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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
I've never met a parent who told their kid to not read, unless it was an inappropriate time.
I've met many parents who failed to encourage a kid to read, but none that tried to prevent it.
Seems like a caricature of the more general suppression of curiosity. Good easy way to evoke anger among some folks.
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My parents did, they kind of had to I think. For a while it was: no reading in the car, no reading at school, no reading at bedtime, no reading in restaurants, no reading on vacation etc.
Did save a lot of money though, I'm glad they did it now even if it annoyed me so much back then. I was good for 3 novels a day, I'd read history textbooks, huge war books when I was in elementary school.
Now I can't be bothered much past a good sci-fi novel, even though I'm a university student.
