  Bear has orientation for middle school today. Sharky's coming home early so we can all go. Bear is so excited about it. He's still reading book number 2 - out of the four he was supposed to read before school started. Lazy boy. He read "Prince and the Pauper" and now he's reading "Black Beauty". I've bugged him all summer about reading and he won't do it. Geeze, how can you force a kid to read? Give him a book and lock him in a room? Yeah, I can imagine it - he'd cry, throw a tantrum, and then go to sleep - never even opening the book. *sigh* The kid has a very high iq but hates to read. My Gods, MY SON hates to read. My child! I just don't get it... 
