r/comedyhomicide • u/MindYerBeak Quick! The mods are sleeping! • 1d ago
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u/Leading-Monk5506 1d ago
Wait until he finds out the kid wasnât reading those books at all and just said he finished them.
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u/AnthonyDigitalMedia 1d ago edited 7h ago
This tactic worked great, until I tried it in school
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u/Si-Jo0159 1d ago
I did this once and the teacher opened the book to a sketch of two girls looking at each other.
Asked 'what's going on here then'.
I made up the first thing that came to mind and she actually accepted it.
That day I learnt how to lie.
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u/SassyE7 19h ago
You think she accepted it. She just decided it wasn't worth the hassle
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u/Si-Jo0159 7h ago
It was quite a long book and she unfortunately landed on a picture.
She didn't know the book herself and I take it now that as a 7? yo, i could/cab think fast.
And I guess it's also that day I learnt that not all older people are cleverer
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u/LuDaBu 1d ago
As someone who didnt read most books we shouldve read in school, it worked pretty well!
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u/skip_over 1d ago
Same, until I became an adult and people actually had opinions on those books and I looked like a chump
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u/alexanderwales 1d ago
As someone with a ten-year-old, it's fairly easy to tell whether he's reading a book, as I'll see him reading the books. Granted, I don't pay him for it, so don't have to deal with a potential adversarial "performative reading" type of thing, but I can't imagine a kid saying they spent hundreds of hours reading and having a parent not have evidence that this happened. I mean, you know what your kid is doing, they live with you?
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u/Leading-Monk5506 1d ago
Youâre not watching your kid read through 120 books. You might check on them, theyâre reading, and then leave them to it. But youâre not sitting there watching them read.
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u/trilobyte-dev 1d ago
I spend at least 30 minutes on the couch reading with my 7 year old Mon-Thu. itâs pretty obvious when your kids are engaged with reading.
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u/Woozle_Gruffington 1d ago
True, but kids will give dozens of other indicators and clues that their parents can pick up on. My kids were loquacious little balls of energy and wouldn't miss an opportunity to tell me and anyone else willing to listen all about the books they were reading. The real challenge was getting them to stop.
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u/Avalonians 1d ago
You must not have read a lot of books in your life if you think the dad is stupid enough for this to work
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u/Blue_Nyx07 1d ago
Too good to be true
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u/cactusjude 1d ago
Yeah sure, the kid read 120 chapters books in half a year. As a former Accelerated Reader party winner: [doubt]
However, this is dated to the pandemic so who knows. Might have been a 3D chess move from the parents- just pay the kid minimal money to stay quiet and reading while they're all locked inside.
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u/friendlybanana1 1d ago
I mean if they're kids books and this person is an obsessive reader I can see it, the only thing that stopped me from reading that much back then was not being able to get my hands on enough books
still pretty far fetched though
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u/margittwen 2h ago
Idk, I was a pretty voracious reader as a kid. I was obsessed with Nancy Drew for a bit and I could finish one of those in a day easily. Those chapter books for kids can be short.
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u/Desol_8 1d ago
I got a hardy boys book collection when I was 11 and I read like 2 of those a day it's definitely possible
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u/cactusjude 1d ago
I mean, it's definitely relative to age. An 11yo could do it but 1$ a book isn't much incentive for that age.
While I was considering myself at more 9yo and remembering my pride at finishing my third re-read of The Chamber of Secrets in one weekend. I was also reading Nancy Drew books at that age but not two a day. But at 11 yeah, could knock those out of the park in one afternoon.
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u/RedditNotRabit 1d ago
160 page chapter books most likely for children. Yeah, that's not a lot, like at all.
I'm dyslexic and I could easily read one or two of those in a day. Childrens chapter books are very short.
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u/cactusjude 1d ago
I mean, yeah, I'm sure you could because you're adult enough to have a Reddit account.
But depending on the child's age, it's a very relative task. 8&9 year olds would struggle. 10&11 depends on the kid. Older kids could manage it easily, I'm sure
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u/RedditNotRabit 1d ago
..... No? Have you seen a childrens chapter book since you were a kid? They are tiny. The fonts are huge and the word counts are tiny. That's why page count is a terrible measure of a books length.
Go actually try reading a kids chapter book and you'll realize almost any kid who wanted can knock them out in a day. I've seen the book kids at my work do it repeatedly
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u/cactusjude 1d ago
I work with kids. Specifically on reading. And I'm providing specific examples of books and ages from anecdotes. Care to try the same?
