{"id":275,"date":"2009-07-14T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T11:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=275"},"modified":"2009-07-14T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T11:25:42","slug":"reading-astrosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Reading: Astrosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We bought (Antonia chose, I paid for) an Astrosaurs book in the airport bookshop on our way home.\u00a0 I am not at all sure this counts as homeschooling, though I do think its good for children&#8217;s reading skills to read large quantities of enjoyable trash just for fun.\u00a0 That being said, I wish two things.<\/p>\n<p>1. That the library would stock trash books instead of just literary masterpieces, because I don&#8217;t mind us buying the good stuff, whereas I would rather the trash didn&#8217;t accumulate in the house.<\/p>\n<p>2a) That if I must buy trash, the publishers would ensure that it&#8217;s at least well enough put together that it doesn&#8217;t fall apart before the dear child has finished reading;<\/p>\n<p>2b) That if it must fall apart the publishers would make an effort to ensure that a page number appears on every single page and not just a selected few, for the convenience of parents who have to put the d**n pages back in order again.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought (Antonia chose, I paid for) an Astrosaurs book in the airport bookshop on our way home.\u00a0 I am not at all sure this counts as homeschooling, though I do think its good for children&#8217;s reading skills to read large quantities of enjoyable trash just for fun.\u00a0 That being said, I wish two things. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading: Astrosaurs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}