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100% the parents need to instill that love of reading early; we don’t have a TV at home and our boys love books. We have the Enid Blyton books at home, along with 100’s of others. We go to the library at least once a week. There are books everywhere, I read so does my partner…But I fear that our household is abnormal; I don’t go to others houses and see books everywhere.
But at schools there needs to be the focus on literacy; currently it just isn’t catered to boys. If a boy is interested in tanks and bombs and war and fighting; but all of the books are about magic and the power of friendship and sparkles; is that boy going to think “the library is the place I go to get exciting stories I like”…nope. It is more likely the thought being something like “libraries are for girls”.
If your school has a library; go look at the content.
100% the parents need to instill that love of reading early; we don’t have a TV at home and our boys love books. We have the Enid Blyton books at home, along with 100’s of others. We go to the library at least once a week. There are books everywhere, I read so does my partner…But I fear that our household is abnormal; I don’t go to others houses and see books everywhere.
But at schools there needs to be the focus on literacy; currently it just isn’t catered to boys. If a boy is interested in tanks and bombs and war and fighting; but all of the books are about magic and the power of friendship and sparkles; is that boy going to think “the library is the place I go to get exciting stories I like”…nope. It is more likely the thought being something like “libraries are for girls”.
If your school has a library; go look at the content.