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My kids are addicted to reading and I don't like it. Reading is great but not at the expense of staying up until 3am on a school night, not helping with basic household chores, not practicing music, not doing homework.

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I feel this. When I envisioned having kids, I never envisioned having to tell them a dozen times per day to "put the book away!" I accept that it's a relatively good problem to have, but there are absolutely inappropriate times and places to be looking at a book for pleasure, absorbed to the point of losing track of time and not hearing any directions given.

I think all of those downsides may be frustrating in the moment, but will turn out to be much less important, when viewed in the longer term.

I honestly think that parents enjoy depriving their kids of experiences because it's how they were raised.

Big deal they are staying up late. Let them sleep in on the weekend to make up the difference.

That's not how it works for sleep though.

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