Why reading aloud is sometimes a pain - for parents
There is no topic for pedagogues and children as much as for reading aloud: Everyone thinks it's great. Nobody asks the parents, and that may be better.
Sure, there are these magical moments in which readers and children together are looking forward to the story. But much more magical is the moment when, without turning your gaze from the television, you can say to the other parent: "Oh, today it's your turn." We're here, where Conni finds the exchange student really nice. "
The problem is that reading aloud traditionally takes place in the evening. This conflicts with the fact that in the evening I am traditionally tired and greedy after work. That's bad because the audience feels when you're not there. The audience does not want to hear a CD either, it wants you and your father's baritone broken at the end of the day.
What is the best bridging strategy?
This can only be endured with bridging strategies of which I have tested some over the years. Because of a lack of life experience, children are immediately easily reassured by misinformation: we are almost there, the syringe does not hurt, mom and dad stay together forever, etc. From the same innocence they would never get the idea that their father during reading aloud in the cover of the book with your smartphone. However, this works only for relatively light reading texts and rather undemanding smartphone activities. So: "Candy Crush" to PixiBook goes well, "Need for Speed" to Tolkien not.
As soon as you are caught sight of, children change seamlessly from innocent to extremely suspicious, and from then on, every wrong break and every lowering of sentence melody becomes the one with the stern question, "Dad, are you playing?" acknowledged. All right.
Another strategy is to agree on a performance goal beforehand and then deliberately undermine this agreement: It is said that one reads a chapter, and during the lecture one cuts down the ten-page text section by creative omissions on six or seven pages down.
But it gets really exhausting if, for example, in the Bullerbü story with the treasure chest full of teeth you omit the passage with the maid's bit, because you think, ha, I save half the page, and then suddenly this denture suddenly becomes total important, and sweaty you have to inconspicuously re-weave it in unbroken paternal good night voice. Groan!
Dive into the golden darkness
A third strategy comes more from the field of esoterics, keyword "Out-of-body perception". With a lot of experience, you can create a mix of tiredness, inner emptiness, relatively high room temperature and possibly after-hours beer, which allows you to read entire paragraphs without even noticing their contents. Suddenly you can think about other things while reading aloud and you are not forced to follow the ever-slightly sticky life wisdom of the bear Pu and his friends. You are free, free, free, and the next step is to realize, yes, you can even close your eyes, everything goes by itself, suddenly comes a great heaviness and relief at the same time, a golden darkness surrounds you, and from a distance one hears his own voice whispering, and then the urgent cries of the children: "Daddy, what are you talking about, why should Tiger change a vacuum cleaner bag, are you just asleep, are you slobbering?" As I said, the right mixture is difficult to produce.
Till Raether In this way, I would like to ask the esteemed "Liliane Susewind" author Tanya Stewner to give herself some time with the next volume, he urgently needs a break.
So the best strategy is to get the kids back from the agony. The children need clear structures, they literally do not like deviations from the given text. I have therefore become accustomed to deviating every one and a half to two pages extra from the text of the lecture and to seamlessly incorporate, with an unctuous narrative voice, those words of the children who annoyed me the most during the day. So it may be that Connis parents, while she is in the music school, "sexen" quickly a round, or that Pu, instead of thinking about "big things", "krassomatisch gedisst" and so on. The children scream in outrage, drumming furiously on the mattresses with their little feet, and daddy is awake again and wins half a minute for three moves "Candy Crush".
