Many years ago, when Benster and Fearless Maria were in elementary school, the last weekly newsletter of the year always encouraged the students to keep reading during the summer because it would help the students academically next year. The newsletter also joked that it is almost impossible to read too much.
I have been reading another blog for the last couple of years. The blogger posts her goals once a week. Under her Family/Marriage/Mothering Goals category, she routinely writes about the books that she will read individually with her children. A separate goal in this category is to read to her children during lunch and dinner. These reading goals are always in this category and in fact, often are the only goals that she posts in this category.
Is it possible to read too much?
Are you reading too much if your main or only goals for your family and your marriage are reading? Are you reading too much if you inhale your own meal in order to spend the rest of the mealtime reading to your children? Are you reading too much if you read to your children at mealtime instead of conversing with them?
What do you think?
4 comments:
One criteria right off the bat is what is being read. The literacy rate these days is impressive, but the quality of popular literature and the thought it provokes does not correspond.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that someone who is a sufficiently mindful parent as to set specific goals for reading time maybe takes some of the other fundamentals you mention as a given. Alternatively, the blog is an incomplete record of family life.
CS Lewis comments that literacy is not an unalloyed good, because if one obtains literacy without a basic understanding of logic, one ends up slave to whoever one reads.
Sometimes I wonder if that's the point of the government schools.
if the family is hungry, the kids are dirty, laundry piled up, the kitchen a mess, and hubby's needs are neglected...
i'd say there's too much reading going on...
not that any of these are the case.
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