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[quote=Anonymous]I think you are wrong that reading for pleasure is essential--most people don't.

DH and I both read for pleasure, and we read constantly to our kids and always had tons of reading material around. Both kids learned to read relatively easily and were always above grade level. But I have one DS who reads constantly for pleasure, and one DS who did as a young kid but then stopped in middle school and never really started again.

But here's the thing: They're both interesting people who pay attention to current events; both did well in high school and college; both went to good colleges, with the non-pleasure-reading one going to the higher-ranked school; both now out in the world and working good jobs. DS2 reads a lot on-line (newspaper, etc), but never any fiction (that I'm aware of).

For a kid your DD's age, my question is: what is she doing when she could be reading? If the answer is that she is on her phone, etc., then I would put limits on that. You can't make her read in her free time, but you can make it so that she isn't using all her free time looking at her phone.[/quote]

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