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[quote=Anonymous]Reading fiction is wonderful for developing empathy. It is likely a good part of why I survived my traumatic childhood and am thriving now.

I think your post is a bit more about your relationship with your dad than it really is about your son's reading habits. Speculating about what your dad could have done if he wasn't reading isn't especially helpful. Especially when you think about the fact that if you're imagining all the "good" he could have done w/o reading you should also balance that with the bad/worse things he might have been pushed to do if he hadn't had reading as an outlet. There's no way of knowing what he would have been like if he hadn't read so much.

It makes me a little sad to see the comparisons to the iPad, which I consider very different from reading, which requires active participation from the reader. I fear that we humans are becoming more and more passive and just want our entertainment spoonfed to us 24/7 with plenty of little hits of dopamine sprinkled at regular intervals or we get too bored to continue.

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