Tonight, my husband sat down to read a book with our 3 year old daughter. She had picked it out and asked him to read it (lately she has shown a lot of interest in books, and words.) She is a pretty bright kid and knows all the letters, sounds, uppercase, lowercase, can count to over 100 etc... Anyways, she has a few words memorized at this point. As they were reading, my husband was getting annoyed that she wasn't paying attention and reciting certain words that she knew as they came up, or that she was asking questions about what was going on in the story instead. He was also expecting her to "just know" what certain words were because he had just read them to her 5 seconds prior. He was being condescending, short tempered, and just was coming off really cold and strict like it was some kind of military boot camp or something. Our daughter was getting frustrated, and squirming around because I think she just wanted to read the story and not learn how to read at that point. She was also tired. What happened in the end, was he sent her to her room crying and told her to go to bed because she "wasn't learning how to read". According to him she isn't going to learn how to read if there are not consequences. I suggested just saying something like "Okay, lets take a break and do something else," and close the book, or "lets just listen to the story and get ready for bed". Am I over reacting by being angry with him? Is this ridiculous to expect from a 3 year old? How can we approach this better? She is our oldest, so we are quite new to this. Sorry about spelling and grammar, will edit later.Edit 1: She just turned 3.5 if that helps at all. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2jys2Wm
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