I was slow learning to read; my Mother threatened me with stopping my subscription to the
Eagle comic which either she or my sisters used to read to me.
Suffice it to say, I was reading within weeks of that.
Then the problem came one of how to stop me reading. Eventually a TV appeared in the house in a vain attempt to slow down my reading. Of course, we were only allowed to watch BBC1 and BBC2; none of that commercial ITV nonsense for our house!