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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a teen and reading didn't do it, it's not going to do it now.

My son is interested in sports and music.

I listen to his music and find words I think he doesn't understand and explain it to him. I also take lyrics I don't understand and he explains them to me... which usually requires a lot of background information since I don't know pop culture stuff.

We read sports articles on line or in the paper (i know we still get a paper) and there is good vocabulary there.

It eventually turned into ... yes mom I know what XXX means... I'm not an idiot, I know who the speaker of the house is... etc. (unfortunately there is a lot of politics in sports)[/quote]

Oh yea... we pick a word a month and try to use it randomly and we get points and the winner does something lame like make the other ice cream... my son loves anything competitive.

Myopic is the word of the month.[/quote]
Not trying to be mean, but a word a month isn't tremendously enriching your vocabulary. 12 words a year?
It has to be 10 words a week, at least, to be making a difference. [/quote]

it's one of many things we do. It's just 12 more words and it's a game.

No offense but Ann of Green Gables. Not happening. Sports/songs/games... work for us... you do you.

Monthly is fun because you might not think about it for a few days and then bam... the word.

Also we had a neighbor that did TV interviews weekly and we would give him a word he had to work into his interview for fun. Not a new vocabulary word something odd like "blue bird".

Sometimes life doesn't have to be such a slog. [/quote]

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