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You seem more like an extrovert, or at least a person who likes to be out and doing things. I'm obviously not.Originally Posted by ut0pia
My dad was the same way, his parents never read to him but he read a lot as soon as knew how. I was the opposite I didn't like to read as a kid but my mom always read to me (I did like to listen to people read to me) and was pushing me to read when I got older, she would make me read for 2 hours every day during summer vacations...Eventually I started to enjoy reading on my own but i'd probably be one of those people who never read a book in their lives if it wasn't for my parents reading to me and pushing me to read classics as a kid...
i guess it depends on the kid's disposition..some kids probably need that push by parents.
My mother always did support me buying books as a kid, too. Often because she'd read them after I did.
We've went a little O/T but it does all tie back together. Reading is very important and anymore kids, teens, and young adults do not spend as much time reading as they should. Just like math should be pushed more at younger ages for both boys and girls instead of dumbing it down (it only hurts a lot of us later on).
There was actually a story on my local news a little while back; a mother was concerned that her son, and other students, were being required to read too much. She even made a site for it .