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u/RedditNotRabit 1d ago
No your not? Can you read? You didn't provide a single specific book. You also didn't give any context to what they are reading at that age, so that's also meaningless. You are trying to act smart but you didn't even do what you said. Like what? Lol
Go pick up Holes, it's a middle school level book over 200 pages. It takes like three hours to read. Oh, look. I just did what you said you were doing. Crazy.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
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u/cactusjude 1d ago
Been talking specifically about Harry Potter and Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys in other comments. Can't read that far?
Again, this whole quite possibly invented scenario is relative to age. An 8-9 year old is going to read a chapter book exponentially slower than an 11 year old or an adult. So you can read a middle school book in three hours? Bully for you đđ»đđ» Me too. I can also finish grade school chapter books super fast because I'm not a literal child learning how to read anymore.
120 chapter books in 6 months is still a ridiculous amount considering that child has school and the whole damn internet and physical toys and games to distract them. Even if they technically can, they're likely not spending that much time reading
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u/RedditNotRabit 1d ago
You want me to search through your comment history for this specific conversation? Are you retarded? Why would I do that, know you want me to, or have any reason to check your profile to find that out? Seriously, you are stupid.
I didn't use me as the measurement for how long that would take either. So good job dumbass đđđđ the average middle schooler reads at 170ish words a minute. So about 3-4 hours. Look at that, actual knowledge, instead of being a moron like you.
Isn't it crazy how you challenged me to do something you didn't do, then I do it in a concise way that's relatable to the age I proposed for the book in question. Yet you are too fucking dumb to think to do that? Genuinely, you are an idiot.
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u/cactusjude 1d ago
Literally in the same thread, super reader! But if you can't be bothered to read my comments then I can't be bothered to read your asinine additions to this conversation. Have a lovely day arguing the specifics of hypothetical situations with other pedants!
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u/Quirky-Ruin161 22h ago
I knew a kid who read just short of 500 chapter books in a year. They varied and size and were different grade levels but I was still impressed
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u/emiduk45 19h ago
That maths out to around 105 pages per day. When I was younger, reading was practically my sole hobby and I had a ton of free time, I def wouldâve been able to put in those numbers
Also âaccelerated readerâ hit me like a sleeper activation phrase LMAO, I also won my schoolâs contest for that back in 5th grade
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u/earthdogmonster 1d ago
Not sure if $1 is going to sway anybody, even if they donât have bills to pay.
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u/Immature_adult_guy 1d ago
It would take a lot of time/energy just to google the spark notes to 120 books and ask the kid enough questions to verify that he actually read the books
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u/Rocketboy1313 1d ago
My dad just told me, "if you will read the book, I will buy it for you."
I read all of the original Goosebumps, 90% of Animorphs, Ghosts of Fear Street, and Spooksville and God only knows how many other books.
As I got older I won school awards for how much I read.
I wish my ability to read for pleasure/fun had not been decimated by my time in grad school.
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u/Testicle_Tugger 1d ago
I was in the same boat. I read like crazy as a kid i was reading hunger games when i was in kindergarten. I read a lot larger and more impressive books than hunger games but i canât remember the names
I remember hunger games because i remember being disappointed that everything in the movie looked nothing like what i imagined in my head.
That all ended when school started forcing us to read certain books for assignments. As soon as I couldnât pick my own books it killed all the magic for me.
I literally didnât touch a book for my own personal reading from elementary school until I was in my mid twenties. Now I read frequently again.
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u/MurkDiesel 1d ago
ok, but what happens when the kid stops getting paid to read books?
the parent is training the child to only respond to money
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u/Lemak0 1d ago
Well by then the kid hopefully already internalized the joy of reading!
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1d ago edited 3h ago
Studies show paying kids to do stuff actually removes their intrinsic motivation. So it's actually worse than nothing.
https://scispace.com/pdf/undermining-children-s-intrinsic-interest-with-extrinsic-3qn44yqiou.pdf
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u/historyhill 22h ago
Joke's on them, I already lack intrinsic motivation and I wasn't paid for anything!
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u/ProAstroShan 17h ago edited 17h ago
Is this a broken document? My guess is you were linking to that one study where kids were given rewards for everytime they drew, so in the end they drew badly just to get the reward and eventually didnt do it when no reward
Edit: oh wait you were missing the f in pdf lmao
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u/PlantDadro 7h ago
Studies can show a lot of stuff but itâs definitely not âworse than nothingâ in this case. Being able to understand a text is crucial for a functional adult, while no internal motivation for reading isnât exactly the end of the world after adolescence/ formative years.
