I think the hardest thing about parenthood is knowing how to correctly teach your child how to do things.  My daughter loves letters, but she won’t deal with numbers too much.  I have used her love of letters and taught her how to spell which wasn’t all that hard.  The biggest problem was getting her to pay attention long enough since she was only three years old.  After that there was a problem that she couldn’t really tell the difference between lower case letters, so we worked with all capital letters.

Now she loves to spell everything, and there is a really great part to it all.  And that is that she actually taught herself how to spell her first word.  I was driving one day and came to a stop sign and she actually spelled out stop.  Then she remembered it wouldn’t stop spelling it. 

Now she is four and wants to know how to spell everything.  She can spell a lot but its hard because she is a little stubborn.  I try to get her to show people how she can spell and she won’t say a word, but she spell your ears off at home.

I still don’t know how to get her to learn other things.  She does know how to count, but she doesn’t like too much to do with numbers.  So I figure I’ll stick with what she likes for know and keep figuring out other ways to open her world to learning.

A hard subject for is religion.  I don’t know where to begin with the subject.  I want her to know about God and all of her obtions.  I don’t go to church myself, but I do read the Bible everyday and pray.  I don’t want her to have the same views about churchs themselves, as I do.

She learned about Santa Clause and the Easter bunny off of television and family, but television is more about marketing today, and don’t show the same religious movies as they used to.

There are times when she can’t figure something out, or get stuck between something.  I always let her try and figure out things for herself.  I want her to be able to count on herself, and not to always look to her mom and myself.  I do lend a hand when she starts getting to frustrated.

The hardest thing to teach her is not to lie to us.  The first time I told her that she was lying to me, she roared like a lion.  I tried to explain to her what I was talking about, and she roared at me  saying that she wasn’t a lion.