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Message: [QUOTE="Millhouse, post: 881302, member: 78"] i'm not saying anyone in this thread is guilty of this but lots of sports writer types seem to think the solution to college athletes not being able to read is to stop them from being college athletes. still the same number of people out there who can't read, still the same number of people with sh!tty futures, but hey, out of sight out of mind. going on a tangent here now i would love to see a study of kids whose parents read to them that is corrected for the IQ of the parents. higher IQ parents probably read more to their kids so you have to take that into consideration (you'd overstate the impact of reading to them without controlling for that) i'm the youngest of three. by the time i was around, my parents figured it out and read to me all the time. in kindergarten i went to a second grade room for reading. my siblings (same iqs) were read to a more normal amount and didn't read as young. it didn't matter for them whether it they learned to read at 4 5 6 whatever, they were smart enough where they were going to be fine. sample of three I know but if your kid is below average, it's that much more important to read read read to them. i suspect their parents aren't smart enough to realize it though. i don't think IQ is strongly related to ones ability to read but I think it's strongly related to ones desire to teach a child to read. there is not much teachers can do for below average kids who were never exposed to books and never learned to enjoy them. by the time you're in your teens, there's no enjoyment in learning to read baby books. it's why adults are lousy at learning instruments - impatience, it's no fun to suck at something. kids don't care, they'll stick with it the parents of these kids failed them by not making reading important i'm referring to the portion of those bad readers that don't have a learning disability that directly makes it tougher for them to read [/QUOTE]

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