tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post4741613484092992478..comments2023-09-08T03:58:05.432-07:00Comments on Magdalena Ball: The Joy of Reading: is it really such a hard sell?Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-35339035765987239642011-09-01T06:01:48.754-07:002011-09-01T06:01:48.754-07:00I came across your post while looking for response...I came across your post while looking for responses to Jacobs' article. Today I posted about his thoughts and I mention your post as well. My take: it's possible that we can't really teach a love of reading, but maybe we can teach a willingness to take it on? You'll find the post here:<br /><br />http://siobhancurious.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/willing-to-read-and-write/siobhan curioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06291764631089279169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-78367567491019723442011-08-20T01:05:28.577-07:002011-08-20T01:05:28.577-07:00Well - our two teenagers grew up in more or less t...Well - our two teenagers grew up in more or less the same environment: our home! I say more or less because childrearing can never be identical for all the kids in the same home. They have different personalities, tendencies and so forth. They have a birth order. They have gender. They have peer influences, and they have a host of other similarities and differences that push them every which-way.<br />One of them reads like it's going out of fashion. The other acts like it already has. One reads paperbacks, the other samples on-screen. One loves fiction, the other thrives on fact. What did we do in their infancy? Yes, we read to them, but mostly we taught by example. We both read a lot. Different things sometimes. Our house is like a remainder warehouse - books everywhere. But one of our children hasn't taken on the 'love' - it might surface later, but for now there are more urgent things in that growing mind: the gathering of facts to fill a future.Rosanne Dinglihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297891545294681562noreply@blogger.com