Comments on: Kids and Books: Taking the Easy Way out http://www.meryl.net/2009/04/13/kids-and-books-taking-the-easy-way-out/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, social media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Meryl http://www.meryl.net/2009/04/13/kids-and-books-taking-the-easy-way-out/comment-page-1/#comment-810527 Meryl Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:03:46 +0000 http://www.meryl.net/?p=4560#comment-810527 Robin, it's great you are writing about the how and the process while you create. People can learn from that. George, sounds like a great kid you have there! I hope my youngest -- almost 6 -- will stay interested in reading. If he doesn't, it won't be because I didn't do my part. Robin, it’s great you are writing about the how and the process while you create. People can learn from that.

George, sounds like a great kid you have there! I hope my youngest — almost 6 — will stay interested in reading. If he doesn’t, it won’t be because I didn’t do my part.

]]> By: Tumblemoose http://www.meryl.net/2009/04/13/kids-and-books-taking-the-easy-way-out/comment-page-1/#comment-810514 Tumblemoose Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:01:54 +0000 http://www.meryl.net/?p=4560#comment-810514 Meryl, Ohh, you sent one straight to my heart here. I love books, libraries and reading. I've got a six year old daughter. I started buying her books before she was even born. I try to let her catch me reading a book whenever I can. I allow her to pick any of the books from my "library" and she will walk around with it, then sit on the couch and just look at the words. A couple weeks ago she attached herself to a Websters Unabridged Dictionary - the darned thing weighs almost as much as her! She lugged that thing everywhere and would sit down and look at it for as much as an hour at a time! The local thrift store sells books ridiculously cheap. 50 cents to a buck a pop. I'll go in there and spend $30 and get 40 books. I always get her several as well. I'll find some very old classics and all kinds of other treasures - you should see her face light up! Last week, I got a spontaneous: "Dad, I love books. They help you know things." Oh, brought a tear to my eye it did. Sorry for the long comment here, but as you can tell, I'm impassioned about the subject! George <abbr><em>Tumblemoose´s last blog post... <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TumblemooseProductions/~3/ZMMlZyA0SaI/" rel="nofollow">Vanity plates writing prompts</a></abbr></em> Meryl,

Ohh, you sent one straight to my heart here. I love books, libraries and reading.

I’ve got a six year old daughter. I started buying her books before she was even born. I try to let her catch me reading a book whenever I can. I allow her to pick any of the books from my “library” and she will walk around with it, then sit on the couch and just look at the words. A couple weeks ago she attached herself to a Websters Unabridged Dictionary – the darned thing weighs almost as much as her! She lugged that thing everywhere and would sit down and look at it for as much as an hour at a time!

The local thrift store sells books ridiculously cheap. 50 cents to a buck a pop. I’ll go in there and spend $30 and get 40 books. I always get her several as well. I’ll find some very old classics and all kinds of other treasures – you should see her face light up!

Last week, I got a spontaneous: “Dad, I love books. They help you know things.” Oh, brought a tear to my eye it did.

Sorry for the long comment here, but as you can tell, I’m impassioned about the subject!

George

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]]> By: Robin Rice http://www.meryl.net/2009/04/13/kids-and-books-taking-the-easy-way-out/comment-page-1/#comment-810511 Robin Rice Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:18:20 +0000 http://www.meryl.net/?p=4560#comment-810511 Oh boy oh girl, Meryl, you have me going here. My whole life--and I do mean whole life--is dedicated to this right now. As you might know, http://www.MaydenChronicles.com is my passion. I'm writing the very best story I can, within the genre that teens (and adults) love, Magical Fiction. And I'm creating videos on the writing process after each chapter post, which occurs about every ten days. In short, I'm doing it, and showing how I do it... so that hopefully kids will keep reading and start writing, too. We have a whole series of videos on "so you want to write a book" which I hope inspires even more. Bottom line is, you can preach all you want (I know YOU are not!) about what should be read, but why not meet kids where they are? Because we do know where they are. By the way, I'm not dumbing down for this story, either. It is going to take on some pretty hefty ideas...we have a current argument about the overt themes of good and bad within human nature that is just lovely to listen to among readers/commenters. So thanks, thanks, thanks for this post, and reading, and caring! It really shows. And send your kids on over. Heck, come on over yourself! I promise fun, decent writing and great conversation. Oh boy oh girl, Meryl, you have me going here. My whole life–and I do mean whole life–is dedicated to this right now. As you might know, http://www.MaydenChronicles.com is my passion. I’m writing the very best story I can, within the genre that teens (and adults) love, Magical Fiction. And I’m creating videos on the writing process after each chapter post, which occurs about every ten days. In short, I’m doing it, and showing how I do it… so that hopefully kids will keep reading and start writing, too. We have a whole series of videos on “so you want to write a book” which I hope inspires even more. Bottom line is, you can preach all you want (I know YOU are not!) about what should be read, but why not meet kids where they are? Because we do know where they are.

By the way, I’m not dumbing down for this story, either. It is going to take on some pretty hefty ideas…we have a current argument about the overt themes of good and bad within human nature that is just lovely to listen to among readers/commenters.

So thanks, thanks, thanks for this post, and reading, and caring! It really shows. And send your kids on over. Heck, come on over yourself! I promise fun, decent writing and great conversation.

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