Posted on 12/11/2017 7:59:07 AM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO (WLS) -- In one day, a 4-year-old Chicago boy read 100 books, including his favorites about Ninja turtles and dogs.
As Caleb Green's reading marathon got started on Saturday, his parents decided to stream it on Facebook Live. He got a couple thousand views from people as far away as Florida.
And every time he finished 10 books, he did a little dance.
"I like to read and I want to read some more like my sister," Caleb said.
When Caleb first told his parents about his goal, they scoured their bookshelves. When they came up short, some friends dropped by with more books.
"I was like, 100, son? That's a lot of books. So at first, I had the gut reaction to talk him down a little bit but he was like, 'No, I want to read 100,'" his father Sylus Green said.
Dad said he's inspired.
"I learned to just dream bigger and I am going to set unrealistic goals for myself this coming year and I'm going to be inspired by Caleb to not quit on him and just push through it," he said.
As for Caleb, he has big plans for the future.
"I want to be a basketball player. When I am 22 I want to be an astronaut and when I'm 23 I want to be a Ninja turtle," he said.
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He wants to be a Ninja Turtle....that’s your first clue.
I watched him reading some books. It was horribly tedious, so I gave up watching. I question the number of books read. The video I skimmed over was almost 3 hours IIRC. Would not be surprised if the parents planned this to go on Steve Harvey’s or Ellen’s show.
Should he become a journalist, advice is to learn Latin.
Give the poor kid a bat, ball and glove and tell him to get over to the ball yard.
“Seems fake.”
If, at grandson’s birthday party (6 years old) the other day, I had not seen one of the kids he goes to school with, start reciting the periodic table ( the last one I recall was palladium ) I would not question entirely this kids reading abilities.......
This four year old is negro and from Chicago. There are some things that he could do that I could maybe believe. Field strip a Keltec 9. Roll a blunt. Cut an ounce of cocaine with manitol and package it up in one gram bags. Memorize every licence plate of the men who come at night to visit his mamma. Or gran mamma. Road one elementary school level book written in standard English and answer basic comprehension questions after a ten minute delay from reading the last page? Maybe one half of one percent chance. Adults are pimping this child looking for money.
Don’t they forcibly retire ninja turtles when they turn 20?
Wonder how long the books were?.
I think they just graduate from being Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Adult Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Galt’s speech ?
The fact that mom was pointing to the words tells me that he can't read with any degree of proficiency unassisted.
He sure doesn't know reality if he wants to be a Ninja Turtle.
I never said it wasn’t a publicity stunt. Doesn’t make it
Impossible. DD often will read 15 to 20 on her own with no encouragement.
Kids like this almost always wind up leading very,*very* unhappy...and often very *short*...lives.
Kinda like I was thinking.
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