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What do I do to get my nine-year old boy off books with pictures and onto books with text content?
So it looks like you have two questions, how to foster a love of reading and how to get your son to start reading more reading-level appropriate books (that phrasing was chosen carefully, I'll get to ...
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What can we do? Teacher assigned a book that will be too upsetting to our child because of the anxiety she’s facing during the pandemic
First, a note: I am not speaking to whether this is a correct choice on your part on her behalf; I would encourage you to ask that as a separate question.
If you have concerns about a particular ...
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What do I do to get my nine-year old boy off books with pictures and onto books with text content?
Your son sounds like my son! A few years ago I went through the same struggle. Bright kid, reading way above grade level, but spends all of his time reading Dogman and Captain Underpants. Tried a ...
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How do I make my kids love reading?
First off, I'd recommend you change your language some. "How do I make my kids..." never ends well. Your kids are their own people, and they'll choose to like, or not like, things; trying ...
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What can we do? Teacher assigned a book that will be too upsetting to our child because of the anxiety she’s facing during the pandemic
I've had similar reservations about books chosen by my child's teacher, and in every case it's been better to reserve judgement until after the child has at least sampled the book. Some books that I ...
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How do I make my kids love reading?
A Tale of Two Children
I have two boys, both grown now, but they were very different. We read to them every night, multiple books, and they both loved being read to.
However, when the older one came ...
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How to deal with the story books which indicate stealing to be okay/good?
You don't have to avoid them. I read (and listened to) many of these fairy stories when I was young and the child's mind does not take in the same details than an adult one might.
In fact, I'm now in ...
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Securing books from toddler
You are entering the "flood state" of childrearing. At least, that's what we dubbed it at our house: As the child gains more and more "upward mobility", the lower levels of shelves get emptier, ...
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Do children start believing in fairies and magic after being read from a book? If yes, then how to respond to "but the book says it is true"?
There are many, many fictional tales that your child will encounter while growing up. Some are in books, some are in other media (TV, movies), some are cultural (e.g. the Tooth Fairy), some will be ...
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What do I do to get my nine-year old boy off books with pictures and onto books with text content?
Continue with your practice of encouraging your son to read, and have patience. Reading to him, buying books and going together to the library to borrow books are all great ways to help develop ...
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How do I make my kids love reading?
Children see, children do.
When they hang out with you, or even nearby you, read a lot of books. When they look interested, show them what you're reading and talk to them about it.
Make silly faces ...
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How do I make my kids love reading?
I can't beat the existing best answer! But to add a few more points...
Don't underestimate the value of pictures
If your children are too young to read, the pictures help the child stay with the story,...
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Securing books from toddler
First off, you definitely will find that if you're consistent with your child, she will learn to leave things alone, mostly, that aren't that interesting and she's been asked not to touch, in most ...
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How to create learning opportunities for the toddler who is already *extremely* interested in books?
At two, while you certainly can begin working on alphabet and numerals and counting, I tend to feel that the most important things are creativity, emotions, and breadth of experience.
By breadth of ...
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What do I do to get my nine-year old boy off books with pictures and onto books with text content?
This addresses only one aspect of @Becuzz's excellent answer, and @Paul Johnson suggested it (albeit very briefly.) So, nothing new here, just fleshing it out.
My first child was reluctant to move ...
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How do I make my kids love reading?
To answer your first question, comic books are fine to introduce your children to reading. Our approach was "whatever works best" and we used a variety of book types and reading-related ...
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How to get 10-year-old to diversify his reading?
I'm just going to throw this out there. You say that he enjoys your reading to him. It reminds me of how I got my kids to start reading.
My husband and I read to our kids daily and at also at bedtime,...
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How to create learning opportunities for the toddler who is already *extremely* interested in books?
We've started trying to bring the stories alive by acting the stories and using props and toys.
For example:
We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Searching the house for different "animals" i.e. stuffed ...
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Do children start believing in fairies and magic after being read from a book? If yes, then how to respond to "but the book says it is true"?
Your question seems to about whether children can tell the difference between truth and fiction.
Children can tell the difference between truth and fiction.
Children reading any story will maybe day ...
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Securing books from toddler
Have you considered buying books for her age and putting those in the lower shelves? There are may toddler books water (or dribble) proof, and brightly colored.
When I was growing up, my father's ...
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Do children start believing in fairies and magic after being read from a book? If yes, then how to respond to "but the book says it is true"?
Taking a different approach to your question: Your premise is based on the assumption that a child will believe everything written in a book is true. (Also that children live in a dream world only if ...
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What do I do to get my nine-year old boy off books with pictures and onto books with text content?
You say you already read to your son at night. One option would be to read to him, but then say you've had enough and put the book down just as its getting exciting, and leave him to read on if he ...
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How do I make my kids love reading?
I'm a librarian. I think it should revolve around "fun". There is so many books with so many diffrent contents. There is better chance that children like reading if they find something they ...
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How to deal with the story books which indicate stealing to be okay/good?
When I was a child my parents read Grimm's fairy tales to me frequently. I remember having favorites, mostly the princessy ones, and asked for them a lot (though I don't remember choosing to re-read ...
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How to deal with the story books which indicate stealing to be okay/good?
At what age were you introduced to these kind of books? What was the book's impact on you at that time? How did your parents deal with these books?
I remember reading such fantasy books when I was ...
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What is the minimal age, at which "Starship troopers" the book is safe for a child?
The problem with this question is that there is no definitive answer, and just asking for opinions is a) not necessarily going to help you as all opinions could be correct for that individual, and b) ...
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How to deal with the story books which indicate stealing to be okay/good?
In my opinion there are far more bad parts in these fairy tales than just stealing: evil stepmothers, witches who eat children, people dying horrific deaths (mostly for punishments)... If such stories ...
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How to deal with the story books which indicate stealing to be okay/good?
Talk about it.
Even at two or three, these kind of moral discussions can be very educational (and entertaining). My three year old very much understands the idea that stealing is wrong; he'd ...
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