tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post1396106402481299471..comments2023-10-24T04:05:24.108-04:00Comments on The Bluestocking Belle: Raising Discriminating ReadersEllen, the Bluestocking Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328085786533131608noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-57899099379448402012010-10-05T11:56:18.947-04:002010-10-05T11:56:18.947-04:00I just wanted to comment on the video games. I hav...I just wanted to comment on the video games. I have several game systems but I don't allow my boys to play them at all during the spring, summer and fall. In the winter it is allowed with limits. The Wii is actually my favorite because it has a lot of active games and can easily be played as a family. It really is fun, but all the games I have are active and designed to be played as a family. If I had to pick what to keep it would be the Wii and the DS (also the only systems I bought myself). There has never been any books about underwear or bodily functions in my house (it is hard enough to teach boys to act as gentelmen). They read for thier lessons and we have quiet reading every evening, but they don't read often on thier own. They do; however, ask to be read to from great books so often that I have to tell them no several times a day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-17816893539231078952010-10-04T17:58:10.007-04:002010-10-04T17:58:10.007-04:00Wow! Thank you for the link. I was about to comm...Wow! Thank you for the link. I was about to comment on your commentary without reading the article, then clicked over. Glad I did. I was going to comment that the reading gap between boys and girls might be because of all the video games kids have. I have a friend with two boys and a girl. The girl loves to read, write, draw. The boys? Wii. Nonstop. Even their "imaginitive play" revolves around Mario. We don't have a Wii. Or any playstation. Because I know how hard it is to compete with the blinking lights and control sticks. I myself have to discipline myself with the computer. This blog stuff is a lot of fun, but it's not my family. It's not a good book. As hard as it is for me to resist stepping to the computer to check for messages, with all my grown-up self discipline, how much harder must it be for kids who have none at all. <br /><br />We may get some sort of game station when the kids are older. Much older. Once the kids have learned to love to read. Take away everything but the books, and they will learn to love them. That's my hope, at least.Books For Breakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02186942675406365328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-21830585887382431332010-09-30T20:58:41.461-04:002010-09-30T20:58:41.461-04:00Great post! Thanks for drawing my attention to thi...Great post! Thanks for drawing my attention to this article!Rebecca Ingram Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16122233191665540237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-26689770433796443262010-09-29T16:01:55.699-04:002010-09-29T16:01:55.699-04:00Well said! I'm going to link to this on a post...Well said! I'm going to link to this on a post I recently published on teaching reading to our kids. ~KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-90562942686687510812010-09-28T23:38:33.842-04:002010-09-28T23:38:33.842-04:00You were right, the article *is* that good. And so...You were right, the article *is* that good. And so is your commentary! I found it particularly interesting that <i>everyone's</i> boys are suffering, but then he threw in at the end: not the homeschooled kids.Ritsumeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283473059747130843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-36467671517234374392010-09-28T23:07:50.399-04:002010-09-28T23:07:50.399-04:00Marvellous, marvellous article. Thanks, Ellen.Marvellous, marvellous article. Thanks, Ellen.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09573473465011631325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-2297661968355457022010-09-28T20:33:33.298-04:002010-09-28T20:33:33.298-04:00Well said...I second each and every of your senten...Well said...I second each and every of your sentences.<br />Call me snob, but I detest those cheap books. There is a faulty reasoning thinking that "whatever as long as they read".<br />I'm not going to say that we haven't read and read some books that are not totally twaddle free, but I do NEVER read the Barbie, Little Pony, CareBears, Scooby Doo, even if they insist in bringing them from the library. I simply don't read them. Sometimes we start a book that it's not so good...soon they realize it's junk. When we read wholesome literature, they ask for it again and again, and it's not necessary easy, it has difficult words, but it is the right diet. Don't feed them junk food just to be sure they eat, soon they will be obese...same with books, even if sometimes they have some candy!Silviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249978624747684879noreply@blogger.com