From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Chris Mark"  wrote in message   
   news:20040207113017.20033.00001633@mb-m17.aol.com...   
      
   > As far as teaching kids to read today, I think it is still true that   
   children   
   > tend to immitate their parents; if mom and dad read, then that's what the   
   kids   
   > will do.   
      
   Well, Chris, that's one point of view.  But neither of my parents ever read   
   except when the bills came, and I grew up with a book grafted to my hand.   
   (I've got one right now that's making me anxious to get off this computer.)   
   On the other hand, I've raised three kids and two of them are of the "I like   
   to read...sometimes when I have a lot of spare time" variety while the other   
   one almost reads the spots off the pages of my books, plus every other book   
   available to her.   There does not seem to be a direct correlation in my   
   personal experience, but I would have thought there SHOULD be.   
      
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