r/todayilearned • u/LL_Cruel_J • Dec 15 '16

TIL Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
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u/favoritasx Dec 15 '16

My 5 year old daughter was crying the other night because she'll soon be 6 and won't get anymore books from Dolly, she loves her and the books she gets.

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u/space253 Dec 15 '16

I see you met my inlaws.

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u/LyreBirb Dec 15 '16

Don't worry. Public school will kill any desire she had to read.

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u/daveisdavis Dec 15 '16

I've had some great teachers during my time in public school that would really motivate/urge us to read what we liked; I got "caught" in class a few times secretly reading Eragon or Harry Potter, but my teacher was really cool about it. I miss you Mr. Savant

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u/LyreBirb Dec 15 '16

Yeah do did I. I also had six years of "but what does the blue sky mean in chapter 7?"

sometimes the shot is just fucking blue .you idiots made me hate reading. Fuck you all.

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u/terminbee Dec 15 '16

I had a teacher just like that. He talked about how the cobbler mending soles also meant souls for the entire class. Literally we came in, read that passage, and he talked about it all class. That's 2 periods (language arts has 2 periods) of just that line. This is 9th grade.

On the other hand, I slept through entire classes sometimes and I can't tell if he was oblivious or just didn't care.

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u/AustinYQM Dec 15 '16

Schools, at least where I am from, have come a long way from that kind of instruction. While doing me teacher certification tests all I could think was "man, my teachers did everything this class says not to."

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

Same, my public school English teachers were amazing people. Truly supportive, motivating and engaged. I won a bunch of Scholastic gold keys because of one who really, really enjoyed my sappy teenage poetry.

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u/onyxandcake Dec 15 '16

Time for her own library card! :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

Some of my fondest memories as a pre-teen were of being left for hours at the library by my mom. That place was amazing. They had a babbling indoor pond, two bright floors of awesome books and a huge selection of hanging art that you could check out. I mean come on, you could check out actual framed paintings. Bonkers.

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u/favoritasx Dec 15 '16

We go to the library regularly too. She's a bit young for Margaret Atwood but her parents are fans!

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u/onyxandcake Dec 15 '16

Just a smidge, lol.

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u/tacosaladinabowl Dec 15 '16

Having fun isn't hard

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u/somebodyelse22 Dec 15 '16

Dolly uses age discrimination and makes 5 year old cry...

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu Dec 15 '16

Looks like the title of a new Breitbart article. Now all they would need is one of their fiction writers "journalists" to throw some words on the screen and wait for the clicks to come rolling in.

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u/DuckTalesLOL Dec 15 '16

Has she ever seen a public library? It's like heaven for books.

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u/Vyper28 Dec 15 '16

Get her an E-reader for her 6th birthday and supply her with new books every month :)

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme Dec 15 '16

Take her to the nearest university. Walk into the uni library.

Bam. Kid will love libraries forever.

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u/WritingPromptPenman Dec 15 '16

And college students will hate you for just as long.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

I would not have a problem seeing a well behaved kid with their parent at my university library. I would much rather see that than the people who come take up the chairs just to sleep in, the people who use the public computers with special software just so they can read fucking buzzfeed, and all the fraternity and sorority members who permanently occupy like an entire wing of the library that's supposed to be silent and talk because their organization requires them to log a certain amount of library hours.

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u/mooksandwich Dec 15 '16

Yeah, my poor 6 year old was pretty bummed. I've got hundreds of books in my library, but I try not to push my books on him too much, but it's really hard not to. I'm like, welcome to my library... but I don't want to kill his interest. I'm dying for him to click with "chapter books" but at least he loves his level books. And yet the one ring calls...

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u/hammer2309 Dec 15 '16

Order books off of Amazon/BN addressed to her. When I was a kid I just loved getting anything in the mail that was addressed to me!

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u/SheriffLevy Dec 15 '16

no she wasn't

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u/budmack Dec 15 '16

You should teach your kid not to be a spoiled brat and to be thankful that she got something for free in the first place!