According to the survey, seven in ten teachers believe parents are not involved enough in their child’s education, compounding on issues like a lack of access to books. Age of Learning, an education technology and resource company, conducted an online survey of parents (with children ages 2 to 14) and 1,000 teachers (in preschool to 6th-grade classrooms) to get a better understanding of children’s reading. What they found was a dim outlook on young readers. You can follow the full article here... https://nikvukov1c20.clickfunnels.com/optini1t8ocl

My dad liked to read, had a rather extensive speculative fiction home library.
I started reading as soon as I was able to comprehend the subject matter (about 7 years old). I read his whole Tarzan collection by ERB first.
He never pressured me to read but his library was at my disposal.

I joined various mail-order book clubs and by the time I had children of my own I had a pretty significant home library (including encyclopedias and dictionaries). My kids grew up watching me reading.
I never pressured my kids to read either.

All my kids like to read too. They have their own home libraries. Their kids (my grandkids) like to read too.

I still read but now I read on a computer screen. I have a nice electronic book collection which grows as I get more hard drive space. I read internet webpages and online articles, scientific papers and psychology reports.
I have no paper books in my home now.

Reading is difficult and time consuming for some kids.
Comprehension is difficult for some kids.
While I loved to read on my own at my own pace, I hated reading when I was forced to do it.

Reading is a discipline which requires encouragement and support.
Punishment is an ineffective method to teach reading.
The parent has to want to teach the child and the child has to want to learn to master reading.

If a child is having trouble reading...
* find them something they WANT to read.
* Positively reinforce their attempts.

Mmmm Well as I agree with parents needing to be involved in their child's education.
I often wonder when they have he time to do so, as both parents working full time to pay bills that seem to never stop. Seems now days it takes 3 incomes to manage a house hold. Rents, mortgages way out there. I never imagined a house payment of 2k or more a month. But me being poor well,, mmm,,, I can't even fathom being able to do a $600 a month payment. So as they should be involved I don't see where they have time.
Back in the day Dad worked Mom stayed home, Not really possible now days. ??


My own opinion only.

Perhaps it would be wiser for parents to teach their children to live within their means but in today's society of "I want what I want and I want it all right now, I'll pay later" mentality you will be hard-pressed to find any parents with that much self-control. OMO

I agree, I at a younger age fell into the " have now, pay later TRAP!" Glad I got out of it. Took long time.

While I love reading, always have done, neither one of my kids do.
But they spend quite some time on reading at school, so it was never an issue.
My son is dyslexic which was an extra reason for him to not like reading. My girl read books for a short time then suddenly came to dislike it.
But again, they spent ample time at school where they had to read books.

Both can read very well, although my son prefers other means of learning new stuff due to his dyslexia.

When my daughter moved to the US she had to learn to read more difficult English than she was used to as she was studying psychology and later on criminology. She quickly got the hang of it as she's good with languages.
Again, reading wasn't and still isn't a problem, even though she never really liked it much.

Sometimes researchers make a mountain out of a molehill.

I've got a son that's 28 years old and one that's 5 years old. My youngest ones mum died last year. I've also got a grandson, who is 6. Brought my oldest one up myself for years, but that was different circumstances, as his mum is still alive and I won custody of him through the Courts. My youngest one is only now starting to realise that his mother isn't coming back. Breaks my heart when he used to ask me where she was, as she's loved and missed by both of us. A diamond of a lassie. Slowly, but surely he realises now, that she's never coming back, but I know the wee man is hurting inside, even though he tries to put a brave face on it. A brilliant gift, from an amazing woman. I' m just glad that I was lucky enough to have had her in my life, even for the time we had together, it was the happiest of my life!

Then don't have children if your focus is on your work and you're to busy.

You are really lucky to have those happy memories! Why not create a book about the time you had with your wife, include photos, how you met and all the special memories. Then your boy can read it whenever he misses his mom.

I'm so sorry

Lovely idea