Parents: No
Nanny: Yes
Read to my Kid's: Almost nightly
My Kid's read to my Grandchildren: yes
Have a great weekend! B-)
Yes
Of course!
Can't wait for the grandkids...
My dad used to read to me after he beat me.
Yes, and my mother told me that i would correct her if she skipped a sentence or something, because I had a very good memory and could remember the stories word-for-word.
I am still like that-I can remember almost all of the control points I have ever been to, names, etc. But, for some reason I can never remember what my wife tells me....
Yes and yes.
I don't remember my parents reading to me. I am 5 of 5 so they were pretty busy by then.
I do remember my Father arriving home and making Vodka Martinis which they would drink and read the evening paper. Parents then weren't so kid centered.
I remember well my grandmother, mother and older sister reading to me. That wasn't Dad's thing. My grandmother would read the Bible to my sister and me frequently. She was the first to work with me on learning to read full sentences from a "grownup" book, the Bible. Grandma only had a sixth grade education so it wasn't too long before she couldn't help me much, but, she tried her hardest anyway.
I read to all of my children and then the older ones read to the younger ones. I recall one evening when the youngest was about two. I looked up from my newspaper to see the older two intently reading their books while the little one had a book, upside down of course, in front of her and would turn a page whenever one of her siblings did the same to their book.
Oldest daughter's oldest child was talking with me yesterday about how things were going for her at school,; she's now a sophomore in high school. She told me they had just taken their State Assessment tests and that in reading she had received the highest score possible.
I can't remember but I think my Mom and aunt read to me.
My father worked strange hours when I was a toddler so I don't think he had the time.
There were books and magazines around the house. But I do remember him singing to me at night..
I started reading to my son at 3 months every night and did not stop until a few years ago when he began reading every night on his own. He is a good reader and reads every day as a 3rd grader. Right now, he is reading Scat by Carl Hiaasen.
In daycare at 3, he would bring books so that Miss Wendy could read to him.
He read the first 4 Potter novels recently and he likes Roald Dahl a lot. I know he read the BFG recently and The Gremlins, Witching Hour. Last fall, he gave me the Stone Fox to read after he read it and told me that I had to read it.
He scores well on the accelerated reading programs at school. FWIW. I necessarily don't agree with the concept for a few reasons.
> Right now, he is reading Scat by Carl Hiaasen.
Alright! That man is funny, but I thought you had to be a Floridian to "get it".
The office where I am sitting right now, is just down the road from Skinks cabin. According to the description in Double Whammy.
Yes to both.
Yup, Dad read the bible to my brother and I at night. Mom read Dr. Suess books as well as other "Youngin'" books to me. The one I can remember the most was "Gus the Friendly Ghost" I don't have any kids, so I can't read to them but most likely will if/when I do have some. I'm not a big reader myself but when I do pick up a book, I usually spend hours reading it straight through, once I get into one it's hard to put it down.
Don't remember my folks reading to me much, but without all the electronic gizmos we kids enjoyed reading. Had an ex LA cop, who was a teacher on the mission read to us in class quite a lot. My wife and I read to our kids when they were small and they loved to hear the same story many times over. I gave my children Calvin and Hobbes and Tin-Tin comics to spark there desire to read and that seemed to work out very well.
> 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.
Yes, we were read to at an early age, but only one of my sisters and myself really love to read today. (Never without a book more than a day or two, usually with a stack of "to be read" sitting somewhere.)
I would think it's a little harder to get kids to love reading today, when there's so much competition for kid's attention with TV, video, games, etc., all relatively cheap and easily available.
Reminds me, I still need to get a Nook or Kindle...
"As you say, PC has sent those stories pretty much away."
Golly, you think there might be a reason for that?
Don
> > Right now, he is reading Scat by Carl Hiaasen.
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> The office where I am sitting right now, is just down the road from Skinks cabin. According to the description in Double Whammy.
Hiaason's two word titles are for adult reading and his one word titles are for youth reading.
He has a middle school age son and decided to write some environmental mystery novels for that age group.
I asked my son about Scat and he said he likes it. He has also read Hoot.
He said the main charater is a boy whose father had his arm blown off in Iraq. The boy character in the book tapes one of his arm behind his back to empathize with his father who is having a hard time adjusting at home. My son was impressed by that.
It is about the Fl. swamps and in this book, a Florida panther. We have swamp here, afer all, we live in the Florida parishes of Louisiana.
I am glad that some of the characters are presented in more real life content for him.
I have read a couple of Hiaasen books. One of them about the bass tournament murders had a setting in the Manchac swamp which is close to here.
Perfect, Robby.
Don
> A couple years ago I found this one at my desk ... our sewage gnome popping out of a manhole
That's so cool, Christ. You made a life long impression with your gnome stories.
(The "sewage gnome" in you photo bears a striking resemblance to what we call "politicians" here in the USA)
Cool photo Robert. I dig the itsy bity hi-tops. We started reading to Allison from the git-go. My favorite memory of my entire life is when she first put it together and was able to read by herself. She came running into our bedroom and said “it’s like the story is happening for reals in my head!!!!!”
Parents, no.
Grandmothers, yes.
They gave me my first books and read them to me. One was "Mickey sees the USA" which was a Disney item following Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, and Donald Duck through every state. It was an illustrated GIS from about 1950. Made a hell of an impression on me as I vowed to visit every stop in the book when I grew up. I eventually visited every stop. But I never grew up, of course.
I read to both of my kids every night. No grandkids yet.
Yes and yes.
