Showing posts with label teenagers reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teenagers reading. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Always on Alert

They tell you when your children hit their teen years -- watch out!
Be aware!
Look for changes in behavior.
It could be a sign.
And that's why, last week, when I came home from work and my just-out-of-his-teen-years son had been home alone, I immediately noticed.
Something that I'd last seen tucked away in the basement was on the dining room table.


I pushed aside the thoughts that I might immediately jump to.
But a few days later, I came home and found more evidence. This on the table.

Since the book was left open, I could no longer ignore the obvious evidence.
Tucker is reading again.
No more gorging himself only on Twitter, SnapChat and Instagram.
He may have started with a comic book that he loved as a child, but he has gone on to full-blown novels and even asked if he could have Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five when I was preparing to donate it.
Something's afoot here, and I'm one top of it.

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