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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are grown. DH and I focused on teaching two things.

1. They learned to be deeply kind.

2. They learned to love to read.

That's what we focused on, day in and day out. Year after year, for each child. Kindness to others: self-compassion as well.

We read aloud nightly to each of them through fifth grade, which was years after they could read to themselves. (They also read to themselves every day because they all became bookworms).

If you have those two things in place by the the kids leave home, they have the tools for a great adulthood, IMHO. They seek out kind people to be around, because that is what is familiar, and they can get along with people due to their consistent kindness (including marriages and colleagues and their own children and their parents!) because of #1.

Regarding priority #2: you can get the information you need to learn about any aspect of life, as you live it, decade by decade, by reading (and loving it)

That's it. Too many priorities will muddy the waters in parenting. Keep it simple.

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Guess my dyslexic kid is screwed.  She will never live to read.  She's very curious, though, and learns in many other ways.  Guess all of your reading didn't open your mind.[/quote]

Audio books do the same thing for my child with dyslexia. [/quote]

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