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What's up with podcasts? I tried once but I get too bored listening to someone talking while I so anything else.
Try listening during your commute
You are supposed to listen to something that you enjoy. Maybe news, gaming, history, crime story podcast or audiobooks. You can listen to it while commuting or doing chores.
Find one where someone interviews a person who's work interests you.
Maybe a musician or author you like or someone like that.
I only listen to podcasts for particularly interesting topics. One of my favourites was Sold a Story, which is about the complete failure of a reading system that is "whole word" or "whole language". Taking phonics away from kids was a huge mistake and why so many people are barely literate now.
Taught / teaching my boys to read with OLD phonics books (some non-PC shit in old "kids" books). 7yo is just about to finish Harry Potter and reads other books constantly. The soon to be 5yo is just starting his reading journey....is reading 1, 2 & 3 letter words quite well, gets better every day.
No TV and parents valuing reading as both entertainment and information, are the keys to getting kids to read.
Do kids even still do TV? I figured they'd all be on YouTube or something by this point.