Who doesn’t wish that progress would be a one-way street? That, once one’s child “gets” something—starts talking, asks for a break, reads a word—this is it, learning of just about everything else will follow, and there will never be another need to reteach, and new skill and new skill will follow new skill?
Charlie’s learning of anything has generally followed such a simple pattern. Often he gets some new skill—saying a new word, tapping the ball off the tee in the days when he did the Challenger league—and it then seems as if, try as he might (and he does), he …read more