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It’s fine to not like to read
It’s fine to not like to read. … The want to be a reader, an intellectual, someone who collects high grades and good degrees and makes their parents proud. But actually, it’s the worst thing you can tell many kids, that they have to like to read.
It could be a combination of watching too much television at home and doing a lot of boring worksheets in school. Once children lose interest in reading, it’s hard to get them back. The motivation to read also tends to decrease as kids get older. Reading is like any other skill.
People who read books tend to have a greater imagination, more knowledge, and a greater vocabulary. Theory of mind is the ability to understand the mental states of others. … Time and again, research has shown that reading ‘rewires’ our brains, and makes us more intelligent and healthy.
This can include mood disorders like depression and bipolar disorder and nearly all of the anxiety disorders, including PTSD, OCD, generalized anxiety, or social anxiety. “Trouble concentrating or reading is also a common companion during grief, especially after an unexpected loss,” she explains.
What causes poor reading skills? There are various factors that lead to reading failure, including impoverished exposure to language and early literacy activities, lack of adequate instruction, and/or more biologically based risk factors.
Academic, emotional and social issues abound for children who are poor readers. Children who are behind their peers in reading struggle with low self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy. Low achievement in reading is also the common denominator in school discipline, attendance and dropout problems, and juvenile crime.
If you don’t read, nothing happens. You remain the same as the world advances without you. Reading is one of the most important things you can do to exercise your mind and your discernment. Reading allows you to see both sides of a conversation.
It takes our brain a little bit of time to ramp up and zone in on the material we are reading. … This can cause a number of reading related inefficiencies. Most importantly, it can lower our ability to focus on the information we are trying to retain.
Rank | Country | Hours spent in reading per person per week (selected countries) |
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1 | India | 10:42 |
2 | Thailand | 9:24 |
3 | China | 8:00 |
4 | Philippines | 7:36 |
Reading books they dislike helps them form a sense of self and a sense of opinion. By reading things they don’t necessarily like or find boring, they can strengthen their awareness of what they do like and find interesting. It’s all about self-awareness. It’s also about teaching them appreciation.
By adding to that storehouse, reading increases your crystallised intelligence. That explains why some IQ tests include vocabulary words, which generally serve as a reliable proxy of how clever you are. But all of us know people with little “book knowledge” who are nonetheless sharp and insightful.
Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefits of deep relaxation and inner calm. Regular readers sleep better, have lower stress levels, higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression than non-readers.
Hyperlexia is when a child starts reading early and surprisingly beyond their expected ability. It’s often accompanied by an obsessive interest in letters and numbers, which develops as an infant. Hyperlexia is often, but not always, part of the autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Labels for reading disorders include dyslexia, reading disability, reading disorder, specific reading disorder, andspecific reading comprehension deficit. Writing disorder labels also vary, with some being dysgraphia, writing disability, writing disorder, and specific writing disorder.
Whether you’re reading 30 minutes each day or upwards of two hours, the key is to get some (book) reading in every single day. The benefits are well charted: improving both intelligence and emotional IQ, reducing stress, and allowing readers to, on average, live longer than non-readers.
This is almost entirely false. Actually, lower IQ isn’t specifically related to ADHD. People with ADHD are often perceived to have low intelligence because they work differently than the rest of the population.
Mar 14, 2017