Chicken tikka masala
Samuel’s options for school lunch:
It’s years away, but … should he ever wish to enroll in the high school’s International Baccalaureate program, he’ll have to start choosing the chicken tikka masala. (Surely, its presence on the menu is a sorting device.)
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His teacher has given him a daily homework assignment: twenty minutes’ reading.
We let him choose what to read the first day. During the allotted time, he rapidly flipped through the pages of book after randomly chosen book.
Since then, I’ve been forcing him to read the Babar series. In order. After twenty minutes, he puts his bookmark in the omnibus and goes off to play, and we all sigh with relief.
Do you like Babar, I ask him.
No, he says.
Well, stick with it.
He usually reads out loud. Karin, who wasn’t raised on Babar, casts funny glances whenever she hears references to cannibals (for instance).
I give Samuel his Sundays off.
- chicken tikka masala or
- hot dog
It’s years away, but … should he ever wish to enroll in the high school’s International Baccalaureate program, he’ll have to start choosing the chicken tikka masala. (Surely, its presence on the menu is a sorting device.)
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
His teacher has given him a daily homework assignment: twenty minutes’ reading.
We let him choose what to read the first day. During the allotted time, he rapidly flipped through the pages of book after randomly chosen book.
Since then, I’ve been forcing him to read the Babar series. In order. After twenty minutes, he puts his bookmark in the omnibus and goes off to play, and we all sigh with relief.
Do you like Babar, I ask him.
No, he says.
Well, stick with it.
He usually reads out loud. Karin, who wasn’t raised on Babar, casts funny glances whenever she hears references to cannibals (for instance).
I give Samuel his Sundays off.