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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
You are all (let's see, DixieGal, Nekokami, pshwynk, Patricia, basschick, Zelda, RickyMaveety, Dennis, bbusybookworm, Elsi - probably more that I've missed from this thread) a bunch of strange, distorted types - all this reading, reading, reading. Didn't you, like, play when you were little kids?
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What? Reading
isn't play?
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I love it. And in case you're looking for an example on the other end of the spectrum, I'm it. My parents didn't read to me when I was a kid and I only picked it up slowly after seeing my older brother devour books daily for years (how he got attracted to it, I have no idea). I think I learned to read about age 5 or so. But it wasn't until I was about 10 that I read a book for enjoyment without being prodded by a teacher. Unfortunately, it was not a habit I developed further even then and so, forty years later, I still find it hard not to be distracted (various tangential thoughts, what's for dinner, do I smell bacon?) while reading. I own far more books than I'll ever read because although my interest in books is sky high, my ability to plow through them with both pleasure and efficiency is dreadfully poor.
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My SO's older brother is a voracious reader, as is she. They got it from their parents. Older brother's wife isn't a voracious reader, and older brother would come home from work, and plunk himself down in front of the TV till dinner was served. Neither read to the kids. The kids never picked up the habit. Older son would go into a trance when the TV went on...
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Don't ever not read to your kids daily. Don't ever let your kids not read to your grandkids daily. But you already knew that.
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I hope folks here know that. Too many folks view reading as a chore, to be done because you
have to, and never learned to view reading as a pleasure in itself. Reading to your kids when they are too young to do it themselves is one of the most effective ways I know of conveying the idea that it's fun to read.
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Dennis