However, in all honesty, I felt like I was already a pretty good reader! In 4th grade, I was doing spelling bees and passing all my spelling and reading tests, so I was like, “Why me?” More importantly, why is this ruining my summer! I was very unhappy, until my mother told me. You see, my older brother couldn't understand things as well as me, so my mother thought that if he and I took the program together, he would be more interested in learning. So, in an effort to help my older brother, I agreed to take the program (as if I had a choice.) Did I forget to mention that "Hooked on Phonics" was aimed at an age group younger than me? I think this is the real reason why I was so reluctant to do this program. Not only is my summer over, but now I'm doing a reading program for an age group younger than me! I'm sure if I had known what it was like to be insulted, I would have felt that way! Since my parents both worked full time during the summer, they weren't there to help us, so of course we had to find a tutor! The tutor wasn't so bad; she actually filmed a very boring and quite boring program,