/lit/ - Literature

The Bible.
The Pilgrim's Progress.

>>15832235
Comic books to teach them to read on their own time. Meanwhile reading books with them alternating between me and them reading say a page or chapter.

>>15832235
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

>>15832235
Start with the greeks

i'd give them d'aulaires' book of greek myths and tintin, both very wholesome books to start with as a child

>>15832235
I don't think I'd give them a rainbow assortment of "fairy books"

>>15832235
By reading to them. Chapter a night. Classics and myths. I have fond memories of my mother reading the Iliad before bed while my father acted out (poorly and hilariously) the scenes behind her. It's important to read to your kids, especially when they're learning how to read. It was motivating to want to learn when you only got a chapter a night of a good story.

- have books
- read stories to them from a young age
- try to stimulate their curiosity by answering their incessant questions as much as humanly possible
- teach them to read and write their own name as soon as they're ~3-4
- from the moment they learn to read, always have a few children's books at hand that are at, or just above, their reading level

I wouldn't. I would let them experience the world first hand, before I bury their heads in a book. My library will always be open for them when curiosity strikes.

>>15832315
>>15832343
This. My mom would read to me and my sister all the goddamn time when we were kids and she’d also change her voice for the different characters sometimes. Even though she was a divorced Iranian mother who had to work all the goddamn time to keep us afloat, she still would find the time to read to us at night. Idk if she knew then how important it would be for our intellectual development, but man, she really managed to raise us right despite her impossible situation. Also she’d let us listen to a lot of audiobooks on tape of children’s stories and stuff like that. We’d go to the library all the time and she’d never hesitate to buy us a book we were interested in (even if we never got around to reading like 90% of them).

Basically, the key is to teach the kid that reading is fun and to have them experience that joy for themselves.

>>15832315
very confy post

>>15832343
b b b b based

Aesop's fables.

>>15832235
I honestly wouldn't give them a book written after 1950 with only a couple of exceptions.
(the same goes for history books)
I'd rather give them Victorian children's books and traditional folk tales.
Other than that, I'd do what my parents did; read to them before bed-time, encourage them to read but don't enforce it, and ensure that there's a good range to draw from.
>>15832315
>>15832343
these chaps are right on the money,

>>15832987
Based

>>15832315
that sounds deliciously wholesome

>>15832235
With Hegel of course.

My mom read me and my siblings The Hobbit before bed, and she would buy us all sorts of books growing up.
I wonder how different things will be now that kids have smartphones and tablets and videogames growing up

Take them to library once a week. I think that's what did it for me because my parents don't read at all. My mom used to go there to rent VHS tapes and would let me run around for a bit.

>Read to them from an early age
>Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, classic fairy tales and myths
>Keep house well stocked of books
>Always encourage and praise their curiosity (children ask the most important questions)
>Limit their exposure to technology for their early childhood years

>>15832235
With a stick

But more likely, stuff like goosebumps, the hobbit and comic books. I have 2 boys I hope they're better than me and start reading young

>>15833199
This is what my dad did. I've never read anything but Hegel to this day.

>>15833228
>>Limit their exposure to technology for their early childhood years
Keep them off the internet as much as possible until 12-14.
Don't give them a smartphone until they're at least 16.
Severely restrict what they can look at, specifically targeting pornography.

>>15832235
Like this

>>15833287
My 3 year old niece has her own ipad, shit sucks

>>15833307
My 4 or 5yo nephew has an iPad too. He's on it all day every day, it's fucked. Pissed off at my sister but can't tell her anything

>>15833307
>>15833321
The young kids have to learn how to use this stuff to keep up with their peers. It may seem totally fucked to people our age, but that’s just the way things are nowadays.

Lords of the Rings and Terry Pratchett.

>>15832256
This, definitely. I haven't read Pilgrim's Progress since Jr High, i bet it's better than i remember..

>>15832315
I read the Iliad and the Odyssey to my son and he loved it.
He's often asking me to read out loud some books I'm currently reading too. According to the content of the book, I do.

>>15832235

Ages 6-8:

Aesop's Fables
Roal Dahl (e.g. Danny Champion of the World)
The Famous Five series

Ages 9-11:

White Fang and Call of the Wild by Jack London
Treasure Island by Stevenson

Ages 12+

LOTR

>>15833212
My dad used to take me to the library every weekend, so I could read some books from the child section while he was reading magazines and books at the adult one. Met some good friends there too.

>>15832235
I would read them Charles Perrault, the Grimm brothers, le petit prince, I'd probably have them listen to Peter and the Wolf too; I would give them illustrated mythology books like the twelves labors of Heracles and the Bible, then books like stevenson's treasure island and Jules Verne, I would probably throw in some Marcel Aymé's books as well so they get a more precise understanding of social structures and human nature while reading books that still excite their imagination. Then I would watch as the "educational" system ruins all my effort before cops come to arrest me because I was educating my kid (already cause enough to lock me up) with white supremacist literature.

