Reading and Grobar

I don't know if you remember that kid I wrote about a while ago - the one who started reading the book by himself after I read some to him. He hated reading, primarily (I thought) because he couldn't read all that well. Well, he started reading some to himself after I stopped reading to him and then he came to me a few weeks ago and told me that HE FINISHED THE ENTIRE BOOK! It was pretty cool :) So why am I mentioning this now? Well, we went out for Shabbos dinner to another family here in Melbourne. The husband is a kollel Rabbi who is starting a new small shul and the wife is a teacher - the kid's teacher. She mentioned that she had noticed that his reading had gotten a lot better. So it wasn't just my imagination and it was a big enough effect for his teacher to notice. In fact, she liked the effect enough that she bought a copy for her own son :)

Pretty cool, no?

Happiness!

Joseph