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More than 60 percent of parents in the survey said they do not believe their child loses reading skills over the summer.
On average, parents say their child spends 17.4 hours/week watching TV or playing video games, 16.7 hours/week playing outside and only 5.9 hours/week reading.
Read the article here: https://www.valleynewslive.com/story/25808005/new-survey-only-17-percent-of-parents-believe-reading-is-top-priority-during-the-summer-kids-spend-nearly-triple-the-time-playing-video-games-or
Articles like this just make me cringe. How can you not think kids lose ground when they have 2-3 months off and you don't encourage/prioritize some sort of academic practice? I am the first one to say play is important, but why do we equate reading to eating vegetables (and why is eating veggies a "bad" thing?)? What do you do to encourage reading, math practice or otherwise prevent 'summer slide' from happening to the skills your child (and you!) worked so hard to develop during the school year?
On average, parents say their child spends 17.4 hours/week watching TV or playing video games, 16.7 hours/week playing outside and only 5.9 hours/week reading.
Read the article here: https://www.valleynewslive.com/story/25808005/new-survey-only-17-percent-of-parents-believe-reading-is-top-priority-during-the-summer-kids-spend-nearly-triple-the-time-playing-video-games-or
Articles like this just make me cringe. How can you not think kids lose ground when they have 2-3 months off and you don't encourage/prioritize some sort of academic practice? I am the first one to say play is important, but why do we equate reading to eating vegetables (and why is eating veggies a "bad" thing?)? What do you do to encourage reading, math practice or otherwise prevent 'summer slide' from happening to the skills your child (and you!) worked so hard to develop during the school year?
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Re: Article: reading is not a priority
She loves to read and I only hope to encourage that as she grows up
Reading shouldn't be a chore. It should be fun.
That makes me sad too. I love to read and am hoping my kids develop that love too.
I think we read together a bit more during the summer. Bed time is still early, but we give it a little flexibility because we're not getting up at the crack of dawn for school. The girls love chapter books, so that's what I read to them before bed. DS has a billion board books that we do together and now that DD1 can read, she reads to the other two. DD1 also makes a little "newspaper" of our recent events each week. It is super cute.
We need to work on keeping math alive over the summer. I have a few workbooks, but I'll admit we focus more on reading than math and sciences.
C 7.16.2008 | L 11.12.2010 | A 3.18.2013
My parents rarely gave us screen time, and when they did, we had timers set for 30 minutes (sometimes an hour when we were older), and they always monitored what we did. I think knowing it wasn't an option was good for us, we just found other things to do. I don't know how I'll handle it when I have older kids, though.
I love to read to do this day, and DD Just learned to read toward the end of the school year so I don't want her to lose the little bit she does know already. She sat pool side on Monday just reading. It made me so happy. I try and have read me one book a day, and I read several books throughout the day to the kids. There's nothing like getting lost in a book.