>>15833504
Oh and since someone mentioned Aesop, I would of course read them Lafontaine. The Aeneid could be captivating for kids too I think. Wonder if I could find some easy dialogues in Plato too, I'm sure kids would love socrates' dialectics if they understood it.

>>15833307
my friends little brother has an iphone at the age of 7.
He's going to be put on adhd medicine.
All the children I see have phones.
[insert something about the industrial revolution and its consequences here]

>>15833348
No.
I would rather raise mentally sound but slightly ostracized children than mentally unstable but connected children.
I wish my parents had kept me off the internet for longer.

>>15833667
*Cousin not brother.

>>15833348
They are increasingly easier to use, even apes can browse instagram. There's no need for early exposition to smartphones and such.

>>15832235
The same way I did to my brother.
No one will be able to argue with you if you are articulate and intelligent. Learn to fight your battles.

>>15832235
i am too logical to ever have children, i dont want them, but...
buy them piles of philosophy, debate, military, history, tactics, metacognition, technology, math and logic books.
tell them thinking many unique intelligent thoughts makes them smarter.
make sure they dont see books as a chore, they should see intelligence, creativity, originality and knowledge as the most important things, else you are an NPC.
teach them none of their beliefs/opinions should be arbitrary.
teach them other people's performance dont matter and to never be complacent.
tell them embarrassment and other emotions like that are to be overcome and kind of dont exist and that they should make their own books if they want to.
>>15832256
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>>15833401
no
>>15833287
thats child abuse, find another way or they will become bored at all times just sitting there doing nothing for years and will get used to it and be fine with doing nothing

>>15833959
>i am too logical to ever have children,

What?

>>15833990
it is illogical to have children. they do not benefit me. yes i see the problem here, that intelligent people dont breed=less intelligent people. its not my problem. i only serve me, not my genetic code.

>>15834008
I'm sort of happy you don't see the irony there.
Anyway, carry on.

>>15832235
My dad read the Hobbit aloud to me and my sister when we were kids and it sparked a love of reading in me. It's the perfect hero's journey for children and is written in that jovial conversational style that lends itself so well to being read aloud, and of course Tolkien himself wrote it for his own children. So I would do that.

Wouldn't. I'd keep good books with cool looking
covers around the house. Not too many, though.
They should learn to make decisions for thems-
elves and I should expect my values to be rejec-
ted in favor of a more progressive and enlighten-
ed understanding of the world. That is why I will
never have kids. I'm too regressive to raise any-
thing to function right. And it'll always be that w-
ay but actually having one would give me too m-
uch pride to see it.

>>15834008
They can benefit you with the rewarding process of raising them. Also having children can help maintaining mental health and stability

>>15834272
i refuse to create a child just to emotionally masturbate using them.
i refuse to fall for the genetic code's brainwashing.
it takes a lot of work to support them and that is not worth it.
i dont need mental health and stability.
i can not feel emotions like love for anyone, even a child i made because they are just a pile of flesh to me.
it would not help accomplish my goal of obliterating all sentient life.

>>15833391
Do you recommend any particular translations?

>>15834347
You're not smart, you're just a cringe autist

>>15834481
as a confident fool, how would you know if someone was wise? you wouldnt. anyone could come to these conclusions if they looked at everything logically, they could stop feeling illogical emotions.
resist the siren, a metaphor for reproduction if you know what a siren is.

>>15833959
Cringe

>>15832350
>Not reading to your children.

Your kids are gonna think you're a prude

>>15832235
imagine being so spooked that you give free labor and your own money, time, energy, and health towards raising someone else.

>>15832235
i'd read to them nightly, make sure they're always able to get whatever books they want, limit access to the internet,
>>15832315
>>15832404
this is what my mom did with me
>>15832310
based
i remember when i was a kid i always liked mythology and stuff, i read pretty much every mythology book in my school library
>>15833199
based

>>15834453
>Not reciting Homer in the original Greek to your kids from memory while playing the lyre

Guess if you're OK raising plebs....

>>15832235
I would make a point of reading around them while wearing badass sunglasses and smoking cigarettes so they would understand that reading was cool.

>>15832235
I have a lil bro who's 9, I'm 9 years older. I have my the hobbit book I'll give him when he's 11, that's when I read it

>>15832235
I'd read to them children's books in Latin that I've translated myself.

>>15832235
Greek and Roman Mythology, Kipling Jungle Books, Kim etc., LotR, Shakespeare. Get them playing MYFAROG.

>>15832235

>tfw my mom had almost all of these

Maybe my childhood wasn't that bad after all

>>15833959
Almost fell for this one

>>15832235
Get them to the library once a week, where I'd let them take all the comic books they want at the condition they'd also take one novel and actually read it.

Worked for me.

>>15832256
Fpbp

>>15832235
OP disregard all the other posts. Mine is the only acceptable response.

