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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I mean I did that and it was, my parents would get mad if they caught me reading past my bedtime. I also had to beg for new books. And they supported me reading just…not that much
Edit: guys not everything is some 5d chess move, your comments are very repetitive. Sometimes parents want their kids to sleep at night. And sometimes parents want to spend their money on things like food and housing instead of entirely on books.
I forbade my son to read my science and history books. Guess what happened when I “didn’t notice”…..😎
the rebellion will never be stopped! this is the way.
The greatest gift my mother gave me was reading to us at an early age and then the gift of reading. Grew up in a small town. We were very religious but we could go to the library and read basically anything. Saved my life. Great parenting you have!
How precious is that!!😊
I used to do this as a kid. It didn’t help my already poor eyesight to read in the dark like that.
I remember the times when I used to not sleep the whole night, and my mom would come to wake me up for school and say something like: “Oh! It must be quite a good book for you to wake up so early just to read some. ” I’m still not sure if that was sarcasm. 😄
Just till the end of this chapter, ok end of this chapter, oopps finished the book. Hopefully, she never grows out of it. I haven’t. My mother hasn’t either. The other day she said she was tired and I asked why, she said couldn’t put my book down.
It’s getting bot in here
I wish my parents were like this. When I was a kid and they caught me doing this, they yelled at me and took my books away. I stopped reading for fun because of it. Let your kids read!! It’s better than other things they could be doing, I promise.
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By that age I knew reading under the covers was an act of rebellion because my parents would always take the flashlights I had squirreled away for it. Good on this dad.
Fight the power! And get lost in a good book!
That girl is going to be so disappointed and perplexed when she becomes a young woman…
As a parent who plans on encouraging my daughter to read in the coming years, does anybody have a good flashlight recommendation?
My parents thought this was a sick hack too. Until I started falling asleep in class because I was reading from 10pm to 4am every night
This is us. The reading light is actually an LED lamp (multiple brightness levels so he can turn it down at night) that is clamped to his bed. He loves to read, has been “sneaking” reading in since forever – he’s 12 now. When he was really young I’d fall asleep reading to him and he’d “read” the book out loud for me.
We’d much rather he sneak some reading in than be on an electronic device.
Jokes on you, she replaces the battery every week and your battery bill is so high because you are both throwing away half full batteries
I read a lot as a kid! Would stay up all night with a good book!
Problem was I started falling asleep in class. I’ll never forget the pained look on my teacher’s face as she asked my mom if I could read a little less 😅
lmao
Oh hey I did that too, too bad my parents would instead open the door, destroy my book and flashlight where they could and yell at me for an hour instead.
Nobody? Okay? U-hum. “Shut up, Rebecca, this didn’t happen.”