Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Funny, we followed exactly the same strategy with our children as what Daniel describes. Always reading to them at night, even when they were infants. I remember once I had my then 1-year old son with me on a visit to Denmark and had forgotten to bring baby books. It didn't matter--I just read him the just-published memoirs of a former Danish prime minister. This went on until well after he could read by himself. Now they are 16 and 11, and both read A LOT. Especially my 11-year old daughter is always ready to go and raid the local Waterstone's. I may have made some mistakes in parenting, I am sure I have, but this is one thing I have done right. Nathan Daniel Ridings wrote: > Actually, Mark, I think our kids are about the same as they are anywhere. > > We are just very lucky. Partly, we (my wife and I) have had a > consistent and relentless policy of reading from the very beginning. > When they were younger, we'd read for them every single evening. It > was the night-time ritual. Everything from kiddy books (Richard > Scarry) to "chapter books" (full length books), every evening for > about 45 minutes. They like books. > > My daughter's favorite poet is Karin Boye: > > http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kboye.htm > > Book in her backpack? Impossible to say. She borrows stacks at a time > from the library (10 to 15). > > But the newspaper bit is something I'll have to give our local paper > credit for. They realized that they were going to miss the young > reading public if they didn't do something. So they dedicated a > full-page everyday on weekdays and a double page on week-ends to kids. > > It's not only dedicated to kids, it's entirely written, edited and > composed by kids. Every six months they change "editorial teams". They > put out an ad and young people can apply, explaining why they want to > be on the editorial team and writing an essay to demonstrate their > skill. > > They must have a an editor with his or her finger on the pulse of > youth. They have consistently, for years, put together good teams. > > Here's the current editorial group: > > http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=535 > > They have their own facilities at the newspaper offices. They're made > to feel like part of the team (and the _are_). > > Every morning all three of my children have gone straight for that > page as soon as they come into the kitchen. The page is called > "Graffiti", but that's just a title. > > As they grow older the kids started turning to other pages of the same > paper. I appreciate that kind of marketing. They have been working on > their audience in sympathetic way and have won them over. > > So in our case, I have to give a lot of credit to the local newspaper. > Just a small-town rag (G?teborg is about the size of St. Louis, > smaller if anything), but they played their cards right this time. > > I am one of many parents who really appreciate their work. They're > making money on it too, I'm sure. > > Daniel > > > On 11/15/05, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >>On 11/14/05 6:18 PM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> typed: >> >> >>>I am amazed to find a young person apparently reading a newspaper -- >>>perhaps >>>it is the beautiful light. >>> >>>bill h >>> >>> >> >>In Europe I think people read, I think we win (US) in the anti >>intellectualism department and non valuing of education. >>AND we rule the world! >>Lets hope the burgeoning Visigoths and the ravishing hoards on horseback >>from the East give us a hand in the smarts department. >>How many kids do you know over here have a favorite Poet? A book in their >>backpack they are reading not a textbook. A favorite author? I bet many of >>us cant think of one. And if we do he gets beat up every day on the way >>home >>from school. >> >> >>Albert Brooks being beat up by the bully in the playground: >>"Okay, take this: You'll never leave South Boston and I'm going to see the >>whole damn world. You'll never know the pleasure of writing a graceful >>sentence or having an original thought. Think about it." >>Broadcast News >> >> >>Mark Rabiner >>Photography >>Portland Oregon >>http://rabinergroup.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Bicycle project: http://www.fotocycle.nl Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com