A ranty little post......

because I can. So, a little background first off. My partner worked with this family who was looking for a child care giver to help with their child's english, it was their third language. She worked with him for 2-ish year before handing him off to me because she gained a full time job and couldn't take the extra hours. Now, it's been almost fours years since we've worked with him and that's really not what I'm ranting about. What I'm ranting about is today when I worked with him we had a small battle of wills about what work his mother sat out for him. The work was to read one chapter of a really easy chapter book.

The Missing Mummy by Ron Roy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A cute little mystery book. It held a good bit of suspense for a small book. I'd read it again with another child or read another of the series without hesitation.

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Now, he only had to read one chapter. It was six pages and he fought tooth and nail not to read. That bothered me the most. I love reading. I would read over most anything else in all honesty and here is a child that is trying to refuse to read! What in the world is going on with children today? I know things are going digital but that shouldn't mean you don't want to read. Reading helped me escape a lot of the time because I know I didn't have a lot of toys and what not sometimes to play with when I was eight or whatever. I always had books though. But anymore children don't even seem to be on their grade level with reading. I know english isn't his first or even second language but he's been working with us enough to have a firm hold on it and should want to read if only just because.

I'm really sad that children have become like this though. Parents are getting their children into reading (his are trying really really hard to) and schools seem to not be pushing to try to get kids interested in reading like we used to be.

So, that's my little rant. I hate that children don't have the drive to read and there are some really fantastically good books out there to read too!