>>15832235
You don't need an elaborate plan from any of the clowns in this thread. All you need is to enjoy reading on a daily basis and your kids will automatically pick it up.

>>15832262
Based and Sherman Alexi pilled.

>>15832235
Half of you fags would end up making your kids hate reading if you give them heavy stuff first. Something like the hobbit would be good to read to them. When i was 7 or 8 i read that book around fifty times.

>>15832256
Gotta brainwash them when they are young

>>15832235
My diary desu

>>15833307
I'm slowly convincing my gf that our kids aren't getting iPads or smart phones til they're old enough to work for and buy their own. I'm currently ridding myself of my smartphone and reverting back to a brick, because it would be hypocritical to not let my kids have one if i still use one. These things are horrible for your attention span. Kids with iPads genuinely disgust me. Every time I see one cry because they have tk go without a screen, I feel implacable hatred, and an urge to bash their brains to globs

>>15832315
I used to hate the idea of read to kids, I don't know it seems so intimate but know that I am a /lit/ person I feel like you're right. First step is making a baby and, as a 25yo kv, it seems impossible.

>>15833959
I was the fairy book guy and I think you agreed with me

>>15832235
Don't let them spend all day on electronics, so they're forced to actually do something. From a young age, I'll talk about books as something fun and important; I'll imply that reading makes them better than other people. Simply having an enthusiastic attitude towards something has an enormous impact on your children. The issue is that our parenting culture was first a stern voice of reason tone, where you made a child do things that it didn't want to, because you knew what was best for them. Then, in rebellion against that, it became about fun and love. So whenever diet, education, good habits, etc came up, parents would just vent to their children about how much they hate those things. This is a total disaster to the young mind, as the child is pushed into unprincipled hedonism which is incapable of attaching to anything unless that thing is somehow able to become a part of the (now grown) child's identity.

For home education, I'd mostly just have a relaxed family chat type thing. I'd give brief overviews of topics or maybe we'd watch a presentation on it, and we'd discuss it. The art of unemotional discussion and reasoning is a great blessing that one can give to a child. Additionally, I would teach my children Latin.

>>15832235
I’ll read them the Bible and the Hobbit and probably some classic fairy tales like Rumpelstilkskin.

>>15833959
You're a psychopath, you're not "too logical", you're too autistic.

>>15832235
read to them from the second they're born, but honestly once they get older there's nothing you can do to force them to enjoy reading. Once they become their own person you have much less control over them. Forcing them to read will only make them feel like it's a chore. But there's a lot of studies showing that children who see their parents read a lot are more likely to read as a hobby themselves. Read to them, read and let them see you reading, and hope for the best.

This is a wholesome thread for the most part. I like it. As for my suggestion, tell them myths, legends, and adventure stories from a young age. Hercules and King Arthur are sure to strike a young kid's imagination.

>>15833199
Always good to start with the Greeks.

>>15832235
I would start by reading to them from a very young age. There's this documentary I saw a few years ago about a struggling bookstore in Japan, and at one point it showed a ~3 month old baby being read to from a storybook for the first time. The way he looked at the pictures really stuck with me, like he was mesmerized by every page. That was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen and I hope to share that experience with children of my own one day.

>>15832235
>If you were to raise a kid, how would you introduce them to books?
I would read aloud to them before they go to bed.

>>15832235
Read them book, my father read to me and my sister the lord of the ring entirely when I was 6,7.

>>15833565
Lafontaine is really great. I wonder how is it for non French people.

>>15836123
Kek

>be me
>be two
>mom reads me stories
>dad reads me stories
>one day find out can read stories if learn these letters things
>insist mom find me people who know about letters
>make mom sit outside a montessori for two hours everyday while making adults teach me letter sounds
>learn all letter sounds
>parents now obsolete for everything except sharp things and hot things
>make mom take me back to montessori because read about how their nature table is wrong in natgeo
>decide to get library card because montessori can't produce natgeo to understand how they are wrong
>library won't let two and a half year old join reference library
>make mom join and escort me to read natgeo for two hours a day
The answer is somewhere on the spectrum of produce stories to produce sperger.

>>15833679
what a based motherfucker

>>15832235
I don't know if it was a master plan by my mother or pure coincidence, but she was a teacher in literature and in possession of big library. When I was kid, she read me some books, but chose one night The Wind in the Willows which I hated so much I refused to be read any more stories by her. The hate fueled me to learn to read much earlier than my peers, so I can choose my own books to read, and I got 'head start' to more difficult literature which I could find in her library on my own.

FUCK the wind in the willows. Jesus Christ I'm still mad that I had to listen that shit book

>>15839205
>FUCK the wind in the willows.
You're wrong

>>15834347
To call yourself intelligent and then write that much edgy bullshit is embarrassing.

>>15832235
I am raising a kid. Pretty much whatever she's willing to read is fine, even if I don't like it (Diary of a Wimpy Kid..bleh). She is building literacy and fluency.

>>15837431
>t.

Magic tree house