{"id":12351,"date":"2011-07-12T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2011-07-01T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:50:57","slug":"gramma-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/gramma-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Gramma School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m going back to “Gramma” School.\u00a0 Yup, this month we were blessed with a new grandson, so I’m looking forward to spending some time with the little guy and his big sister.\u00a0 Being a grandmother really is one of the best things in life!<\/p>\n

However, I’ve discovered (surprise, surprise) that a few things have changed over the last 30 years, so it seems that one must approach this “parenting-that- is-grand” phase with a life-long learning approach.\u00a0 One aspect that is usually different – though not always – is that grandparents have more time.\u00a0 For me, this rings especially true with reading.\u00a0 As a former teacher, I knew the “read-it-again” rule about re-reading books that kids like, because they learn from the repitition.\u00a0 With my own children, I probably managed 3 or 4 read-it-agains in one sitting.\u00a0 But as a grandparent, I’ve read and re-read certain books 8 or 9 times — or at least so many times that I was certain we had both <\/em>memorized it and that I was going to go insane if I read it again.\u00a0 (I copped out and suggested that maybe Grandpa<\/em> could read it again after bathtime.)<\/p>\n

Oh — you want to know what that book was?\u00a0 Well, it’s Martha Doesn’t Say Sorry<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Samatha Berger.\u00a0 It’s a delightful little picture book with lots of pink coloring, though I could never figure out if Martha was a seal or a weasel or what kind of animal she was, other than a cute one.\u00a0 And why did my precious, perfectly behaved granddaughter want to read that particular book so many times?\u00a0 I’ll never know.\u00a0 I didn’t ask.\u00a0 Oh, yeah, that’s just one of the other little rules I’ve learned in Gramma School.<\/p>\n

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