I never said that reading an old fashioned book to your kids was BAD. Re-read my post, if you must. But you should have really gotten that reading comprehension thing down in grade school. Must have been poor parenting. What I said was that encouraging your KID to do the reading is BETTER. If I sit with my child, and teach her to read and record HER VOICE reading a book, and then sit with her and show her how to play it back and encourage her to read it along with herself, then I think I'm giving her the "attention she's craving."
In other words, for all of the slow Europeans out there, it's better to encourage your kid to do the reading than for you to read to them. Reading to them is still very good, don't get me wrong. But I think if we can "enhance" the books so the kids are learning and being encouraged to do the reading themselves, that's better. But what do I know? I only spent ~30 years of my life in school, getting an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering, a masters degree in biomedical engineering and a medical degree. Oh, and I also have an Internal Medicine residency under my belt. But it's not like I know anything about reading, education, taking standardized tests, or performing in an academic environment.
But thank you for trying to explain to me how to educate and care for my daughter. I suppose that's why the US dollar is not the world's reserve currency and why we don't have any innovative citizens, companies or products. Oh wait!
Do you understand that yet, or do you have some other smarta$$ remark to make?