How can we encourage our children to learn to enjoy reading?
Q. As a college teacher, sadly, I see many high school graduates pass my way who have great difficulty reading any book, text or otherwise. They often show a great distain for reading. This includes material presented on-line.
I have seen how the love for reading developed early in childhood carries over to make a person an effective reader of material necessary to function and perform adequately in our modern society. I also know that it takes time and practice to become an effective reader, thus, the time and conditions necessary to integrate readership into ones life involve more than just the time spent and text material supplied in school.
As parents, what techniques have you used at home to encourage and continue to encourage your children to develop a love for reading?
I have seen how the love for reading developed early in childhood carries over to make a person an effective reader of material necessary to function and perform adequately in our modern society. I also know that it takes time and practice to become an effective reader, thus, the time and conditions necessary to integrate readership into ones life involve more than just the time spent and text material supplied in school.
As parents, what techniques have you used at home to encourage and continue to encourage your children to develop a love for reading?
A. Others have said it already, but I'm going to repeat it. Parents should start reading to their children practically from the day they are born. Also, keep the kids away from the television, at least until they are old enough to read and know that books are SO much better.
As Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas sang,
"The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set�
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all the shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink�
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK�HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY...USED...TO...READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic takes
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy�Winkle and�
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How The Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole�
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks�
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something good to read.
And once they start�oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hears. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
P.S. Regarding Mike Teavee,
We very much regret that we
Shall simply have to wait and see
If we can get him back his height.
But if we can't�it serves him right."
As Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas sang,
"The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set�
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all the shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink�
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK�HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY...USED...TO...READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic takes
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy�Winkle and�
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How The Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole�
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks�
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something good to read.
And once they start�oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hears. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
P.S. Regarding Mike Teavee,
We very much regret that we
Shall simply have to wait and see
If we can get him back his height.
But if we can't�it serves him right."
What ideas about family and marriage appear in today's mass culture?
Q. What affect does tv, media and society have on the modern american family?
A. This is how television portrays the modern american family:
1. They live in an 3 bath, 3 bedroom home.
2. They live in a friendly, children safe neighborhood.
3. They live in or around the city.
4. It consist of a mother, father, son, and daughter.
5. The mother stays with the kids at the house.
6. The father works.
7. They make around 350,000 a year.
8. They intend to put their children through college
But in reality, the average american family simply makes it by every month by the skin of their teeth. It's not the luxury life as portrayed by the media.
1. They live in an 3 bath, 3 bedroom home.
2. They live in a friendly, children safe neighborhood.
3. They live in or around the city.
4. It consist of a mother, father, son, and daughter.
5. The mother stays with the kids at the house.
6. The father works.
7. They make around 350,000 a year.
8. They intend to put their children through college
But in reality, the average american family simply makes it by every month by the skin of their teeth. It's not the luxury life as portrayed by the media.
What should i do to turn my bedroom into a 'ninja' hideout?
Q. NOT A KID!
What decorating tips do you have?
What decorating tips do you have?
A. You can have a black and white theme with a modern twist or anything that floats your boat.
Maybe some decorating ninja stars, katana, this site has a lot of decorating things you can use for your room or yourself :D
Maybe some decorating ninja stars, katana, this site has a lot of decorating things you can use for your room or yourself :D
How do the people of poor underdeveloped African nations even survive?
Q. With barely enough water(not even clean), food, and shelter, how can women in those nations even think of producing more offspring, only to have their kids suffer in horrible conditions like the ones on those commercials? I'm just amazed at how these people still exist today and aren't extinct yet!
A. My aunt just got back from Ethiopia, and she says it's nothing liek we imagine - The women there have no rights. In modern western society, when a woman says no to sex, usually the guy backs off and accepts this - in african countries the men rule the women, and they don't have4 to be married. Because these women have absoluitely nothing, they are on the streets and often sell their bodies for money for food, clothing,etc... they'll share a 'house' (the whole house will be about the size of the average western bedroom - ie small) with 3 or four other families, so tehre could be up to 12 people in the house. These women have children because they have no choice - they can't control the men, there's no birth control, and they can't afford the pill for abortians. You'd be surprised how many people die in childbirth, too... When you say there isn't enough water - there is. There's more water per person in Africa than there is in London, it's just it's not clean. Most of the food they have they grow themselves, and so in a community they are very self-sufficient. Try looking ip the family attitudes of some tribes like the Kibbutz - it's rather interesting how their beliefs and culture work. In some tribes, they encourage sexual activity with children from the age of 8, because many children don't like past 30, so the men try to get as many children as possible - children is richness, basically (kind of like having a lot of cars)
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