GenX Required Reading in School

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1. The dreaded summer reading list! Always an unexpected joy of summer. One of my favorites was The Great Train Robbery by Michael Chrichton. It may have been his first novel.

2. Thank you, thank you, thank you… now I know why I do not have a love of reading to this day. You guys hit the nail squarely on the head. Had I been encouraged to read things that were interesting to me, I may see reading differently than I do today. I read for knowledge, but not for pleasure. I put people that read for pleasure in the same camp as people that use the words ‘fun’ and ‘run’ in the same sentence.

   This was a driving force as to why my wife and I homeschooled our 4 kids; we both hated school. Our job as homeschool parents was to ‘key in’ to their interests and make it educational and fun. To this day, they love learning due to the ‘Lifestyle of Learning’ method we used. Unfortunately our first born took the brunt of our learning curve, but she turned out quite good if I say so myself!

   Keep up the good work with the shows!

3. Thanks, Dan!