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Librocubicularist: one who reads in bed. I remember getting spanked for reading under the covers.With lamp, naturally. I suppose my mother worried lamp might ignite sheets.
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Librocubicularist: one who reads in bed.
Geez, Dr Bill, you keep coming up with new words to desribe me. I won't tell a story in this one, just see my post in the "Summer Reading" thread...
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Bill, are you sure she just wasn't worried that you'd go blind. My mom would tell me that ALL THE TIME. "Don't read with the flashlight you'll go blind". I wonder if it's true?
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did you go blind? or stop reading with a flash light?
my son did set the sheets on fire reading with the lamp under the covers! he put the flames out before he did much damage.. but i did notice the hole in the sheet!
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we provided our three boys with reading lamps, and encourage them to read in bed!
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Even during my peanut butter days, books were the one thing I never refused my son. A child can have too many toys but NEVER too many books.
It helped tremendously. A teacher once told me that one of the reasons he did so well in school was that he read so much.
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Nobody(not just kids) can ever have too many books!
we had such a nice time this evening during the t-storm; the Playstation was off-limits(so was the iMac...), and all three boys found books to read. quietest moment all day... beautiful. ah summer...
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"Don't read with the flashlight you'll go blind". I wonder if it's true?
Not true, belM - but also not entirely untrue. Straining tired eyes, especially using inadequate artificial light, is in no way good for them. In some cases it can lead to damage.
At the end of the day the eye is a part of the body and is operated by muscles. As such it can be strained, as a consequence of which it needs resting time. Given that we simply must read every day (and kids at school, we would hope, read plenty), it can be hard for the eye to get adequate recovery time.
In some cases, the eyes' temporary tiredness has (certainly in the past) been taken as a permanent feature, meaning that spectacles get prescribed when they're not strictly necessary. Then the eye accomodates to the specs and they gradually become a permanent feature etc.
Yes, I used to love reading at night - I can vividly remember staying up until the early hours of the morning reading War Of The Worlds at around 10 years old (and eyes going very hazy) - but I wonder sometimes, if I hadn't been such a manic reader, would I still be as short-sighted now?
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"I remember getting spanked for reading under the covers. With lamp, naturally"
You and me both Dr Bill!
I remember being so excited staying at a friend's place - the transformer for their electric blanket had such a bright glow I could half hang out of the bed and read all I liked!
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Even during my peanut butter days, books were the one thing I never refused my son. A child can have too many toys but NEVER too many books.Amen. ........You may have tangible wealth untold;
........Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
........Richer than I you can never be-
........I had a Mother who read to me.Entire poem is at http://petecol.mybravenet.com/gillilan.html#mother
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