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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys, if you have tweens, you need to make them read. Don’t believe the people who tell you it will make your kid hate reading. The reason kids avoid it is because it’s HARD. Reading is hard. Their reading brains are out of practice, and it is indeed a struggle. But it does get easier. They’ve got to push through. I don’t know why parents make their kids do sports, exercise, practice an instrument, enforce chores and yet somehow they give up on reading!

The goal is not to grow your kids into lifelong readers.  The goal is to make them literate so they can read documents, manuals, books, contracts, literature and textbooks in all subjects matters through their high school and college years.  They will not magically become readers. I promise. [/quote]

No, reading isn’t hard.  Learning to read is hard.  Once you learn how to read, it is effortless.  If a child is struggling in middle school with the skill of reading, they need remediation.  At that point, daily practice isn’t going to magically chamge things, they’re just reinforcing bad habits that they’ve already been practicing for several years.

Some things like contracts and manuals are hard to read, not because we’re accessing them by reading, but because we’re unfamiliar with the content we’re reading.  The reason people hire lawyers for important contracts, isn’t because they’re illiterate, it’s because they aren’t experts in contract law.  Listening to somebody else reading the contract would not make it easier to understand.  Similarly, technical manuals may be difficult to read by those who lack technical expertise, but the limiting factor is content knowledge, not reading ability.  Reading novels for 30 minutes a day is not going to make somebody a legal or technical expert.

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Ok so you’re obviously clueless and have much to learn, but go ahead and persuade parents that their tweens shouldn’t read over the summer. Hopefully they don’t listen.  [/quote]

Ok so your kids are not very academic and you have much to learn about the variety of intelligence levels, but go ahead and persuade yourself that everyone else's kids have the same struggles as yours.[/quote]

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