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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. For the person who mentioned the chat rooms on the fashion games, thanks for the info! I will check the next time she does it...I sure hope there's no chat room.

Re: the 10.5 hours of weekly screen time: I wish so much that my child would enjoy reading for pleasure, but she never has. I've done the standard: read to her starting at two months old everyday once she was older; consulted Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook for fantastic read-aloud books (which my daughter loved hearing). I've stocked the house with Harry Potter, Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Harriet the Spy, Island of Blue D., etc. She just never chooses to read for fun.

I think one small part of the problem is they always have to read about two books at a time at school (she's in 5th Grade). She just finished Stargirl and When You Reach Me, for example. But since she always has to read for school, she doesn't want to do it for pleasure. (I actually broke down this week and bought her a Clique novel by Lisi Harrison in the hopes that she might enjoy reading it. It's kind of catty, but could be a guilty pleasure.)

So part of the reason she gets 10.5 hours of screen time per week is she is not curling up with a book as I did as a kid. But on the plus side, she never watches tv after dinner, she is in Choir, and she plays the trombone in band. She also sets the table before dinner.  Believe me, we have TONS of time for interacting, laughing and goofing around together.

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