Reading lessons include bribery

In the list of tricks to help Ottawacker Jr. learn to read, this has perhaps been the best.

An Air Canada itinerary for an upcoming trip to his godparents in Victoria, B.C. and a stoic refusal to tell him what it was until he had managed to decipher it himself.

Took him three minutes. I have a horrible feeling the bedtime story-song-cuddle nexus might be coming to an end. Six-year-olds grow up way too quickly.