to refuse to listen to DS read his school book

[Twiglett]

when he brought home Spongebob Squarepants joke books

having to explain crap jokes is not my idea of reading with a child ... it's more like a circle of hell

I don't want to do it

he has had it for 2 weeks now because we haven't done it

Get him to read it to DD. I have found this kills two Bedtime Reading birds with one vaguely educational stone.

What's Spongebob's favourite kind of knot?
The square knot

lie in his contact book.

"Mummy" "these aren't funny jokes!"

oh yes indeedy

HOw does Mr Krabb start every bedtime story?

Once upon a dime

"Can we just pretend we did it because these jokes aren't funny"

Oh yes the boy joins me in hell

gawd but they are crap

YANBU - I would refuse too it's hardly The Water Babies is it?

I lied last Monday - first time ever - and for the first time ever the teacher wrote "H was able to discuss the story she had read with me" since she wouldn' have hd the faintest idea what the story was I think we were being outed.

maybe your dd is just a natural when it comes to the blag

that should say 'discuss, with me, the story' otherwise it makes no sense does it?does it now?

But its got to be better than Biff and Chip........isn't it?

Wisteria have you read the Water Babies recently - dd and I have been doing so on and off for months (her choice btw), dry doesnlt come into it . Give me Spongebob ! Pretend to have read it , noone will know !

"Ds1 was very tired tonight, so we didn't do his reading"

(Mummy got engrossed on the playstation with ds1 and decided that reading a very dull book 1/2 an hour after he should have been in bed was Not The Way Forward)

Just write in his reading record book that it's a peice of crap that you and your son don't want to read. Blimey! Sponge Bob Square Pants.

lol last 2 posts!

and does anyone here know how on earth Biff can be a girls name????

Is this a book he chose to bring home, or one that was given by the teacher?

Can you accidentally set fire to it to save any other parent this torment?

I am, probably unfortunately, rather too honest for this parenting lark

I wrote something along the lines of "neither DS nor I can stand to read this book. The jokes are just unfunny. We read Tintin instead"

(this is the teacher who complained that DS was too sarcastic too ... ooops)

I'm proud of you, Twig