Books or Video Games

I’ve been reading books all my life. When I was younger, I went through the book collection available to me at home rapidly (Ludlum, Sidney Sheldon etc)and moved on to several volumes of Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High, Sweet Dreams, Harlequin Romances and Mills and Boon.

My childhood memories comprise lying on the couch all day just digesting one story after another. Some call it escapism, some call it being a bookworm, some call it GEEKY… but it all amounts to the same thing.

It’s not surprising that I became a compulsive reader. I would read the labels of spices and virtually anything and everything I can get my hands on. I learned French so I can read the French version of the writings on the label of foodstuffs.

But now that I’m a mom, I realize that I only turned to books because there weren’t any video games during that time. If there were (I think Atari counts as a video game, but it was so blah that I didn’t even like it), I wouldn’t have been addicted to books.

My son is into books, but only those he has to read like school assignments. This is because there’s the OPTION to play a video game or watch a video. I thought about doing away with these digital things in the past, but considering my hubby’s a tech freak, we can’t.

But we’re still trying to get him into more books. Little by little, we’re teaching him how.