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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want your kids to love to read, right? Please don't make it a chore. Make a weekly trip to the library, combine it with a trip to get a treat if you want to, but please don't force them to read things they don't want. [/quote]

I believe OP has middle schoolers, not elementary schoolers. But I MISS the days of going to the library and getting a treat!  We used to get piles of books…sigh….now most kids don’t read unless forced to by teachers. I think the fear that kids will hate reading if you make them isn’t accurate. They may hate you 😜 but they may eventually like reading if they stick with it. Reading takes practice, it truly does, I think people forget that. It’s like exercise. 
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You're responding to me. I have two teens who thankfully still like to read. We still do weekly library trips, though their piles are much smaller these days :) my 13 year old prefers graphic novels. Sure I would love them to read full novels, but I'm not forcing it on them. I'm grateful that they consider themselves readers. That's worth more to me than pushing to read more complicated books. But I get the sentiment that they'll have to read more complicated books as they get older, so it could be good practice now. So many angles :)[/quote]

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