Sunday, February 24, 2008

Where and when to read

Why is it that some people can read in the car, and others (including me) can't. I can read words upside down or sideways sitting at home, but not anything on a train or car, or even for very long on a plane. All that wasted time when I could be reading!

Sometimes it even depends what I am trying to read that makes the difference if with my processing- I can't read textbooks after about 8:30pm when the children go to bed. I can read novels, and sometimes news, but as I sit a read assigned chapters, I just go over the same paragraph again and again, and nothing goes in. I was trying to glean some info from Whaley and Wong's Pediatric Nursing a couple nights ago- the classic text on the matter, and although I think I had some fair questions about why a bunch of the content is being taught in the class I am working with (do I need the students to know about Legg-Calve-Perthes disease), it really didn't matter because it was not being processed. So I had to read it again the next day.

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