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The joy of reading has decline sharply over the decades.
School age children and teenagers in secondary schools have shown poor pronunciation due to lack of practice in usage.
Pupils in Chinese and Malay medium schools do not speak fluent English anymore.
Teachers are utterly disappointed and dismayed that reading skills and interest of the younger generation had decreased .
Teenagers are spending most of their time focusing on the cellphone, while working, walking, eating, travelling, simply taking over their lifestyle.
Sending text messages , short videos to keep up with their friends and idols.
Verbal communication had “ceased” after Internet had been introduced to them.
School age children spend more time on apps games offline and online on cellphones and Ipads after school.
They are not interested in reading storybooks or school magazines because they are sick and tired of looking at school text books almost 6 hours daily at school.
Younger generations find that hard cover books, magazines and newspaper are “Boring” reading materials.
They could not even spend 20 minutes on reading.
Majority would rather look up online to read fiction stories, celebrity gossips, news around the world and engaging in Facebook, Instagram to “communicate” with friends, relatives and even strangers.
So, whose fault is it?
In our modern world, technology had overtook the growing children and teenagers interest off the reading materials.
Get yourself a cold glass of fruit juice or smoothie
Get yourself a warm cup of hot chocolate, coffee or tea
Find a cozy seat- sofa, chair, bed or hammock
A quiet and serene environment
It is sad to see that many people, children, teenagers, working adults and parents are not interesting in reading anymore.
People rely on electronic gadgets too much that they could not live a day without them.
Parents should initiate the first step, introducing reading any material, without electronic gadgets.
Borrow story books from the library, visit the book stores- spend a few hours sitting down reading the books, magazines for FREE.
Reading helps to increase a child’s knowledge in general and develop their creative minds which will help them to improve their pronunciation, speaking and writing skills.
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thanks, you can read my post under my profile
It is very true unfortunately that kids nowadays have no time for reading school books. Even the story books that our parents used to buy for us when we were younger so that we could improve on our English language, spellings and grammar, things that made us better are things that are not being done by parents nowadays. If I look back in the days parents had a day in everything that a child was doing and it was their word against the kids. No one had a right as such to decline what the parent said you just had to do it for your own goodness sake. So would I be wrong to say that parents nowadays are slacking behind when it comes to taking care of their kids? I don't think so .like you have said kids from the age of 5 spend so much time online, who teaches those kids how to operate those gadgets and how do they get hold of them is it not the parents in the pretends that they want their kids to be well informed and not slack back? If anything the best thing a parent would do for a child is to get them various books and teach them what the real world is all about.and not lie to them that the world is an easy place to be. It's only the parents that can decide what a child should and should not have not the other way round that is my opinion.
yes, if parents had initiated the first step, then children will follow suit later.
Back then, my parents couldn't afford to buy story books for me.
We had borrowed from libraries and got free old encyclopedias from my rich cousins.
We never had computers at home since we cannot afford one.
So that is how I got hooked to reading
@peachpurple It was great that we got a chance to be among books and develop a habit of reading. That helped in studies as well as even in Online writing and writing fiction stories.
The question now is how to bring back the interest in children to read stories. It will never be a question if there are good stories because we have lots of books and stories from the past up to now.
Maybe the parents should invest time to read some stories to their children. This one will develop their interest to read more stories. When I was a kid I love to read stories and now I am a writer.
true, parents should spend more time on reading books, newspapers to kids when they are young.
because once they becomes adult, they are not keen in reading anymore
Young generations are totally different nowadays. I do think that modern technology changed them into brats. They can't even try to open some books. If they do, it wasn't with best of effort. The out-of-school youth increases its incidence rate in my country. It is proportionate to decrease the volume of students at school due the abrupt implementation of K-12 educational system in the Philippines.
It cannot be denied. Some parents are having the tough time on how to deal with it. I can still remember the old school days. You cannot pass the test without burning the time at night especially if you are maintaining high grades to be included in the scholarship program in every schools in my country.
It is a fact that children are not interested in reading due to computer or YVs or movies all dancing on the screen before their eyes that is why reading trends in children are losing interest but I think it is a very serious matter we all must think abut this serious and dangerous matter what to do now?
f we want our young people to read, it won’t happen automatically. There are too many other fun things to do. But it’s not rocket science. If we care about reading, and if we put good books in front of students, and if we foster a love of reading, then young people will read.
Your life evolves into different sets of responsibilities, interests and aspirations that are reflected by how you utilize time. In other words, one day you were a readaholic and then next you discover internet video surfing which replaced your reading times. Surfing time became more important to you.
The best part of reading is that not only do you gain knowledge but the process of reading books helps unlocks different parts of your brain that enhances your ability to acquire different perceptions and interpretation about life that leads to deeper insight.
Let us think why children are losing interest in reading?