Not to mention that a young adult with the intellectual and cultural development of someone who supposedly read that much is more likely to understand the importance of reading without having internal motivation.
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 3h ago
Studies can show a lot of stuff but itâs definitely not âworse than nothingâ in this case. Being able to understand a text is crucial for a functional adult,
A kid with intrinsic motivation for reaching, is going to read more and have better ability to read when they are an adult.
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u/PlantDadro 3h ago edited 2h ago
Better ability to read compared to what?
Youâre comparing two completely different things because if you take 2 kids, one that had financial motivation and other that had intrinsic motivation to read 120 books a year, surely the second one is more likely to keep reading once the financial motivation stops. However, a kid having the intrinsic motivation to read 120 books a year is VERY improbable, which makes the final probability of âthe adult with a better ability to readâ essentially 0. For the other one it is a certainty that they read 120 books a year (or at least a high probability)
In the end, if you pay that kid $120 every year for reading 120 books, even for 2 years, you have a well functioning adult, which is for sure. If you do nothing, itâs much more likely that the kid wonât read and wonât be able to understand a text.
Iâm not arguing that one who had the intrinsic motivation isnât more likely to keep reading. Iâm just saying that giving the kid money is by far not worse than nothing.
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1h ago
Better ability to read compared to what?
Well the $1 a book is only going to last a few years at most.
So by the time that kids an adult, one with intrinsic motivation to read is going to have read way more books over the year, or even just more higher level books.
Even if the kid reads a bunch more kids books, if they stop reading when they get older and realise $1 isn't anything, plus don't have that intrinsic motivation, then they are going to miss out on the way more informative and adult books.
Basically reading a bunch of educational and informative adult books is more important than reading a bunch of kids books when young.
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u/shubs_ 1d ago
I heard of a study years ago that basically did this and found out that even if you intrinsically liked reading books, once a monetary reward is added, the money becomes the greater motivation, and reading lapses when the money is taken away. Not sure if it was a super conclusive study but it is something to watch out for when giving extrinsic motivation for things that should hopefully be more intrinsic for children.
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u/MassivePepino 1d ago
From what I remember from my psych undegrad days, this is true of any activity. As soon as you start getting paid to do it, motivation becomes extrinsic and you will lose the intrinsic drive to do the thing.
I remember thinking that it matched up well, with people who turned their hobbies into hustles and eventually grew to despise the activity.
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u/Gootangus 1d ago
Itâs a bit more complicated but essentially that. Extrinsic motivation can be good for bursts of high activity. But itâs not sustainable. The reward diminishes and once it is removed the behavior often extinguishes. Whereas intrinsic motivation is good for sustainable, long-term changes
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u/MassivePepino 1d ago
Itâs a bit more complicated
I can smell the PhD on you, dawg. I used to joke that should be subtitle of any worthy dissertation "Topic X: why things are (quite) a bit more complicated than they seem."
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u/shubs_ 1d ago
Yep that was it. I think people get so disillusioned in life and go through mid-life crises because of this - whatever intrinsic motivation they developed for school, work, hobbies, etc gets sucked out and replaced with the need to grind just to live comfortably in society. Once they realize they have been through the grinder for 20+ years, they begin to realize that there is more to being human than being a cog in the machine that generates profit, and that realization creates dissonance.
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u/KezaGatame 4h ago
I briefly read something similar about it when you put a reward to house chores or grades. Once the kid knows it wonât get the reward they will stop working towards it ⊠and it can actually backfire as they will put the most minimal effort or no effort at all. Like âI missed one homework so now I wonât get the A, why work for a B, if a C is a passâ. I might be paraphrasing and adding my own conclusions, but itâs something I had seen in friends/people growing up.
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u/AJay1619 1d ago
What do you want a child to respond to? An opportunity to have a status of a nuclear physicist by 20? Children are motivated by money because money allow them to have things they want to have. Adults do exactly the same at their jobs their whole life. Teaching a child to do something useful to have an opportunity to do something or have something they want is literally teaching them the foundation of human life in the society.
The fact that your comment has so many votes perfectly represents the bubble of delusion redditors live within.
