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One reason I was drawn to CM/RL is because I love to read (and read a loud) living books. But what do you do when that love is not transfered to your dc? I think it is almost blasphemous that my 2 older ds don't like to read!  They are 14 1/2 and 11 and the love of reading has not been passed on. They love to listen to me or dh read but they themselves do not pick up books for pleasure. They both are terrible spellers and they have a much lower vocabulary than their sisters who love to read. I have tried to explain all of this to them, but they don't care. They just don't enjoy this. Did I do something wrong? I wanted them to enjoy reading so much.  Anyone else have dc like this? BTW, both boys took longer than average to learn to read (my 14 year old was 12 before he could read more than an easy reader) but I don't know if that matters.
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Oh, Lisa, I don't know -- but my littles DEFINITELY love me reading to them rather than doing it themselves ... and we're not helping by reading things for them whenever they ask "what does this say" because we're usually doing about a dozen things at once and don't stop to have them read it!  .....
So, no answers -- but lots of commiseration!
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Hmm.. I don't have any children exactly like that, but my second son definitely doesn't have as big a love of reading as my oldest. They both read for pleasure regularly, but my second son loves to be very active -- crafting, playing outside, sports, building -- hands on stuff. Your two oldest sons don't read for pleasure -- what *do* they do for pleasure? Is there an activity that they enjoy that they could learn more about/improve their skill in if they read books or websites about it?
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They both are very active, outdoors types. They will read a bit to find out how to build something but they would much rather be outside shooting guns, climbing trees, mowing, building stuff, fishing, etc.
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Well, since they do turn to books when in need , I wouldn't worry about it. As long as they're willing to listen to books, then they're being exposed to great literature. Maybe at some point you'll hit a genre or topic that they find fascinating (mysteries, sci-fi, Church history...) and they will read happily on their own.
If it's any consolation, I didn't really read much until I had children. I read in junior high, but it was mostly Judy Blume and the like. Not exactly great reading. Everything else I read was for school. Until I had children.  Now I read to the kids and on my own. 
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Ok my oldest did not like to read. I had no idea why. She actually learned to read early but hit a wall in about 4th grade (about when the books get longer and the print size smaller). She never read a book cover to cover beyond the picture books except a rare occassion and then she usually only read the interesting parts or she read when it was required. It seemed to take her forever to do what should have been rather short assignments. She did have trouble spelling. When we discovered my 2nd dd serious vision problems, we had this same doc eventually test everyone in the family (easier to have him do the eye exams while we were there for other dd than to go back to our earlier doc). Turns out this dd had some vision issues as well - and after the fact told me she got sick to her stomach after about 20 minutes of reading. (Gee, I wonder why she hated reading ). We had always continued family read alouds so that is how we slipped in a lot of classics - and she really enjoyed these read alouds, so it wasn't that she wasn't interested in the books themselves. Nor did she have trouble with an ability to read. She was an excellent reader, she just didn't want to have to strain her eyes to read. Of course she had no ideas it was vision related, and neither did we at the time. She was about 16 when we finally got the problem mostly corrected and she just began to pick up and read a lot more stuff just for fun her senior year of high school. She still tends to pick short books and does better with big print.
The one author she actually really loved in high school was Shakespeare - and we actually had gotten a large print edition (Cliffs Complete, actually for some of the vocab. definitions being more convenient to look up). I've often wondered if she would have taken more to reading if we had found more large print books. Just an idea.
Some of my boys are far sighted so they need reading glasses. This is harder to detect as well and if you have to struggle to see close up, well, reading isn't going to be much fun.
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My brother was not a reader despite growing up in a 'reading house'. Then when he turned 14 something seemed to click and he started spending all his lunch hours in the library and now as an adult is always reading every spare moment. Don't give up hope yet.
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