Boy, meet Books...

This article written recently on the Wall Street Journal online might better have been titled, "How to Be Sure Your Boys Never Read." It is a fascinating, and slightly disturbing, article discussing the modern trend of "doing whatever" to entice learning. In this particular case, using "potty talk," as we call it in my house, to trick boys into reading.

The author, Thomas Spence, further elaborates on the literacy gap that occurs between boys and girls as being the result of, essentially, too much dumbing down of literature. (Not to mention the problem of too many hours glued to the screen playing video games.) It is interesting to note that the author does end with a fascinating tidbit -

I offer a final piece of evidence that is perhaps unanswerable: There is no literacy gap between home-schooled boys and girls.

I LOVE how he says this idea of "no literacy gap" is unanswerable. Dear Mr. Spence, shall I show you the magic of homeschool?