm grown up!" I don't argue that 14-years-old isn't my definition of grown up. I suggest that it will help and I promise not to tell his friends he's doing Brain Games. But he doesn't care whether it will help or not since he doesn't want to read. How to get him to do Brain Games?