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"HellPhyre" <HellPhyre113.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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 > "Anne Elizabeth Baldwin" <anneb.DeleteThis@aloha.net> wrote in message
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  > > <mct.DeleteThis@no.more.spam.cs.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
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  > > ay/20030828/en_bo_usatoday/11720300
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   > > > Review of a book called "How to Get Your Child to Love Reading".
   > > >
   > > > In truth, perhaps this book would be better for giving to
   > > > non-ABML Moms who ask ABML Moms how they do it, since
   > > > bookworm-age is already in full swing around here... <g>
  > >
  > > I've been trying to figure out how they fill a whole book on that
  > > subject. <bemused smile>
  > >
  > > It's just... I noticed what my parents did to encourage me to read.
  > > They did two simple things: they read to me, and they read to
  > > themselves for fun. The first got me used to reading. The second made
  > > it clear this wasn't "just kid's stuff" that I'd "grow out of" when I
  > > grew up.
  > >
  > > That's all they did. That's all it took, too, since it was
  > > certainly effective. <BIG SMILE, REALLY BIG GRIN>
  > >
  > >
  > > Anne
  > > Elizabeth
  > > Baldwin
  > >
  > >
   > > > Megan
   > > > Pointkeeper o' the Moment
<font color=brown>   > > > Keeper of the FAQ: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mct/abml/</font" target="_blank">http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mct/abml/</font</a>>
   > > > Acolyte to the God of Grilled-SPAM
 >
 > My parents bought me books on dinosaurs. Since they could no longer
 > pronounce the names- I had to read and that was at about age 2 or 3.
 > Mother brought me to this pediatric speech pathologist- becuase I
 > couldn't hear as a toddler <now I don't want to hear- today's music>

I can't blame you there. I turn off my hearing aids for the vast
majority of it, too. <chuckle, SMILE> No, I don't take them off, I just
turn them off! <REALLY BIG GRIN>

 > so this woman asks if I could talk...
 > Mother: What's the first feathered dinosaur?
 > lil 'Phyre: Archeapteryx silly!
 > Woman: <drops her teeth>

<BURST OF LAUGHTER> She asked for it! <REALLY BIG GRIN, HUMONGOUS GRIN>

 > Additionally, I had already memorized "Who will play with little
 > dinosaur" and they couldn't cheat and skip parts. Of course the
 > obsession also lead to them being dragged into DC just to go to the
 > Natural History museum's third floor.

<REALLY BIG GRIN> I hope they had the presence of mind not to be too
unhappy about that. There are a _LOT_ worse places a kid can drag you
into, in my opinion, at least. <REALLY BIG GRIN>


Anne
Elizabeth
Baldwin


 > 'Phyre
 > AIM:HellPhyre87
 > Mother tells me I was cute then...<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->