12 year old dd reads for pleasure for on average an hour at. Aibu to think this is the norm?

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BTW this is not a boasting post. I know more kids will read much more, I'm just asking out of curiosity as I would like her reading more now that winter is coming in.

I think more of a brag would be ‘my 12 year old does dishes for pleasure and I haven’t had to wash up for 18 months’ 😂

I was going to say the same thing. If someone is doing something for pleasure then surely they will do as much of it as they want to. Forcing them to do more is counterproductive.
One of my kids would read all day- just loves it. The other not so much...but hey, we cant all be book worms. Just let her read as much as she wants to.

This.

What an odd thread this is.

My 12 year old DS does not enjoy reading . Needs pushing to pick up a book but reads perhaps an hour or 2 a week. I blame audiobooks and video games.
DS 9 reads for pleasure at least an hour a day and always takes a book with him to school .
Your child reads far more than average . Humblebrag!

"Reading for pleasure" is - as a number of pp have pointed out - in the hands of the reader.

There's nothing like enforcing for draining the pleasure out of something.

Is it an hour reading your posts and post titles and trying to decipher them?

If you want her to continue reading for pleasure never push more reading! So long as her reading age is not behind then leave her to it. I was an avid reader, I still absolutely love reading, but if it had been pushed on me I would have pushed back and lost the love for it

It depends.. so when my boys were that age, if there was a new Harry Potter book or a Rick Riordan or any other series that they'd got into, they might easily read for 4 or 5 hours at a time ( and all night if it was gripping enough) but then nothing for a few weeks after that.
Some of the children I teach read for more than an hour a day for pleasure, but I'd say it would be a minority.

Why is the season important?
An hour a day is plenty

My DC games online a lot for pleasure. Fully expecting him to up those hours as winter sets in.

My Ds would have done this easily when he was 12. Alas, at the ripe old age of 14 he has found a girlfriend, sports and his playstation, probably wouldn't even recognise what a book looks like now 🤣!

Same! Both of them.

Mindyou, eldest still managed to get a 9 for English lit GCSE.

Youngest found there was a gap for her in reading material once she outgrew 9-12 books. Didn’t want romance or murder and that seemed to be the main themes in the ones her friends read.

there is a very real risk that if you start trying to impose a greater amount of time you’ll take all the pleasure out of it and she’ll become reluctant to engage at all. Instead perhaps invest in some tempting books, a cosy blanket especially for when’s she’s reading, some cosy socks etc and just make reading an attractive prospect. Alternatively, leave her to it, an hour a day is great!

Everyone obviously has different interests. Compared to different children this could be below average, bang on average or above average. This does seem like a bit of a naff boast as there’s not really an answer to it.
One of mine reads for longer than an hour a day - do I get a badge?

There is no meaningful ‘normal’ when it comes to something done for pleasure. Stop micromanaging the fun in her life.

At that age surely it depends what they're into? My 12 year old reads zero for pleasure because he doesn't like reading. He plays a ton of sports though. If yours likes reading then they might well read more than an hour a day, especially if they find a good series they like.

My kids are 17 and 18 and neither of them have ever read a book. I’m an avid reader and read or listen to at least 2 books a week. We have literally hundreds of books in the house but they’ve never been interested.

I think they tend to be all or nothing with this. I used to be reading for hours a day at that age, but some DC don't at all.

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My DD hates the thought of reading a book & will avoid it at all costs. But once she gets into them she does enjoy it. She would never read a book of her own accord which baffles me as I was an avid reader at her age!

There is no ‘norm’. Some people like reading, some don’t. I read lot at that age, and still do now 40 years later. For me reading was something I loved and chose to do. I still remember my Mum keeping a list of the books I had in her purse for when we went to W H Smiths after Christmas and birthdays to spend my vouchers or money.

If you force her to read then you run the risk of it not being something she enjoys and could stop reading. Just let her be.

Well DD would read anything from 1-3 hours a day at that age ... DS isn't interested I struggle to get him to do 20 minutes a day..

and yes your post does come across as boasting

DD reads 0 minutes for pleasure. On the odd chance she opens a book it's because she has to.