In a thread below, there was a sort of informal poll of inept parenting practices revolving around corporal punishment, but the flip side of that is for me to ask how many had parents who read stories to them when they were kids and to ask if they continued that with their own children.
I was read to as a kid and we read to our kids.
Don't ever remember any punishment involved in no reading due to misbehavior.
But if it happened then I know there are no resentments lingering.
My wife hadn't encountered that in her life but took it up with enthusiasm.
It was a lot of fun and I still know some books nearly off pat.
Our kids took this to heart I guess as they continued the practise.
It is still talked about and brings back fond memories.
Nope. :-/
Yes, to both and have continued with the grandkids.
Yes to both.
Yes to both.
yes,
my parents did, and we both did later on with our kids.
We have some nice memories about these days ... after reading it should be bedtime but our oldest daughter always found a way to postpone this moment. One of her favorite questions was 'Dad, tell me what did you do today, didn't anything special happen today?' We were working in Ostend on a large sewage databank and we dropped off daily in the sewers and the large hydraulic structures ... not much to bore a 5 year old kid.
So one evening after the regular story and the postpone question I started telling about the sewage gnomes ... it seemed to be much more entertaining then the regular stories ... I have been narrating about the sewage gnomes for months, and still 15 years later, we sometimes laugh about these fantasies.
A couple years ago I found this one at my desk ... our sewage gnome popping out of a manhole
both our kids are now avid readers,
Chr.
Granny read to me. My parents didn't.
I used to read to my step-daughters when they asked.
To increase their skills I had them read to me/us on occasion.
Yes to both.
Yes to both; I credit it for giving me the enjoyment I get from reading; I still fondly recall Uncle Remus' Stories and Briar Rabbit and the Tar Baby (try getting that published today).
Yes, and Yes. My five kids are all readers. Books are frequent gifts for us.
My mother was a teacher, she read to me all the time.
I feel like it helped me considerably.
My wife didn't have anyone read to her.
When our daughter was born I realized the importance of reading a bedtime story to her, I usually would "take over" for my wife when I got home, and reading to her at bedtime was very dear to me.
I believe it paid off.
Yes and N/A
My dad, although a nuclear engineer by profession, was an amateur classicist (must have been all that Latin the nuns beat into him); when other kids were being read Dr Seuss, I was listening to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius before bedtime
Yes and Yes.
As usual, you're baiting and trolling to trounce on something......
My mom read those as well. She was terrific with accents and we always loved those stories. I still have those old books...
As you say, PC has sent those stories pretty much away.
My grandparents and my parents both were real big on reading to us kids. I always thought that reading to my children was some of the best hours of my life. Then I got grandkids. That's even better.
> Yes and Yes.
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> As usual, you're baiting and trolling to trounce on something......
Kris,
Your cynicism is showing. Just consider Kent a ying to someone's yang. 🙂
Yes, and I read all of the time. Read to my kids when they were small, too.
Remembering mom reading is still special.
Mom was the result of the depression, hard times and hard work for almost nothing.
Dad was the result of the depression, hard times and no work . . . often, no home. He was very often "fostered out".
Mom & dad had 7 kids, so time at home wasn't so great in the "me", time aspect, but they tried.
Never spanked us, except for the following shot while they had hold of our arm . . . mom seldom read to us, but when she did, it was almost magical.
I agree, reading to our grandkids is one of our favorite things to do. The whole bedtime routine is great - they love routine and notice the slightest deviation. I am much more patient and consistent as a grandparent than I was as a parent. I was an avid reader as a child, staying up late at night reading under the covers with a flashlight. I don't remember my parents reading to me but I was the seventh of eight kids.
