Stride Write

Sometime in the last week, a shoebox lid fell behind the shoe cubbies by our back door. It was worked on, then set down for another project. A four year old child saw the letters and traced them. The desire to write keeps him (and us) awake at night.  His mind is a blender, mixing alphabet soup. Cognitive leaps in children are often accompanied by sleep interruptions at night. Babies and children on the cusp of walking, talking, writing, or reading can’t turn their brains off. During my son’s night wakings I try to decode him. But he can’t answer my questions. He’s decoding the world.