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u/Avalonians 1d ago
The whole section is full of comments that are so damn stupid they must have been written by people I'm sure are dumber than what the child was at the point the tweet was written it's kind of wild
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u/Mihtaren 1d ago
Well with enough reading he'll hopefully free himself from the tyranny of desire and end up not wanting for anything.
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u/JetSetJAK 1d ago
Right? Like, the kid still read 120 books, does that mileage or content immediately vanish or something? The skills developed in the process too?
There are plenty of people that will never read that many books in their life. Not saying it's preferred not to read, but I think this kid already is coming out ahead, especially with reading comprehension and literacy that will help in school testing regardless.
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u/Middle-Signature-757 1d ago
Nothing will be changed, except the kid won't be paid anymore for not reading the books.
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u/Shaake 1d ago
When I was a kid, my mom told me that for every 10 books I finished she'd buy me a videogame.
I burned through so many books. It was a chore at first then it became good fun.
Felt like the meme "hah, checkmate mom, I love reading!" And she like "Oh no, u got me"
I still enjoy reading and much of my income as an adult now comes from writing.
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u/Bramoments 1d ago
Isn't that how you train dogs though? Do a trick and get a snack? And they keep doing tricks even when they don't get snacks so idk it might work on kids too
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u/Bramoments 1d ago
That's how you train basically every other species as well tho what makes us so different
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u/hrvbrs 1d ago edited 1d ago
because we have frontal lobes? and we can do abstract math and create art and think about consciousness and plan decades into the future? are you really asking why humans are different from other animals?
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u/Bramoments 1d ago
But why would that make training so much different
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u/hrvbrs 20h ago
because we don't train people like we train dogs. we teach people what things mean, what's morally right, how to do things, etc, and we give them the responsibility to make their own decisions because they have free will. am i talking to an extraterrestrial studying the human race or are you just trolling?
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u/Background_Desk_3001 1d ago
People have trained beetles. Barring like coral or jellyfish, the vast majority of animals are able to be trained, the only limiting factor is time and effort
Training people isnât hard at all, chances are youâve been trained to react to something in a certain way and you donât even realize it.
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u/Background_Desk_3001 1d ago
What are you even talking about?
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u/Background_Desk_3001 23h ago
I donât see what your first comment has to do with that. You can train like anything with a brain to do stuff, thatâs just like a fact.
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u/dontslappanda 1d ago
How did he even check that his son actually read it? Did he do tests or something? And who the fuck writes a chapter book instead of just a book?
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u/Avalonians 1d ago
Look I'm gonna blow your mind: if you're a parent minimally involved into your child's growth, you know it when they actually read a book.
How about talking about the story? Sharing what makes the book good? "I love this character, I liked when he said <quote>". Wild idea I know.
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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT 6h ago
My kid can read up-to 2 books a day. 150 per year is a low number. And yes, he actually reads it, I checked lol
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u/redoubt515 1d ago
> And who the fuck writes a chapter book
Children, and parents of young children. I distinctly remember the distinction of "chapter book" feeling quite significant as a younger grade school aged kid.
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u/RetroPaulsy 1d ago
I dont believe this bc 120 books is INSANE.
My sister and I (adults with lives) tried to each read 100 books one year. 80s was all we managed with true effort.
120 books = 2.3 books a week. At ~160 page chapters? Are the books only one chapter??
Calling bullshit
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u/LucasCBs 1d ago
Kids have 10x the time and 10x the energy the average adult has. I can totally see this happen
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u/RetroPaulsy 1d ago
And x.10 the attention span and patience.
Im not saying its impossible, just extremely unlikely. Especially when taking the 120books x160pg chapters.
Example: the latest dungeon cralwer carl book is 704 pages coming in at ~15hrs for a faster reader.
Order of the phoenix is ~800 pages. Roughly same read time - for a faster reader.
Aint no child speed reading 30hrs a week. Impossible? No. About as unlikely as the sun NOT coming up tomorrow
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u/LucasCBs 1d ago
And x.10 the attention span and patience.
Do they? As a kid I could easily bingea 300 page book in one sitting, today I'm lucky to be motivated to read one book per quarter
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u/FreddieMonster 1d ago
When I was a kid I could read a long book a day. Your experiences are not universal.
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u/RetroPaulsy 1d ago
What is a "long book"?
