TECHFLAT

Like most parents, I wish for my youngest son to become interested with reading. We’ve got this All Star Sports Revolving Bookcase stacked with several books and we try our best to monitor and make sure that they spend time reading these. While my son was younger, this wasn’t a problem because the books had really interesting pictures in them. But as he grew up, the pictures are replaced with texts and I get the feeling that my son’s not motivated enough to read these.

I have no problem with him reading stuff off the internet though and he gorges information on wiki sites like a sponge. For someone so young, he’s actually very adept with this and with any kind of technology. He is wishing to get a cellular phone for his birthday but his father believes he’s still young to own one. I believe that you can’t fight technology, but it’s not all there is to it.

I made him a deal one time that if he can read enough books for the year, I may consider getting him a cellphone for Christmas. Maybe that will motivate him enough but so far, he’s still not halfway up his reading list.

How do you motivate your kids to read?

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