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Helping 4 Year Old with Reading

My four year old is working on some reading projects in her junior kindergarten class. She gets extremely defensive if you try to help her at all and then just either wants to shut the book altogether or stomps off. I think I am being patient and using a gentle voice when I work with her but I don't know what else to do. I work as a writing instructor at the university level, so teaching isn't a completely new activity for me (granted four year olds and 20 year olds are very different) Anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

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Hard to Even Ask This, Anyone Regret Their Child's Name Decision?

my husband really wanted a junior. I did express my worry but did not totally object. Now it is just annoying to have to call my husband and him the same name. I hate even bringing this up and it is not like anything can be done. I will not call my son a nickname and getting used to calling my husband the shortened version of his name after I have been calling him by his full name for 20 years is truly going to be difficult, so I am annoyed and nothing I can do about it. Anyone ever have regret over name decision?