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Originally Posted by issybird
I blame parents for the decline in reading. If kids read with their parents when they were little, and saw their parents reading for pleasure as they got older, it wouldn’t be an issue. ?
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While I agree with the rest of your post, I don't really think it's the parents either. It's internet/social media/computer games these days and it was TV in the case of previous generations. I know several people whose parents were readers and read with their children, but who never read for pleasure themselves now that they're adults. OTOH my parents were not readers, but at least they bought books for our home, so I had plenty of reading material to devour since I was very little. I was a compulsive reader as a child and as a teenager, without anyone trying to instruct me what or how to read. And I was not very interested in TV. Some of the other children I knew liked to read too, some didn't. Some started to read for pleasure as teenagers. Some never did. Of course there were far fewer other entertainments then than there are today. So many people probably read just from boredom.