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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents need to get off their phones and get their kids to the libraries and read to their kids. Like, every week. Takes out books and bring them home, and read every single night. Boom, kids will start reading. [/quote]

Good luck with that. Libraries just don't have the books. My kid loves the popular series and the library will have book 2, book 5 and no others. It just killed her motivation to read and made the library inaccessible for us. I'm not interested in ebooks at her age because school already sticks her on a  computer all day. This is super privileged, but the way we got my dd reading last year was that we budgeted $500 and just bought every book she wanted. All the Percy Jacksons, all the Harry Potters, all the who was/what is books, all the series of unfortunate events. We put her to bed at 8pm and said she could read until 8:30, but could do nothing else. At 8:30 she begged for 9pm which of course we granted. On non school nights she can stay up as late as she'd like reading. My dd is in 4th grade and I'm so grateful that she turned it around last year.

My dd could read, it was that she couldn't maintain the attention span to finish a book because she's been trained by schools to be on screens. She's definitely finishing at least 1 book a week now.

And I do like libraries, I play the library game with requesting books for myself, but it's a lot of work for an adult. Kids can't do that and would lose steam when they couldn't get book 2 as fast as they wanted.[/quote]

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