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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Starts at home, well before school. Parents either invest the time or they don't. [/quote]

Agree with this. If your kid is not an independent and eager reader by 3rd grade it’s a parenting issue. [/quote]

I mean this just isn’t true. Independent reader— sure, if no learning disabilities. But some people will never love reading. My parents heavily encouraged reading, but I definitely wasn’t “eager” to read until waaaay past third grade. [/quote]

+1 I was never an eager reader as a kid, but no one seemed to care because I excelled academically and on standardized tests.

I have two teens who used to be voracious readers when younger, but they rarely read an entire book for pleasure anymore. It’s the phones. We waited until 8th grade to give them phones, monitored their screen time for the first few years, made them wait til 16 for social media… but their attention spans are short now. Mine is too. [/quote]

There’s hope! One of our two kids read very little in college, but has picked up the habit again post graduation [/quote]

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