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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Community 1 A - Domestic Blitz V By Dixie Brunner What are you reading into this? Lets cut through it mom, 99 ws F N . f'- WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28, 2000 were sporting a new Acceler- said one son. Why did you leave ated Reader every year a copy of War and Peace on the never the less! So why then is the most chalfront seat of my car? What makes you think that I lenging item on their recredid it, I responded innocently. ational reading list the shamBecause there was a copy of poo ingredients label? All Quiet on the Western Front Mom,, we read all the time, on my pillow last night...and a one son explained. Its just not masking-tape- d copy of Catcher the kind of stuff that you read. You mean that its not intelin the Rye in the shower stall. You need to start reading lectually stimulating material, more, I challenged. Your brain I respond testily. Its just plain is going to go to mush ifyou dont old sports...sports page, sport start reading more. statistics, Sport magazine.,. I dont know what youre talkArent you forgetting that I defended. I read the swimsuit edition of read. he about, ing The backs ofcereal boxes dont Sports Illustratedjust last year? You need to be reading good count. material, I said. y Yeah like you can talk, he Its a recurring cause of said. at our house reads Every book you read has to enough. Im a firm believer that have at least one murder and a reading is an essential require- demented psychotic killer in it. ment of higher thifiking. How Its entertaining. Gee whiz mom, maybe you are my sons going to turn into future Einsteins when the ex- ought to try and read about sometent of their reading lies on the thing a little less violent... like., football. sports page? need to that parents Experts say T-sh- irt Kanab now has quality "Take and Bake" Pizza made fresh at GLAZIERS Deli .- of Sports Illustrated just last year? Several weeks ago when our college son was home, I was looking all over for him to go out with me for a walk. Imagine my surprise when he told stomach. Im me he couldnt because he was probably the first woman to give reading a book. Oh some class requirement? birth to a baby who came out requesting Green Eggs and Ham I asked, taking notice that it for his first meal! wasnt a sports magazine, but set a good example for their chil-drebut Im not sure thats true. Ive been reading to our sons since before they were bom. Book after book, I would read to my n, ever-enlargi- ng When they were toddlers, Id follow the boys around reading to them. Oh sure, sometimes the material was over their heads, but I kept on reading anyway. I remember hearing one son telling a friend that his mom had just read him the Bible story about Pontius the pilot. When they were in elementary school, I always insisted that they participate in the library reading program. Fll allow that sometimes they did it just to appease me, but they rather a historic autobiography. No, I saw it at the library and thought it looked interesting... I was elated...could it be that all those years of Green Eggs and Ham have finally paid off? Was all the time I devoted to enriching my sons reading repertoire finally seeingits rewards...I was feeling a serious mother gloating coming on. What autobiography are you reading, anyway? The Life of Babe Ruth, he W".' flff M tilkl Chi Bake Some Up for the BIG GAME! Special Introductory Price! Cheese $3.99 One Topping - $4.99 Combo $5.49 $5.49 Veggie $5.99 Supreme - You Could Make A Toachdown And mm Stock up for the Super Bowl! TRIPLE PUNCHES Sat. Jan. 29 answered. I shouldhave known. Stone Signs - Landscape Rock Sandstone Slab & Willow Tables Sandblasted , Painted Stained & Sculpted Metal, Wood; Stone & Glass Art CVS ' mine-nobod- Arent you forgetting that I read the swimsuit edition -. VI On your Holiday CASH CARD All Day Long! No Limit! |