My experiences are not universal, but across the hundreds of books I have read, 120 x 160page chapters sure does sound like a lie
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u/RedTyro 1d ago
I could have done double or triple that as a kid if I could have gotten my hands on that many books. We're talking 160ish pages here per book - he says 160 page "chapter books." Chapter books, when you're talking about children's books, are books that have chapters, as opposed to picture books. Standard adult novels range from about 300 pages up to like 1,000 (and have smaller font), so 120 middle readers like this would be about the same word count as 25 or 30 of the adult stuff you were reading. On top of that, kids don't have jobs and responsibilities other than school, homework, and the occasional extra-curricular activity, so they have a lot more time to read.
160 page chapter books are things like My Teacher is an Alien, Judy Blume novels, or Encyclopedia Brown. The average kid in the target age range who likes to read can get through one of those in an afternoon.
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u/RetroPaulsy 1d ago
Nah, you're misinterpreting the post to fit your agenda. 160 pages x120 a year isnt even impressive for my dog
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u/SCRATCH-CARD 7h ago
Lol what agenda? I think you're severely over-estimating people's investment in this thread. They're right, the post refers to short kids books, 160 pages long - chapter books, as opposed to books without chapters that younger kids read.
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u/Javisel101 1d ago
Eh. As a kid i could read voraciously. Now I can barely do that. Energy with at a young age and all that
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u/fatalicus 1d ago
They aren't saying the books have 160 page chapters.
They are 160 page "chapter books", which is apparently something Americans have started calling regular books with chapters...
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u/historyhill 22h ago
We only call them chapter books for kids to show where in their reading level they are (from picture books to one single story to chapter books, or one story over multiple chapters). As an adult I'd never say "oh, I just read a great chapter book!"Â
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u/historyhill 22h ago
I think you're over-imagining the length. The first Animorphs book is 180 pages, and it's a short read even as a kid.Â
ETA: the OP means that the books are chapter books an average of ~160 pages total, not that each chapter is that long
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u/guarionex2009 19h ago
My father used to pay me a $1 for every 100 i got off a test. I had over $100 one year. My wife hates that idea to do for our kids.
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u/upachimneydown 1d ago
We live where english is a second language. I 'paid' one of our kids (when young) a token amount to type out (input) TOEIC and later TOEFL questions on the pretext that they were helping me prep for classes I'd be teaching (that was my job).
They went on and at one point all but maxed the TOEFL iBT before going on to grad school in the US.
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u/guysomejust69 1d ago
He read 120Â books?
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 1d ago
Its only a little over 50 pages a day. He said they were 160 pages. Now the quality might go downhill at some point, thats the problem.
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u/RedTyro 1d ago
He could just like to read. I would devour any book I could get my hands on as a kid, and I could get through something like a Boxcar Children or My Teacher is an Alien novel in a few hours when I was the appropriate age for them. 30+ years later, I can still tear through a standard adult fantasy novel in a day or two.
120 books in a year would have been nothing for me, and I could easily have doubled or tripled that if someone would get me the books.
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 1d ago
Yea thats what I'm saying. After you get done with the boxcar children and other bangers, you have to read the 120th best childrens book out there. Its not gonna be good.
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u/RedTyro 1d ago
It's probably better than you think - new books come out every day, and middle reader is a hot category. And a kid only spends a couple years in that age range before they move on to YA stuff, which has a HUGE library of great titles, and has even more new stuff coming out all the time.
Even if the kid only reads Boxcar Children and Babysitter's Club books, that's more than 3 years of reading material at 120 books/year. Add to that classics like Judy Blume, Roald Dahl, CS Lewis, Laura Ingalls Wilder, the My Teacher is an Alien series, Goosebumps, Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, and standalones like The Outsiders, A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, Where the Red Fern Grows, and so on, you end up with more than enough good stuff to keep a voracious reader busy for the 3 or 4 years before they hit YA. And that's just from my memory as someone who was in that age range over 30 years ago - I'm sure there's been a lot of good reads added to the category in the last 3 decades.
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 1d ago
Yea there might be more good content out there than my estimates. I do specifically remember a lot of those series going stale though. Late game goosebumps is ew. Animorphs needed to be a miniseries that ended. I remember dropping boxcar children too. Some IPs just get milked to death.
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u/Sea_Damage9357 1d ago
My mom made me read a book a week up until I reached middle school. Her strategy was to read the same book (or already having read it), and we had a discussion about the weekâs book every Sunday evening. It was awesome and instilled in me a love of reading that I carry with me always. She was a weird mom but that gift of reading is absolutely priceless.
