/lit/ - Literature

>>12758287
>>12758348
Wrong.

The way you get kids reading is to set an example and enforce household rules. Kids look to their parents to get a vibe for what's normal and what's not in their household, and they are watching what you do, not what you say.

When a kid sees their parents come home from work and rather than reading, they choose to bury themselves in
>their phones,
>their tablets,
>trash tv
>Netflix
>laptops
>and video games,

they see what the adults ACTUALLY care about.

Forcing books on kids if you're not reading AT LEAST as much as you want them to read, or taking electronics away while you're still working through your Factorio and Netflix addiction, is the equivalent of drinking a diet coke after 15 plates at the buffet and thinking that you're a paragon of restraint.

You may have seniority, but the moral high ground is earned, not free. You want your family to read? Fill a house with books, throw away YOUR technology, and beat your kid at reading every last one of them.