Mom and I are constantly receiving suggestions / support / hints for how to get our children to read. We boggle at the idea because what we struggle with is getting the kids (especially Corwin) to do things other than read. We have already forbidden him from taking reading material in to the bathroom or he would have “ring butt” from sitting too long. Corwin spends more time reading in the morning then he does actually getting ready for school which makes him chronically on the edge of late. The only thing that saves him now is that with school orchestra Mom has to drive him in most of the time. But I am working him. This morning I snuck in to his room while he was allegedly getting dressed to find him sitting on his bed in his underwear, his pants around his ankles, reading. I just yelled “CORWIN!” as loud as I could at him and was rewarded with seeing him so startled he literally hurled the book part way across the room. A definite two-fer, putting a stop to the reading and providing him with an adrenaline boost to keep him moving quickly.
I LOVE this story! Esp. the part about the pants around his ankles, LOL!
