Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Reading... it's something that I hated as a kid. It's not that I couldn't do it; it's just that I had no patience for it and found myself frustrated time and again whenever I was required to read a book for school. I remember all too well sitting down on the couch in the living room with my mom when I was a kid and taking forever to get through a short, large-printed book meant for first graders. I oftentimes refused to read or what struggle through it... and wind up cramming right before a test or sometimes watching the movie version, hoping to do well enough. Somehow, I survived.
Must to my pleasant, I grew more fond of reading as I got older, although I still found some of the books we had to read in high school to be dreadfully boring. Once I hit college, though, I was pleasantly surprised to find that we were reading things that were actually interesting and recent, not things that were written by people from at least a hundred years ago. Since then, I have taken to reading many books for pleasure and am proud to say now that reading is one of my favorite past times. I only wish I had had that pleasant when I was younger. Because I value reading so much, it is something I intend to stress with my own children one day. I want to read to them when they are very young and encourage them to read instead of watch TV. In my humble opinion, there are too many junk shows on TV nowadays between all of the horrible, relentless commercials, and I would rather my children learn something, not just vegetate in front of a screen for hours on end, watching shows that probably lower their intelligence instead of stimulating it.
posted by Sindie 12:37 PM
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