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Selene's avatar

My younger sister hated reading growing up despite being from a family of readers. Our parents didn't read to me and I loved and love reading. They read to her from day 1. It wasn't until her 30s when she finally got into reading. Turns out she's one of those people without an internal dialogue which affected how she read. Audiobooks is how she finally got into books. Audiobooks and then a kindle and finding what she loves to read. And now she reads and listens to books all the time!

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Lori's avatar

Re: getting a 7 year old to love reading, I found that my kid really loved manga (Japanese comic books) when they were around that age and that was their gateway into reading. They're 21 now and a very avid reader of everything. So my advice is to try comics or audiobooks (perhaps even audio dramas that are completely dramatized) and see if your little one responds to a particular medium. My kid ended up being diagnosed with ADHD as a teenager, which explained a bit about their initial resistance. They just needed something to spark the love of reading and that made it easier for them to focus when reading regular books.

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