It's kinda like that part in every job interview where they ask you about your weaknesses and you come up with one of those "good" flaws, like work too hard/long, perfectionism, etc., trying to show off to your potential new employer while you both know it's not really a flaw in the same way always late, lazy, doesn't return calls/email, might be.
But still: Bud and Sis are reading too much.
They both stay up way past SQUIRT time is over, indicated by their clock turning blue. Sometimes we even have to go in more than once to remind them to put the books down.
If they wake in the middle of the night for anything less than a nightmare, they will turn on their lamps and read some.
And Bud even wakes up early, before 6 a.m., to continue his reading!
Which means, with everything else the same, they're losing some sleep each night. You'd think we didn't let them read any other time! Except they do read--in the times between finishing getting dressed and eating breakfast, eating breakfast and getting out to the bus, sometimes even on the bus, at school, and then oftentimes right after school and before dinner!!!
No wonder they're going through about 10 books, mostly actual chapter books, per kid a week from the library. (And, yes, we're usually book buyers but who wants to pay for all that? Especially because most of them are "twinkies" they'll never read again.) Sometimes it's more than one a day.
And they've got the circles under their eyes to prove it.
We even stockpile paper bookmarks because they sometimes have more than one book going at a time and we used to run out of our nice ones; more than that, the bookmarks would get left in the library books.
But just as I've read that you're not supposed to wake a sleeping baby (okay, I did that), you shouldn't interrupt a reading child.
Because, I suppose, even not in moderation, it's a very good problem to have.
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