Parents should look to Dr. Ben Carson as a role model. Growing up in poverty, with an illiterate single mother, he became one of the leading physician/scientists of our time. The reason was because his mother knew the power of reading, and required him to become a prolific reader. He learned not because of his poor public schools, but in spite of them, only because of his reading skills.
Ben Carson is a great role model for any kid.
I grew up poor, with a working mom.
From first grade, she had me walk from school to the nearby library, to wait there for her to get off work and get me. For three hours a day, I had nothing to do there except read and do homework. I read all the little children’s books there by the end of the first six months, the junior books by middle of second grade, and was reading adult level books by third.
Why did 19th century kids have such a superior reading level? No electronic entertainment.