After requesting for my mother to comment on my Reading Habits(you can find it on my blog here),she felt that she knew I would love reading after exposing me to all kinds of books when I was a innocent little child.She felt that my reading habits developed because of this main factor:constantly exposing me to storybooks.According to my mother,she knew that I loved fantasy and adventure storybooks from the very beginning.How is this possible?She knew it when I was at a tender.young age of 2 years old.Once,my mother said that she gave me 2 books,one with colourful pictures of happy and happy dragons while the other one contained picture of an apple with a delightful smile on its shiny red outer "covering".After minutes of careful observation on me (I could not remember anything as I was too young!),she said the 2 year old baby was constantly slapping the colourful graphic pictures of happy robots and dragons,a grin formed on my then chubby face.According to my mother,she also added that I did not glance at the book with the smiling apple afterwards,leaving the Apple book to lie forlornly in a corner.Instead,I continued to admire the beautifully illustrated pictures in awe,with wide opened eyes.This gave my mother a mentality instantaneously:When I grow up,I would concentrate my reading on fantasy and adventure storybooks.Her predictions were true as time flew past as I started to pick up more storybooks to fulfill my utter curiosity.She was delighted I had picked up reading as she feels that reading not only improves one's level of language,it also transports readers into another different world of fantasy and imagination,giving a reader to let their hair down from a hectic work or study schedule.It was like killing two birds with one stone.She felt that reading brings countless benefits to a reader and she felt that that was what had happened to me.
I was gals I had picked up reading.
Sorry Mr Spelmer that I accidentally put "gals" at the last sentence instead of "happy".It was because of the spell check that the computer gave me similar meanings of the word to me and I had accidentally picked "Gals".I apologise fo that mistake.
ReplyDeleteYou can edit your entry, even now. I read it as "glad" anyway. I certainly agree with your mom on how important reading is. Make sure you thank her for getting you started young!
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