Motivating Your Kids To Read
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Most Readers Don't Watch Much TV
Are your kids readers? Are you a reader?
What parent doesn't want their kids to read?
Most kids who do well in school are readers.They don't watch a lot of TV.
Are you serious in changing your child's reading habits?
Creating a habit takes time. Most habits take 21 days to create.
Let's take a little test.
Parents, are you and your kids addicted to TV?
I want you to turn-off the TV tonight. Write down the reactions you get. Hey, better yet, tomorrow night hide the remote control. See what happens. Priceless!
Seriously, you owe it to yourself and your kids to limit or eliminate TV watching all together.
Research has shown that kids who watch too much TV do worse in school when compared to kids who read at home.
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Parenting isn't easy. I know. If you start today it will be easier tomorrow.
"Empowering people to take control of technology and not letting technology take control of them so they can live healthier lives." -http://www.tvturnoff.org
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." -Groucho Marx
"American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70 they will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV."
-- The Kaiser Family Foundation
Parents please monitor what your kids watch. A TV is not a baby-sitter and not a means for peace and quiet.
Get your kids outside to make their own discoveries.
If Parents don't do something at a grass roots level, the major networks will continue to push the decency envelope to compete with cable.
Create different family activities during the week:
Carpet Picnic-Eat on a plastic table cloth in the living room with paper plates.
Movie Night-Get some pillows and blankets. Watch any favorite.
Reading Night-Take turns reading together.
Game Night- Chess, checkers, Uno, Scrabble, Monopoly, Cranium etc.
Art Night- Finger paint with jello and water mix. Be creative.
Cookies and milk night-Bake some cookies together.
Music- Dance to the oldies
Sports Night
Are you up for the challenge? We owe it to our kids to be different. Society wants us to be the same. Break the mold today!
You will find many more great resources and fun ideas at the sites below.
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The love of books.
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Book Swaps
- BookMooch
- Give books away.Get books you want.
- PaperBackSwap : Your source for swapping books online!
- Swap your used paperback books with other book lovers while reading books from other members for free.
Anti-Couch Potato Sites
- Welcome to TV Turnoff Network
- TV-Turnoff Network helps children and adults watch less TV. We organize TV-Turnoff Week and More Reading, Less TV, national programs with over six million participants last year. Turn off TV, Turn on Life!
- TV Turnoff Week 2006 : Adbusters.org
- Don't think you're addicted to TV? Then why not prove it by going cold turkey for a week? You'd be surprised how difficult it can be to disconnect - and what a profound week of self discovery it can be.
- No Television TurnOffYourTV.com
- "Do you know we are ruled by TV?"
-- from the poem An American Prayer by Jim Morrison "They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off
. . . I really don't watch much TV."
-- President George W. Bush, C-SPAN interview, January 2005 "American children and adolescents - Inspirational Goal Quotes - The Biggest Collection On The Web!
- A huge collection of inspirational goal quotes and sayings.
Free E-Books - Motivating Reluctant Readers
- In a time when children are becoming increasingly savy about how they spend their time it can be really hard to get children to pick up a book. The long term implications of this are not to be underestimated, reading is a life long skill that we use on a daily basis.
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- Journal of John David Mann- Deliriously Delightful History
- I've never been a serious history buff. But as my home page points out, "I have a passion for great writing." Lately I've been exploring historical writers, looking for tastes of "the exquisite beauty of a powerful idea expressed in expertly-chosen words."
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KaraLynnRussell
Jul 9, 2009 @ 9:29 pm | delete
- One of the best things about being a librarian is being able to match up books and people, esp. if the people think they don't like to read. Thanks for adding to my resources.
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tandemonimom Apr 4, 2009 @ 11:15 am | delete
- Great lens! Lensrolled to How to Get Your Kids to Love Reading.
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Lisa-Marie-Mary Jun 3, 2008 @ 10:11 am | delete
- Great lens with some cool resources! Thanks!
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