Don't bother me, I'm reading TV
Great news, everyone! When it comes to your child's next reading assignment, you might not even have to go to the library. Just have your kid turn on the television and enable the subtitles.
Turn down the volume, heat up some hot cocoa, wrap up in one of those soft, microfiber blankets and read a good television sitcom.
At my son's school, Seminole Middle in Plantation, the students have been informed that this is a suitable alternative to reading something that is on the printed page.
Last week I wrote about the disappearance of books, supplanted by books on CD.
Well now you don't even need a computer -- most of you do have a tv or two or three or four, don't you
If any one of you can tell me how to enable the subtitles I will do so for my son, so he can read this season's episodes of The Simpsons.
I think I'll ask the teachers if he can read that crawler on CNN instead of clipping an article from the paper for his Current Events assignment, too.
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