Are Your Kids Motivated to Read? Mine Are. You Can Learn How Too.
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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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Motivating Kids to Read on Twitter Search
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- jaybayplane
- Decreased reading interest in kids can be directly correlated to a decrease in read-aloud time Read until your lips fall off !
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- lallaporter
- @TheNabbitect The science of glass - I started reading the article aloud to my kids. :D Cool & scary isn't it?
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- If my kids ask me how much longer when I read aloud, do I take it as a sign of a SLOW, boring book? No., I keep reading to torture them.
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- @BJMuntain My goal for a plane trip is to keep my kids entertained, de-whined, and tear-free. Reading aloud=success every time.
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- I've got one thing to say to the grumpy old woman on the plane who wanted to know for how long I would be reading aloud to my kids: "Phhpt!"
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- What I'm reading aloud to the kids this summer: http://tiny.cc/vDNMm Keep the Kleenex handy!
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- NicolePaull
- Washing dishes and then cozying up with my kids to spend some time reading "The Bellmaker" aloud. Anyone else like Redwall books?
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- Katjewave
- @LiteracyCounts I read Skippyjohn Jones to my k-class and they LOVE it! As a read aloud, it's for all kids. Reading level? 1-2
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- carynrey
- what is a relaxing monday morn in our house? me reading aloud to the kids while they eat - new book today - little house in the big woods!
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- EgbertOostburg
- @borg1 Just finished reading your dad's book. Your family's tradition of reading aloud motivated me to cut my cable tv for my kids!
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The love of books.
Bill Geist visits a Bookstore made from a Manure Tank
CBS Sunday Morning's offbeat correspondent Bill Geist visits a very unusual bookstore near Princeton, Wisconsin. Lenore & Lloyd Dickmans' bookstore is set on a farm, and the books take up 12 buildings, one of which was built from a slurry tank that once brimmed with cow manure. They are voracious book-collectors, and my family has sold books to them before at the Princeton Flea Market in central Wisconsin.
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The Book Whisperer
Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade language arts and social studies teacher in Texas who is said to have a "gift": She can turn even the most reluctant (or in her words "dormant") readers into students who can't put their books down. After responding to reader questions in her popular, "Creating Readers" Ask The Mentor column, Donalyn has returned to blog. She will write about how to inspire and motivate student readers, and respond to issues facing teachers and other leaders in the literacy field.
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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."
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