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[quote=Anonymous][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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[b]Learning the skill of reading takes practice.  Once mastered, you can come back to it whenever you want. [/b]

Kids can still enjoy reading. Don’t force daily reading. Don’t force them to read “good literature” in place of the “trash” they enjoy. Don’t pay/bribe them to read, turning an intrinsically enjoyable activity into work.

Do let them see you read for enjoyment. Do share things (quotes, news/magazine articles, etc) that you enjoy/find interesting with them. Do read together - pick a fun book to read together just for the pleasure of the experience, or pick an audiobook to enjoy together in the car. Do take them to libraries/bookstores frequently. Do seek out and offer them reading choices (not requirements) that you think they might (not should) enjoy - including magazines, books on topics of interest, really good books (not necessarily classics) that they might not have heard of, new books that are generating buzz, novelty books, etc.  Amazon and Goodreads both offer helpful suggestions based on previous preferences to find additional books that might be of interest. [/quote]

This only partially true. Once you master reading, you will always have the skill. But the skill of reading a full-length novel can absolutely be weakened. This is true for children and adults. It takes focus and self discipline to read a novel if your brain is adjusted to online scrolling, texts, or shorter-format reading.

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