BAH!! That is what I wanted to tell my 8 year old son when he told me "I want to be a hobo". We were discussing (o.k. so it was more like him crying and me telling him) why reading was important, and we were both trying to just get his homework done. Reading, the one subject that makes me break out in a cold sweat and my son curl up in a ball on the floor. So I ask, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Ergo the hobo comment. I should of known. I have asked that question too many times. So instead of saying BAH! I chuckle and say "Well too bad, because Mommy is not going to let you follow THAT dream. Pick something else."
So how do you motivate, without choking, your child to read. I do not want to scar him for the future and associate reading with me yelling and punishing, and him crying and getting frustrated. I need to find some creative constructive way to get him motivated to read. Perhaps I will mute his T.V. and make him read the closed captions that run along the bottom of the T.V., or just take away the T.V. altogether. Maybe some type of reward system. For every book you read you get half an hour of T.V. time. But do I really want to bribe him? I read to him, and he "pretends" to be interested. So anyone out there have any ideas?
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The first book I ever read for fun was called 'Alan Mendelsohn: Boy From Mars' (D. Manus Pinkwater). I was about his age (first or second grade).
ReplyDeleteIf he dreams of being a hobo, he could always read some of Jack London's short stories. That guy actually was a hobo for a year or two. He also sailed the south seas, panned for gold in the Yukon, and did any other number of cool things little boys dream of, writing all about it all the while.