My children read the newspaper every day. Well, they read the comics every day. And the boys always read the Sports page. My daughter has recently started reading more news articles; she shocked me the other day when she came to me and said, "Mom, listen to this--I just don't get it. It says this guy will go to jail instead of prison. Aren't jail and prison the same thing?" Ugh. I kind of wished she'd just stuck with the comics.
As frivolous as some people might think comics are, I regularly find them thought provoking and a good litmus of a person's education. After all, there are many that cannot be understood, let alone considered funny, if a person doesn't have a broad-based education in Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic.
Today's "Hagar the Horrible" proved to be such a litmus--and a little bit of a validating "Attamom!" As I sat down for breakfast my daughter told me I had to read "Hagar." I did, and she smiled at me and said, "Haiku!" Having just taught her Haiku a couple of months ago, I love that she remembered and made the connection. Yay!
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