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Kids and reading

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Tirednhopeful · 07/11/2025 20:49

Anyone have a kid who can read well but won’t? My seven year old just seems so uninterested even though they’re a great reader. I don’t get it! Will it change??

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Tirednhopeful · 08/11/2025 11:36

Tirednhopeful · 08/11/2025 11:34

Already do this actually - they’re allowed to stay up to read, but never do!

Sorry, that should say, my eldest absolutely does! Just not younger!

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rainbowsandraspberrygin · 09/11/2025 14:36

Tirednhopeful · 08/11/2025 07:42

reassuring, thank you! What age was yours when it changed?

About 8-9

rainbowsandraspberrygin · 09/11/2025 14:39

Mine loves beano comic too if that helps.

also loved baking at the time so would get them to read recipe to me as there was a “reason” to read. I didn’t make a thing of it but just said - what’s next on the list, I’ve got sticky hands can you just read it out?

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DelurkingAJ · 09/11/2025 14:40

Giving some longer term hope. DSis didn’t read, she just couldn’t see the point (perfectly capable). Went on holiday aged 15 with friends and appeared in my room demanding a ‘fun book’ so she had one. I handed her The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Floodgates open. She has a degree in English Lit and is much better read than me these days (I was the archetypal child bookworm).

frozendaisy · 09/11/2025 14:44

@Tirednhopeful
He started to read the first Harry potters about 8 ish (yes he had to read the ones of the films he had seen)
through to about aged 10 ish for final one

Tirednhopeful · 09/11/2025 17:59

DelurkingAJ · 09/11/2025 14:40

Giving some longer term hope. DSis didn’t read, she just couldn’t see the point (perfectly capable). Went on holiday aged 15 with friends and appeared in my room demanding a ‘fun book’ so she had one. I handed her The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Floodgates open. She has a degree in English Lit and is much better read than me these days (I was the archetypal child bookworm).

Brilliant! Love this

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Tirednhopeful · 09/11/2025 17:59

frozendaisy · 09/11/2025 14:44

@Tirednhopeful
He started to read the first Harry potters about 8 ish (yes he had to read the ones of the films he had seen)
through to about aged 10 ish for final one

Amazing, thanks!

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Nameyname012 · 09/11/2025 19:02

Very normal IMO.

My DD was the same. Was the second in her class to become a "free reader", but took until the summer holidays after year 3 (so a couple of months after she turned 8) to finally find a series she wanted to read by herself (Daisy and the trouble with... books). Had tried sooo many before then!

What worked in the end was that I started reading it and she was so hooked that she had to carry on reading it after I'd read a couple of chapters.

She loves reading now, however is quite fussy and I do often still have to start a book for her as she finds it quite hard to get past the slowness of the first couple of chapters.

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