Fun study on children reading fiction (because they want to)

swag

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Wed May-10-06 10:45 AM
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Fun study on children reading fiction (because they want to)

via Mark Thoma

Abstract:
This paper investigates the reading of fiction books by 15-year-olds in 18 OECD countries. It appears that girls read fiction books more often than boys, whereas boys read comic books more often than girls. The intensity by which children read fiction books is influenced by parental education, family structure, and the number of books and TVs at home. Reading comic books does not affect the reading of fiction books. Parents who want their children to read fiction books frequently should have a lot of books at home and at most one television.

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eyesroll

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Wed May-10-06 10:50 AM
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1. I guess my home qualifies!

One television, lots of books.

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skygazer

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Wed May-10-06 10:50 AM
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2. I don't get people who don't read

For one thing, what the hell do they do in the bathroom?

I had a friend who had 6 kids and she'd punish them by making them read a book! That blew my mind. And one day when I babysat for her kids, I forgot to bring a book and I couldn't find a single, solitary thing to read in that house. Not a book, not a magazine or a newspaper, not a kid's book or a comic book. Not even a lousy coloring book!

Very sad. My house was filled with books when I was a kid and it still is.

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redqueen

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Wed May-10-06 10:55 AM
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3. OMG... reading as *punishment*?

What has the world come to?

I keep finding myself thinking... "come on, bird flu!"

:( :( :(

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swag

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Wed May-10-06 11:09 AM
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4. I start to feel awful when I am denied reading for a period of time,

usually while on an especially involving business trip or family visit.

I feel my brain liquifying and hear my sentence structure starting to go.

I was once trapped in a TV-laden luxury condo in Palm Springs for a few days with nothing to read but a Jimmy Buffett memoir that was on the mantle. Since that trip, I always travel with more books than I can get through on the trip.

I love taking the bus to work because the ride provides valuable reading time.

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skygazer

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Wed May-10-06 11:13 AM
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5. I'm the same way

I bring a book everywhere I go, even if I don't think I'll get a chance to read. Just in case. Last week, we took some recycling to the recycling center and in the five minutes it took my SO to carry the bags to the window and get his money, I read a couple of pages.

I brought 3 hardcover library books with me when I hitchhiked across the country in '98. :rofl: They made my pack quite heavy but it was worth it when I'd sit under a bridge in the evening and get some reading in by flashlight.

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LeftyMom

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Wed May-10-06 11:21 AM
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6. How sad.

My stepfather used to take my books away when he was mad at me, as grounding me was little punishment when I could hang out in my room and catch up on my reading. He actually called the school and county libraries to try to stop me from checking out books for the duration of my punishment once- thier response, though better worded, amounted to "fuck off."

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hunter

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Wed May-10-06 12:18 PM
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7. My kids are ALWAYS reading.

Sometimes I have to chase them out of the house.

Go outside! Run around! Play some basketball!

We resisted video games for a long time, but it was hard on them. Not having a PS-2 or X-Box makes you abnormal in modern America.

Fortunately they'd mostly rather read and play basketball than play video games or watch television.

My only parenting tip is that we read to them quite a bit even when they were babies, and my wife and I read a lot ourselves.

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