When you have kids are you going to make them read?
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That is hilarious!! LOL!!!DATo wrote:I don't have any kids. They refused to read so I sent them back.
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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I started reading to my kids right from the beginning, during daytime as part of fun play time and at night before bed and so on, they always see me reading and there are books everywhere the eye can reach in our home, so I guess those poor things don't really have a choice about it.
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This is spot-on! My mom was forced to read dense books at a young age and she developed this deep, irrational loathing for most literature until she was in her twenties and my dad reintroduced her to the good stuff. She reads chapter books occasionally now to "make up for lost childhood."SparklesonPages wrote: ↑04 Mar 2018, 01:06 Beginning during my pregnancies and through the toddler ages I read to my kids. What has happened is that they have developed a love for reading on their own. I’m not sure if making your kids read would work.
But when my sister and I were little, she did a lot of gentle encouraging; took us to the library and let us roam, set up mini bookshelves in our rooms, and read to my sister because she preferred that over reading by herself. The last bit was especially a valiant effort for her because my sister loved having the same books read to her over... and over... and over... and over again. Mom probably had Goosebumps: Cry of the Cat memorized. Anywho, my sister and I are both avid readers because of it; that's definitely the way to go, over making your kids read!