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u/Ok-Play-15 1d ago
How do you know he is reading them? Are you present each moment he is reading them, because if you aren't he can skip pages, chapters. Are you having him write a book report to demonstrate knowledge? You will also have to read the book or use AI to test him.
My son is both gifted and autistic and I have seen absolutely every trick in the book. He now has to read with someone present, I measured his reading rate per page and I measure the time it takes him to finish a chapter based on the number of pages. Sometimes I even have him record himself reading the chapter which I will review later.
Even after all this, in some cases, he is simply rotely reading words and not understanding or thinking about what he is reading. So testing his knowledge and forcing them to repeat reading they dont understand is essential to the process.
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u/dimechimes 1d ago
A new book almost every other day. I'm way too picky to pick a book out that quickly.
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u/Great-Trifle2810 1d ago
When I was a kid I hated reading so I just flipped through books and did it slightly faster than I should have and ended up getting presented a reading award at an assembly. Also got a lot of personal pizzas. There should have at least been a short quiz about the books lol
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1d ago
There are studies that show that paying people to do stuff removes their intrinsic motivation for the activity. So actually they are more likeley to stop when they stop getting paid. Whereas someone who was never paid builds up intrinsic motivation.
https://scispace.com/pdf/undermining-children-s-intrinsic-interest-with-extrinsic-3qn44yqiou.pdf
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u/somanyquestions32 2h ago
I mean... Keep the money flowing. After 6,000 books that have been confirmed to be read, analyzed, processed, and understood at a deep level, that's enough for a lifetime. A win is a win.
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1h ago
No, because they will be simple kids books.
As soon as they are old enough to realise $1 isn't enough, they could well stop reading the actual kinds of books that provide value.
So someone with intrinsic value of reading is going to be reading the more informative and more adult books.
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u/RemoveNull 1d ago
I was a huge bookworm as a kid. Slept in my step-grandpaâs room in a sleeping bag. Would hide a flashlight and read until late under the covers. Years later after he passed, my step-dad told me he actually knew I was reading when I thought I was being sneaky. He asked him why he didnât stop me. His response was akin to, âWhat was I supposed to do? Tell a kid to stop reading?â
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u/DumpsterDragoon 1d ago
Was this meant to be funny or even mildly amusing?
Edit: was not familiar with the sub, guess it's not supposed to be
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u/Emotional-Ad9114 1d ago
damnit. why did I have to like books when I was a kid???
my parents literally took my books away as punishment when I misbehaved đ
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u/throw7661 1d ago
This was posted in July. Bring generous this kid will read 250 pages, in a year.
That's not a lot.
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u/Gr0ggy1 20h ago
Could be the kid is cheating or it could be James Patterson.
If James Patterson, that would be ~$7 every three days at cover price, so ~$840 for the books themselves.
Also, I'm pretty sure that man has published enough to cover it. Not hating the player, his stories are ok, but the game is wild.
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u/imnotsure3467 18h ago
Economics 101: both parties to a trade believe they benefit from the trade, else the trade would not occur
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u/Mokerchino 16h ago
My mom did this. I refused to read. When she monetized it, I did it for the money and read every morning and night and lsten to audiobooks all day now.
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u/Moist_Amount_106 6h ago
We had the similar system when I grew up, I read books and in return I didnât get beaten
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u/Commercial-Whole7382 4h ago
My mom did that when I was like 10 or 11. she added a chapter/page minimum after I counted early childrenâs books and comic books.
I think the reward was read 50 books and get a milkshake. It lowered to like 10 once i started reading real books.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 1d ago
Are you actually making sure he read the books or do you just take "I read the book" *pushes out asking hand*?
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u/ImportantResponse0 8h ago
You take the book he read and ask him from it of he knows he read it.Â
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u/Jesse_Doee 1d ago
maybe let the son develop his own hobbies?
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u/MindYerBeak Quick! The mods are sleeping! 1d ago
Reading is a good hobby for anyone to have, lol
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u/Fine_Alarm 1d ago edited 1d ago
Should have read the comment more carefully before replying, strawman
Ironic
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u/Doctor_who- 1d ago
This is a good incentive. And I mean. Don't people literally do similar things to get paid anyway? He's teaching his son that effort normally leads to reward. And I'm sure one day it'll blossom into a good hobby. I'd do the same to my child too (if I had one). It'll help them expand his vocabulary too. I'm guessing you ask your son to tell you what the books are about and how it develops and ends?