Kevin's Watch

Avatar wrote:The Hobbit was my best...I still read it occasionally.

--A

Likewise, it's the first "proper" book I remember reading.


My parents didn't really read that much to me when I was a kid, I just liked it when I started to read, and being an only child, it was easier to read than to play monopoly against myself.

We always read a story to our kids before bed, and as soon as they are old enough we'll be encouraging them to read for themselves.

We're using flash cards to teach them letters and numbers, and they are doing really well, so here's hoping they keep it up.


A big well done to anyone who reads to, and encourages kids to read.

Phantasm wrote: My parents didn't really read that much to me when I was a kid, I just liked it when I started to read, and being an only child, it was easier to read than to play monopoly against myself.

Beorn does this on a regular basis though.
When he does play against us, he's nearly unbeatable...

Phantasm wrote:We always read a story to our kids before bed, and as soon as they are old enough we'll be encouraging them to read for themselves.

I read a study somewhere that said even after kids can read for themselves, a nightly bed time story for as long as the child allows and wants the parents to do so is encouraged. Some families continue throughout the teen years, although it segues into reading newpaper stories to each other that they find of interest and what not.

It was something I heard of after we got out of the habit of reading to Beorn once he started reading on his own. Something I regret now.

Just picked up Harry Potter 1 for the middle child, as well as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Although, we wants us to read the Novelasation of the first Spider man movie first.
Don't read mujch to the older one anymore, as he can read to himself...although, when Garth Nix's Lady Friday comes out on paperback, I'll read that to him.