How I taught reading without books

I taught our son about the importance of reading without the use of books

How can that be? You must be fooling me.

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No. No. I would not try to fool you.

Here is one example.

On Fridays, after morning pre-school, I stopped at the closest fast-food joint and ordered our lunch.

I would use the drive-thru, and our son sat in the seat closest to the pickup window. He would be handed the receipt with our food.

I would read the items on the receipt, and he would look inside the bag and let me know it was there.

Once there was a missing French fry. He got the server's attention, told him, and asked for another.

While driving off, I said, “See, when you know how to read, nobody can forget to give you everything you paid for.”

And that is one way I used to teach the importance of reading.

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