How to make your kid a non-reader.

[conuly]

Warning, PDF file.

They always say, when encouraging parents to encourage kids to read, that parents should "appear to take an interest" in the kid's books. *laughs* We had to steal our books back from our parents if we ever wanted to read them! Do you know how friggin' annoying it is to find your mom or dad reading the book you "lost" right as you got to the good part???

Stupid advice.

Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Same here. Whenever I left a book somewhere, upon my return I would find my mom or dad had snatched it "just out of interest". There were many secret sneak-and-steal wars in our household, and I suppose this is one of the reasons why I dislike to put a book down before I finished it (or at least reached a point at which the suspense isn't quite so high).
To be fair, I must admit that when I was on vacation with my younger cousins, I often snatched a book they weren't reading at the moment... *cough*

My first thought on reading that suggestion about "appearing to take interest" was, "What, there are people who don't do that naturally?"

[conuly]

Our friend Gian (god she was a brat growing up), her mom Nona was like that. She always took time to tell my parents how wonderful it was that they pretended to like our books, and they never were able to explain to her that they did like our books.