Petersburg teacher Rimma Rappoport wrote very necessary and very sad book "I don't want to want. What prevents the child to love the book "(individuum). Sad for such parents like me.
Because I learned the letters at three years, exploring the keyboard of the father's typewriter, and at five I already read what our parents, grandparents offered, and in eleven years old - about everything that came to her arm. Jack London came under his arm, and Vladislav Kapivin, and not to the end of understandable, but very entertaining Ilf and Petrov, and the Small Soviet Encyclopedia, and a big medical (however, to lie, in the medical encyclopedia I didn't have any texts at all), and "As we saved Chelyuskintsev," and "Legends and myths of ancient Greece", and Pushkin, and Karel Chapec, and fragments from the Kyrgyz epic "Manas". We must admit that since then, my reader strategies have not changed very much. But here is my younger, the 11-year-old son, having communicated after school with his parents, does not take a book from the shelves, and Ironically reports: "Now I will go to toxic Comuniti Tictock," what does. At the site of Titock can be "minecraft" or anime. Of course, he reads and not only what is needed for school, but in my opinion, depressingly little.
Yes, yes, I understand everything perfectly. Changed times and cultural contexts. Dramatic changed the amount of information available. And with all his love for reading, I honestly must admit that I don't know how to behave myself, if I have access to any movies, cartoons and all possible games. The way my peers grew, in no case can not be considered an ideal model. Moreover, today it seems to me that we generally played very little, even at the age when the game and socialization is more important than the acquisition of knowledge. The father of a classmate of my son who grown in the GDR came out somehow told me: "If we compare us with peers from Germany, we got much more knowledge, especially in accurate and natural sciences. But we totally inferior to them in the amount and quality of social skills. " It's like that. But neither understanding, no gigabytes read on this occasion do not help me get rid of the belief that in childhood you need to read a lot. Much more than my youngest son reads.
Here, my older children, those who for 20, if they stood behind my back and peered into the monitor, had to say: "Father, relax. We ourselves at 11 years old read only "Warper Cats". And nothing, gradually reached a variety of treasures of world literature and other sources of knowledge and read in various languages. " All so, cute children. I know that these my fears and experiences are not your problem, but only mine.
Rimma Rappoport extremely makes the diagnosis of such as I speaking about my own parent and pedagogical experience: "I really want my daughter to love to read. It is important for me to raise a person with whom you can talk about literature, divide the joy of good poems. And what will happen if it does not work? One day I will return from work, and the child in one hand has a tablet, to another - smartphone, and instead of a rich inner world of solid tits. Not that in this picture there was something really terrible, but I am sad from her. " And this is the most "sad" rappoporth accurately exactly calls moral panic: "In sum with a sustainable myth about the reading country itself, which we in the" terrible "1990s lost, and with the development of the Internet and technologies almost buried, and moral panic is born, and or reader's trauma of the post-Soviet parent. As it originated, in general, it is clear, but how to treat - absolutely unclear. "
Of course, in the book of Rappoport, it is not only about how and why children do not read, but also the fact that you can do in connection with this, at least parents of those children who are just starting to read, and younger students. For example, a rappoport explains why it is not scary to teach a child to read in 6 or 7 years and at the same time why it is still important to read not only readers, but also paper books.
But still it seems to me that it is fundamentally important how the problem itself is formulated in "read". It is not only in the number of read pages and the volume of acquired knowledge. Rappoport, by the way, suggests that the main personal acquisition from reading is not at all knowledge, but the development of emotional intelligence, which "affects the success of a person to a greater extent than the intellect ratio and good study." In addition, reading fiction is better than anything, helps to pump decoding skills, or interpretation, which is important for a realistic assessment of oneself and the surrounding world. And this is the most significant.
My father's feet is a fear of communication gap. My parents and I grew up with all the difference between the epoch, in general, in the same world and operate with the same set of values and quotes. And the matter is not even that memes came to the place of the quotation, and the images have become more popular text. Parents like me are afraid that the intellectual distance between us and our children will grow more and more. Even keeping the warmest relationship, we will talk about different and differently. This distance is not reduced even by the most friendly propaganda of reading - neither globally or within the same family. It is possible that a new Joan Rowling will appear, which will return to children interest in reading, but I believe it with difficulty. Pesteriana rejected children from televisions, competed with the worlds built on interactivity, much more difficult. This fundamentally new situation requires some completely different strategy, the total re-entering of parental behavior, in which the idea of reading as the basis of intellectual life will not be central. I do not like this. I'm afraid of that. I'm not ready for this. It seems that I have no choice.