Keeping Characters straight
Me: 5064
Ds: 765
Dd: 864
Dialogue is something of a challenge when you are six. I'm very proud of her, I am teaching her dialogue and how to "research" (which in her case is ask mommy) it and try to have your dialogue sound like real people speaking, minus all the "ums" etc. In dialogue we don't say the other person's name over and over, but the trick to figuring out who is saying what is via action. Combining the two can be tricky, but just as people don't say "hi how are you NAME. NAME, what would you like to do, NAME?" they also don't bounce around endlessly. So no talking heads, no running around without talking to one another--this stuff can be confusing!
They are both doing well. More on that later.