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From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: learning to read at an early age. - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 16:39:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 20 16:39:00 1983
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Nf-From: uicsl!wombat    Nov 20 15:39:00 1983

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uicsl!wombat    Nov 20 15:39:00 1983

I don't think it's that valid (that people who read a lot as children
end up wearing glasses). I think in my family it's more easily explained
by the fact that I (having one nearsighted eye) take after my mom's side,
which is notorious for bad eyesight, and my two brothers (with "average"
eyes) take after my dad's side, which in general, has fairly good
eyesight. True, I've always read more than they have, but might it
not be just as valid to say that kids with poor sight are more
likely to turn to a book, which they can hold at any distance they
like, than to spend all day playing ball, where other kids will
laugh at them for being so klutzy? Many times, children's eyesight
problems aren't detected for years, and by then habits have formed.
						Wombat
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