Don't push reading as wonderful or magical. For a lot of boys, it's not. |
Fiction is always pushed in schools as the holy grail of reading. Boys tend to like non-fiction more. |
I hardly read any fiction. |
Reading is so important. It teaches kids to be analytical thinkers. If we turn our kids off from the very beginning, we're going to lose that. |
You need to be a reader to be a smart consumer and an intelligent citizen. To help boys, we need to realize they have a different take on reading. |