reading

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3158

Anake wrote:

> I was born in 1982 and am part of the class of 2001,

bleah. I graduated from high school in 1982. I babysat your kind.

> Sometimes I think it's just how you grew up.

True. I was a quintessential "latchkey kid," well before the term was invented; last of four, and my mom went back to work when I was in 2nd
grade. So I'd get home, let myself in, and hang around the house. And I usually elected to read.

I think some of it depends on *how* one learned to read, too. My parents didn't teach us, per se, but they taught us how to sound things out and
work through stuff at a time when reading was taught by rote memorization (at least at my school). It's my personal, totally unsupported theory
that people who learned to read phonetically are those who enjoy it.

Hm? All you little pipsqueaks out there? And stand up straight, and speak up so I can hear you, and respect the grey hair, here.....

--Amanda (eh?)