Posted on 11/08/2010 7:39:06 AM PST by Immerito
Homeschool him.
Like I always tell my wife, “Reading is for sissies.”
/ONLY kidding
Mike
very well written article. The solution he gives (of minimizing or eliminating electronic media like video games from the house) is very, very apt and correct.
We keep our 10YO son reading by getting him his own magazine subscription. He informed us he is too old for "baby magazines" so he now gets Sporting News in the mail. He loves sports so this enourages his reading - and he's reading on a bit higher level.
Yes, homeschool him and then make available the Great Literature — Homer, Dickens, Shakespeare. Read aloud as a family, too. That way they can grasp vocabulary beyond their years.
I did!
What have you got, another six weeks of WSJ issues stacked up, still to plow through?
Read what, exactly? When liberals talk about reading they mean liberal tripe. When I was a kid of about 10 years old and got into Ayn Rand I was discouraged doing so by the librarian, my teachers, and even my siblings (Yes, they are horribly liberal). I read the books anyway and learned far more about the world than my sisters reading Nancy Drew.
My son always had his nose in a book , but then he was always grounded and reading was pretty much the only thing he could do .
I loved Bradbury and Ellison and a bunch of authors I don't remember.
I'm not sure you can technique your way into a boy's mind and develope a desire to read.
I think there is some genetics involved with the ability to "see" with words and to have an imagination that allows that sight or vision to be transformed into a thought pattern.
Donning double layer tinfoil now and my kitties are all around me for protection.
Give him a set of Heinlein’s juvenile SF novels and a bunch of Louis L’Amour and step aside. If he can resist rocket ships, he probably can’t resist cowboys, so you’re covered.
I let mine stay up as long as they liked ...if they were reading
Read what, exactly?
That is a private matter between the parents of the child and the child-—the child to discover his/her reading preferences, and the parents to set boundaries, as needed, by which the child may indulge those preferences and to encourage the child to broaden his literary horizons the same way they broaden his culinary horizons.
Sounds like a good plan. Are they still voracious readers today?
For some reason, I just do not see sports magazines equated with higher level reading...
Yes. I am proud to say all three are.
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