Another Month Goes By

I feel that my worst concerns about pushing reading too hard have come true.  I don't think he likes reading.  I haven't seen him spontaneously read a book for months.  I know he can read all the words in Endless Reader, and I know when I'm reading to him if I point to a word he will read it, but when he does look at books I think he is just looking at the pictures.  I miss the pride he had when he would read "Just a Little Sick".

I am just trying to back off and let him rediscover it, but I'm not sure if I should come at him laterally with different things to reengage him or just wait for it to return spontaneously? I'll probably just make it worse.

On a positive note, he is really good at rhyming words now, and we often play "name a word that rhymes with ...."  Today I was even able to get him to play that with the added condition of the word starting with a certain letter.

In other avenues of life, I have made a new little calculator website for predicting impending mortality based on some some papers.  We'll see how it goes and what to do next.  I am happy that I learned the basics of flask with it and the next step will be doing something more dynamic.  Maybe a log in members only kind of deal.

In work I had a man younger than me die of acute liver failure and now I want a redo against death.  Maybe I should more strongly consider CC because the opportunities to make a big difference in hospital medicine seem few lately.

I also finished reading the Three Body Problem series (all three novels) by Cixin Liu.  Very good and each sequel was not a let down unlike some other SF series I've read lately.