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Non Fiction Books Are Educational |
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Jerry Gilders |
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There are times when I realize that parenting is the hardest job that any of us take on. It is also the most rewarding and fun activity also. I did not realize the time and patience that is required to help a child to adulthood. There are the years of infancy and preschool when there are constant care needs as well as supervision for safety. Once they begin to learn there is the constant need to challenge their minds to insure they do not get bored or frustrated with learning. This is done through reading, playing games and coming up with activities that challenge them to use their imaginations. At the same time we need to encourage them to be strong and to eat healthy and develop their physical growth as well. The things that are needed to develop a well adjusted child seem endless.
My two children are very different from each other. My son likes to finish one thing before he goes onto the next. He is very neat and precise in everything that he does. If he starts something and needs to leave it before it is finished he is very deliberate in how he puts it away. He also loves to read. When he was in fourth grade he would bring home different books on science, animals and geology. I was amazed at how much he loved to learn; however I was concerned that he was too serious. One day I asked him if only liked non fiction books. He asked me what I meant by non fiction books. I told him that there were many books that were made up that people read for entertainment. These were books that described fantasies and make believe. He said he did not think he would like these kinds of books.
My daughter on the other hand loves to read anything and everything about fantasy. She has a rich make believe life including dressing up and pretending that she is one of the characters in the books she reads. She has a difficult time completing her work at school, not because she does not understand it, but because she is distracted so easily. She thinks non fiction books are boring because they rarely have the action in them that she seems to crave. I told my husband one day that I wish that we could some how blend the two of them. They both seem to have the extremes of their personalities rather than a nice combination. Our hope is that they will learn from each other. Our son needs to be less serious and our daughter needs to get better focused.
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