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melanie
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My 9yo has a dozen chapter books at a time on his nightstand. He rarely finishes any of them, just reads some of one, some of another. I honestly don't think he even knows where he is in each one, there's no bookmarks or dog ears or anything. I think he just picks up what he feels like and starts reading. This drives me *insane*, , and my dh does the same thing, though not to the extent that the 9yo does. Anyway, should I push this issue at all? Have him finish a book at a time? Is that pushing my perfectionistic tendencies on him? Or just sigh and leave it alone and enable his ADD style of reading? He does have a book at a time going for our history reading, and I do make sure that he reads that a little each day, in order.
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Well, I rarely use bookmarks or dog ears.. I simply remember the page number. And I can also have several books going at once. I know I did both of those things at that age too.
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I guess I'm an ADD reader too. I think I have 6 books I am currently reading.  Actually, I once read that we should have 3 books going at one time. One challenging book that we really need to think about, one that is easily read for pure enjoyment, and one that is educational in content (or something like that).
Now, I do bookmark where I'm at and I get frustrated to no end when the kids pull the bookmarks out of my books. It doesn't really take that much effort to find where I was though.
I think, in answer to your question though, I wouldn't really push the issue with books he has chosen on his own to read. But books that you have assigned him to read, like history, are a different story. I might even assign a novel or something to make sure he is getting the whole idea of what a plot is. That's not to say he isn't already reading his books in order, but just to make sure.
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As someone who normally has a number of books on the go, some of which I do read out of order (I often peek at the end of a book, read a bit, check the front, poke around the middle and then settle down to reading it more or less in order), I'd advise leaving his leisure reading be.
It's never been a problem keeping track of what parts of the book I'd already read and what the plot of a book has been even when I haven't bothered with bookmarks.
The other thing to consider is that as a child I would have strongly resented being told how my leisure reading 'should' be done. Having my non-leisure reading controlled was at times annoying enough. I was the sort of person who'd fudge the school what-are-you-reading surveys on principle (only books from the school library read at certain times counted).
As long as your son does well enough with his assigned reading, I would leave well enough alone.
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"I often peek at the end of a book, read a bit, check the front, poke around the middle and then settle down to reading it more or less in order"
 Oh my goodness, peeking at the end! My anal-retentiveness can't stand it!
Ok, I'll leave the child be. I'll turn the other way, I won't say a thing. Except for the assigned reading. 
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I always have several books going, but I understand your concern. My ds, 11, is a real dipper. He dips and dabbles in all books and finishes none, and he is not ADHD. He especially loves encyclopedias and falls asleep with several spread out over his bed.
I worried and worried about this, and then he found Percy Jackson and has been devouring all of the books. Whew. So I would advise patience and continue looking for that perfect book.
Something that you might try, which I do for both boys, but especially for MY ADHD younger ds is small (and I mean small) prizes for finishing a book. I don't care much at all for external motivation, but it has really gotten younger ds over the reading hump. When he finishes a book, and this means a book that I consider challenging enough to warrant reward, he draws for a prize, which is something like "no room cleanup", pick next Netflix movie, "sleep in 30 minutes," silly cost-free things like that. Just a little pat on the back, really, but a real motivator for both to finish a book already.
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