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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Why aren’t you reading to your kids regularly?

It’s recommended through middle school.
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Your family should be doing this and reading a book a month and discussing.

Do you work nights or something?[/quote]
what?  Why on earth would you read to a MSer?  That's insane.  Talk about babying a tween/teen.

I have two kids.

One is gifted, and like a PP, classes at home school were insanely easy compared to the HGC (former name of CES), and they would typically have so much time in class that they'd do that night's HW, and the next day's as well if they got the assignment early enough.

The other is above average, not gifted, and even this DC said the writing was insanely easy in MS.  This DC was in the whatever enrichment MS class MCPS came up with as a consolation to the MS magnet lottery.

It gets better in HS, but not by much unless you take an AP class. And MS also does a crappy job preparing kids for the more rigorous AP classes.[/quote]

My husband and I read books to each other.  Am I babying him?   Nope, we are sharing a love of great books.  Same with reading to MS kids.  If you’re too lazy to do it, fine, but don’t claim it’s about independence.   My MS kid mows neighbors’ lawns, walks their dogs, routinely watches their kids while they are in the house but busy, etc.  He walks/bikes to the store to buy groceries.  He reads on his own and with me or his dad.   All these things can be true![/quote]

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