From Tracie: If You Teach A Kid How To Write

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

If You Teach A Kid How To Write

If you teach a kid how to write, she will want to write all day - notes, and stories, lists, and things she can't just say.

If you let a kid write, and write, and write, it won't be long before - she notices you like to type and wants to learn some more.

If you teach a kid how to type, she will want to type all day - emails, games, fun, and homework; typing all the way.

If you let a kid type, and type, and type, it won't be long before - she notices you like to blog; that's what your typing is for.

If you teach a kid how to blog, she will want to blog all day - stories, book reviews, lists, and more; so many things she wants to say.

If you let a kid start to blog and blog and blog, very soon you will observe - she wants to type and blog and write; all the words she can preserve.

Katarina Writing Her First Blog Post
Katarina writing her first blog post
As my little story suggested, Katarina has entered the blogging world! 

At this moment, I feel like this blogging and writing thing (which has touched my life so much in the last few years) has really come full circle. 

*shout out to Laura Numeroff for figuring out what will happen If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. All the time spent reading with Katarina when she was little has touched my writing today.  

26 comments:

  1. Oh, I love this! How awesome that she is blogging!

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  2. "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" was and is one of my top three children's books ever, and I picked up on the reference after your first five words ;)

    Any love of words--typed, written, read--is amazing for a young mind (and old, of course.) How great that she's already into it!

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  3. I just love this! And yes, those are lovely books :)

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  4. awesome...

    a few posts ago I posted a picture of my girls sitting at the kitchen table writing and drawing while I was working on Nanowrimo,

    it started to be a saturday morning thing.

    They love writing with daddy

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  5. Fantastic! My mom used to plop me in front of a typewriter, before I could even read. I grew up banging on those keys. I don't know where I'd be without it.

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  6. That is awesome! And I love her blog name too.

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  7. My mom encouraged my reading too. Thank heaven for moms like that! Awesome that you have given your daughter such a wonderful gift.

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  8. Love your 'story' ... one of my favs!
    My girls blog too, will have to introduce them ... so very sweet!

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  9. You must be so incredibly proud of her!!

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  10. Oh, that's fun. I hope that she keeps it up and ends up with a huge portfolio that gets her into college and makes her millions. I am extremely serious.

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  11. Love it! Blog, Katarina, blog! <3

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  12. Great post! I just helped my 13 year old son who has struggled with writing start his own blog. He really is enjoying it, which is what you want... a kid who likes to write!

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  13. Like mother like daughter! She looks so enthused with her work there, lol. Stopping by from SITS. Hope you have a good weekend!

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  14. A NEW Blogger---How great that is!
    I went by to say "HI" and Welcome her to Blogging!

    Thanks for coming by my blog---I LOVE that song!

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  15. Popped in from SITS! I think it's wonderful you're supporting her!

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  16. aah Tracie....I loved how you wrote this b/c the kids and I love the give a mouse a cookie books....Way to go for your dgt jumping into blogs. Mine has been doing it for a bit and loving it. I'll send her the link to your dgt's.

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  17. WOAH.

    My kid has has a blog for years... except I've been the one doing the updating for her :) But she's been asking about it, developing an interest... I'm guessing in no time she'll be over there, blogging away. It's strange, I feel protective of her w/r/t the internet - so many looneys out there, yanno? But I also look forward to her finding (as I have) the good.

    Congrats, Mama.

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  18. Nice! I let my daughter guest post on my blog over the summer once a week and she loved it.

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  19. Oh my goodness... this is SO cool!!!! Pretty sure my granddaughter is right behind her!

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  20. How great is that?! Good for her, and how exciting for you.

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  21. Like mom, like daughter?

    re: the headphones.

    teehee

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  22. How cool. I wish someone else in my family blogged.

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