From the moment my son Reed joined the world, he was happy, joyful, smart, creative, and incredibly confident. He loved to be read to at bedtime. He loved learning and discovering. He was curious about everything. There was absolutely nothing about him that made me question his intelligence or his ability to learn. It wasn’t until he started school and began struggling with early reading skills that I felt like I was missing something. In preschool, Reed wasn’t retaining his letters and letter sounds. He struggled to memorize sight words. And by kindergarten, the little boy who had loved school began to fear it. He begged not to go. He called me daily feeling “sick” and begging to come home. Worst of all, his beautiful cherub-cheeked smile disappeared. As his mom, I knew something wasn’t right. What I wished I had known then was how important it would be to […]
