I’ve signed up for several weekly e-newsletters that tell me what my child should be doing as a five-year-old. Mostly they tell me stuff I have already figured out on my own. Here are a few things I’ve learned about five-year-olds, followed by my comments.
Reading
Kids can start to read any time between the ages of [...]

Monsters eat everything.
Everything is not safe from a monster.
Monsters do not have an enemy.
They are the worst enemy on the planet.
Even the rock monster is the biggest monster on the planet.
My son dictated those lines to me last week. In case you can’t tell, he is obsessed with monsters. Not the hide-under-the-bed, go-bump-in-the-night kind of [...]