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Books in home as important as parents’ education in determining children’s education level
Science Daily ^ | May 21, 2010 | University of Nevada, Reno

Posted on 03/07/2023 5:04:19 PM PST by grundle

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To: outofsalt

Charlotte’s Web
Aesop’s Fables
Little Women
Mr Popper’s Penguins
Heidi
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Ralph S Mouse
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Hobbit
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Give a Mouse a Cookie (complete series of books there)
Rush Revere books
All of a Kind Family
A Wrinkle in Time

My daughter loved Sweet Valley Twins. I did not, but I sure bought every single one of them. Son loved coffee table books about weapons, history, airplanes, etc. Only series he would read was R L Stine’s Goosebumps. I am on restriction right now as my grandchildren have run out of room for books, but I’ve got a stockpile for each of them sitting at my house.


41 posted on 03/08/2023 12:50:36 AM PST by mom aka the evil dictator
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To: Redcitizen

My kids are just starting their own families and I thought your original post was a good beginning for presents my future grandkids. Thanks to all who replied!


42 posted on 03/08/2023 3:35:45 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: grundle

Let me guess. The smug NPR listeners who LOVE abortion will brag about how many Noam Chomsky books they have while saying books are racist because “people of color” don’t have easy access to books.


43 posted on 03/08/2023 4:27:53 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: 9YearLurker

True. But logic works. A single negro baby momma that can barely speak English who lives in the ghetto with three children isn’t going to have well educated children. Compare that to a college educated mother and father who actually cares about education and you have an entirely different situation. Groomer teachers certainly don’t help. Most are low IQ’d, are barely educated and literate. Parents make all the difference.


44 posted on 03/08/2023 6:13:56 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

Research has actually seemed to show that that correlation is minor compared to other factors.


45 posted on 03/08/2023 6:47:05 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Stuff it ahole. I wasn’t writing about research. Learn to eff’n read and shut your pie hole.


46 posted on 03/08/2023 6:50:06 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: grundle
When I am invited into somebody's home and notice they have a lot of books around, I love to bring that into the conversation. Often, the owner will proudly take me to their library and invite me to peruse the titles. I'm using the term "library" loosely here as I consider any room with a few bookshelves a library.

The types of books they shelve tells me a lot about that person, their education level, their interests, even their politics to some extent.

I think having books around the house does foster lifetime reading habits in children and greatly improves their overall level of education.

It's also important to let children gravitate to what they enjoy reading rather than force certain reading on them. Let them read whatever they want. The more they read, the more they will seek out.

47 posted on 03/08/2023 7:10:33 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,942,927 Truth | 87,539,833 Twitter)
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To: ConservativeMind

“we had an encyclopedia set and got several magazines every month.

I read them.”

Me too. We could not afford the high grade World Book but, given my parents saw how I took care of books, they got the least quality ones. I would sometimes grab a letter, sit down, and read it.


48 posted on 03/08/2023 7:16:30 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

So very Christian of you—as I see you wear your Christianity on your FR home page.


49 posted on 03/08/2023 7:17:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: dr_lew2
I did the same things as a small child. I would randomly pick books off the shelves and leaf through them, not able to comprehend the text but fascinated with the pictures and illustrations.

I remember thumbing through an entire set of encyclopedias from A-Z, fascinated with the pictures of bugs, animals, machines, etc. Eventually I began to understand the words that went with the pictures.

By fourth grade, I was reading at a high school level. By that time, I was reading the dime store novels my parents kept around. That's how I learned about sex by the way, through the steamy novels my mother used to read. My father was big on crime stories, westerns and action series (like "The Executioner"). I read those as well.

50 posted on 03/08/2023 7:28:10 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,942,927 Truth | 87,539,833 Twitter)
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To: grundle

Our home was filled with books. My children grew up surrounded by books in every subject, and they loved reading. They truly appreciated receiving books as gifts, too.


51 posted on 03/08/2023 5:53:55 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
>"We are born with nice smooth brains. It is our job to get them all wrinkly with thinking and doing. People do not like the idea that we build our brains because then you have all those uncomfortable questions about people who are apparently NOT thinking."<

Exactly, And for parents, whose children are struggling to learn, one uncomfortable question would be, "Did I do something wrong?" For adults, who have not reached their full potential, the uncomfortable question is, "Should I have studied more?" A small percentage of people have real learning disabilities. Otherwise, most of us are capable of learning much more. But, people would rather believe that intelligence is an inherent trait that cannot be changed. That way, no one is to blame.

52 posted on 03/08/2023 7:02:14 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: cyclotic

Wow, that mirrors our family in so many ways. I am a linguist and historian with a huge library of language centered books, my wife was a nurse with another big library. We have five children.

The children have turned into a professional writer, 1 x business major running scheduling, computer IT guy and another is doing her degree in physics. The youngest boy threw it all out the window and drives trucks.


53 posted on 03/08/2023 7:19:28 PM PST by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: grundle

After reading all of the people on this thread talking about their childhood book reading I guess I need to throw my two cents in.

Every single thing Asimov wrote.
Every single thing Heinlein wrote.
Dune (the entire thing)
All the Ace double science fiction books.
And all of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Anything the school library didn’t nail down before I got there in the morning.


54 posted on 03/08/2023 7:24:42 PM PST by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: wbarmy

I wouldn’t knock the trucker. In our cast, During the lockdown stupidity he usd the most important job in our family. He drove for a lumberyard and kept hundreds of men employed


55 posted on 03/08/2023 7:37:55 PM PST by cyclotic
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To: Tired of Taxes
When we got our youngest she was labeled as socially and mentally retarded. She was four and in every program they could stick her in. After about three months we felt that the programs were not doing any good. So we petitioned the court to be allowed to remove her from the programs and home school her. The judge finally was won over by DH saying that we could hardly do worse then “teachers” that left her in the same diaper all day.

It has been four years of hard work and a lot of tears from all of us but she is now rated as normal socially and slightly advanced scholastically.

We are not super teacher or anything, we just wanted her to be the most she could be.

56 posted on 03/08/2023 9:02:13 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
>"It has been four years of hard work and a lot of tears from all of us but she is now rated as normal socially and slightly advanced scholastically."<

What a wonderful story. Kudos to you and your daughter for all the hard work.

57 posted on 03/09/2023 3:53:29 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: cyclotic; wbarmy

Truck-driving is a good job to have, and from what I hear, it pays well, too.


58 posted on 03/09/2023 4:03:52 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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