Comments on: How books can change a child’s life

By: Uncle Suri’s books « LIFE.x

Uncle Suri’s books « LIFE.x — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:49:12 +0000

[...] chanced upon seeing this blog post when I thought about the short story I had written some time back. I too, for one started [...]

By: Hope Wilbanks

Hope Wilbanks — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:45:31 +0000

My daughter, just like me, is a bookworm, too. She always has been, and I love it. She doesn’t read quite as much as I did when I was her age, but that’s b/c I didn’t have electronic games or movies to take up some of my time.

Thanks for the reminder….I’m going to set aside a special time to read to both of my children this week.

By: Marijke

Marijke — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:06:27 +0000

My two older kids were HUGE readers but I just couldn’t get my younger one interested in reading. He could, he just didn’t see it as a pastime to enjoy. I was one of those moms that allowed the kids to buy just about any book they wanted from Scholastic and we had a ton of books in the house.

One day, when he was in about grade 3 maybe, he had a Captain Underpants book. Well, I tell you, the kid was in hysterics trying to tell me the story in the book – he was laughing so hard he couldn’t finish a sentence.

The next day, I went out and bought all the books I could by that author and my son read those and then – get this – he read Harry Potter next.

He is now 16 and reads anything from Shake Hands with the Devil to Edgar Allen Poe, like his older brother and sister.

Never give up if your child doesn’t seem to enjoy reading. If it takes Goosebumps and Who’s afraid of the dark (what got my oldest son into books) or the Baby sitters club (my daughter’s books of choice when she was in elementary school), don’t dismiss a book as “candy,” only. We have to get the kids to like to read first, and if that’s what it takes, then that’s how we should do it.