Anonymous wrote:Do any teens and tweens do this voluntarily?

I'm reading with them through audiobooks.

Not sure if this is "right".

This is a joke?

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Anonymous wrote:13 and 10 year old. Both finished their Summer reading assignments (about 6 books each) last month and are reading for pleasure now.

Impressive!

Is this completely self started by kids? Or did you give them incentives, recomnedations?

Different poster: my kids love reading. It’s not a chore for them, so no begging, pleading, threatening or incentives. Not really impressive since they enjoy it.

My kids read a lot all year round. yesterday my son got a new book from Amazon and had finished it by the time we all went to bed. It was about 400 pages.

I do not complain or nag or tell them they have to do this - but I do have to get them to do their Math work and that's not always easy...

I have 11-year-old twins. One had read constantly all summer. The other is on his second book on the reading list. He's a really slow reader and I'm trying to figure out how worried I should be about it...

My 11 year old is mowing through a mountain of Agatha Christie book. About one every day or two.

My rising 7th grade did a year of math this summer (took 8th grade math so he can take Algebra this fall). He loved this but he is torturing us with the reading.
He's been stalled out for weeks on both of the assigned books. It's going to come down to the wire and I'm debating just getting the audio books.

Anonymous wrote:13 and 10 year old. Both finished their Summer reading assignments (about 6 books each) last month and are reading for pleasure now.

Impressive!

Is this completely self started by kids? Or did you give them incentives, recomnedations?

DC going into 7th had one book to read - he is dyslexic and all books can be audio, I don't care. He has read two other books over the summer but refuses to read the assigned book. I think he really resents having to "do school" during the summer, since school is such a slog for him. I'll remind him once or twice more, and then let him face the consequences in September. Ironically, the book is about a dyslexic girl in middle school...

The reading is finished for all. The middle one is dragging his feet on doing the packet that went along with the reading. School starts Thursday and his packet is due Friday.

He's been banned from the pool and video games these last few days of summer until he shows me that he's done it.

He had much more cumbersome AP History summer work that he knocked out by the second week of July.

He got the AP Lit teacher that he didn't want, so I think that's why he's dragging his feet on finishing the packet.

13 and 10 year old. Both finished their Summer reading assignments (about 6 books each) last month and are reading for pleasure now.

Anonymous wrote:Serious question--why bribe/do it for them? Just let them go back and be screwed. They will learn.

People always post this on DCUM. Easy to so when it's not your child. And I agree it works for some kids, who will learn to self-start and fix themselves.
But for a lot of children, this will close doors for them, and their brains aren't ready yet to understand long term consequences. The brain matures in the 20s, or older for people with ADHD.

So do what you want with YOUR child. Don't lament that others parent their kids a little more.

Serious question--why bribe/do it for them? Just let them go back and be screwed. They will learn.

Well. It’s getting DS to prepare for his upcoming AP classes and Algebra 2 that’s been a little harder.

My son read several of the books on his reading list, but refused to do the worksheets.

I had to bribe him with extra screentime for an upcoming event on his game du jour to get him to actually finish them

Do any teens and tweens do this voluntarily?

I'm reading with them through audiobooks.

Not sure if this is "right".