To let dd15 simply read all summer

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Aibu to be okay with dd15’s plan to spend her entire summer reading?

She has GCSEs next year, and I strongly suspect she won’t follow up her plan of studying a few hours very day this summer.

She gets good grades and is a nice girl.

She updated her TBR (“to be read”) list of 100 books and that’s her plan! Some of them are non fiction and the fiction is a lot of “good quality” stuff (not junky AI romantasies!)

Good for her.
My idea of a fantastic summer.
I am aiming for a book a week (I've got a bit slack with reading) so I only have 6 books on my TBR pile.

Sounds good. But she will need exercise and some socialising as well!

I used to do this every summer but tbh if I look back it was a bit sad and isolating. I should’ve included some sport or socialising as well as the reading.
a couple of hours a day reading is fine. Reading for 12 hours a day for 6 weeks isn’t great, she needs more exercise fresh air and company than that.

Ops put that you are being unreasonable, I meant that if you're ok with this then that's great! I'm very envious of her!

This was me at that age, at 15 it as Stephen King and Clive Barker. The year after it was a list my future a level English lit teacher gave me.
i spent my evenings watching Hammer Horror movies.

Lots of my friends were away most of the summers sadly so I learnt to occupy myself.

Does she not go out with friends at all? I think she needs a social life in between the reading.

When I was a teenager my summer exercise was usually walking to the library for more books 😂
(about a 20/30 minutes walk....one way was up hill)

Sounds like a lovely summer.

I would encourage her to get a job, at least part time. But reading is good activity to do in her spare time.

sounds heavenly and I would do similar at that age. But I did miss out socially, it is total escapism. If she can fit in seeing friends or also find an activity that is social I think that would be ideal.

If she's happy, let her be herself.

Depends on her reasons for doing it and her situation and wellbeing overall.

I could have done something like this at that age and been happy and OK, as I was mentally and physically well and had friends etc,

but my DC couldn’t (since the likely drivers to do it would have been perfectionism and problems & not having friends at school)

Dislike the idea that the books should be somehow ‘worthy’.

What are you reasons for worrying if this would be ok? Is it that you are worried that she should be exercising, spending time with friends, working?

She’s 15 so not like she can work. Don’t see the problem with this, long as she’s still getting out the house in the mean time.

Sounds fantastic, what I did every summer growing up, and it has stood me in good stead!

Read, read, read and read some more - can never underestimate the value of reading esp a broad range of fiction and non-fiction.

ETA: I presume your question is about reading in place of revision.

She definitely needs to be out getting fresh air and socialising but on a rainy day or if you mean reading for 2 hours rather than studying then absolutely fine. She doesn’t need to start gcse revision just yet although reading I’m sure will help in many ways anyway

She's got another 60 years of spending all her free time doing stuff she has to do. Absolutely let her have some time now to do the things she wants to do. Why wouldn't you?

Same. I used to meet my mates at the library 🤣

She's 15,good luck with that.

Also reading in the garden counts as fresh air.

Let? Can you stop a teen from reading?

I would be completely unbothered by my child reading all summer. It’s her summer and the break is a good time to focus on hobbies like reading before the grind of year 11.

God yes! I would have been delighted if DS had this planned, instead of noisy, shouting online gaming. (He did read quite a lot too tbf)

Me too! I was just here to post this in response to @Velvera . To be honest, if she likes reading that much and she has friends, they're probably also the sort of people who like reading.

I did also used to go out underage clubbing with my older mates, but I'm not sure how feasible that is any more now they are stricter about ID.

Aged 15 my dc chose what they wanted to do in their leisure time and none of them did schoolwork in the summer holidays They all got good grades and none of them read