[KateatRFM]

There is way too much of that for me to read, but I agree with what I did read. The latest craze for "teaching" children to "read" by offering them electronic books that sound out words FOR them, and the mothers who sit with their babies encouraging them to push buttons -- rather than READING to their babies -- is a very said sight.

[heckler]

Finish Later

[kahoutek]

Long before I was blessed with two daughters, a friend said to me "If you want your kids to read, read to them, and keep books in the house."

Both of my girls are voracious readers, and bless me, conservative.

[tiki]

The one thing I notice is that people don't TALK to their children, they talk at them. Sometimes it's just a running commentary on the adults part and the child never gets a word in edgewise. There is no semblance of a conversation.

I hate it when I hear a mother following after a kid, nagging, especially when they are sitting there telling him not to do something that the kid is doing and not doing anything to stop them except nagging.