Bedtime Stories

[fauxklore]

Here is a brief childhood tidbit. This is pretty obviously something I've been told, rather than something I actually remember.

When I was born, my father worked during the day and went to college at night. He knew it was good to read to his children, but between work and school, he didn't have a lot of free time. He figured that we were too young to really understand what he was reading, so Dad read to my brother and me from his textbooks. My brother is a year and a half older than I am, so he would have gotten mathematics books, while my bedtime stories came from things like Intro to Electronics and Principles of Cost Accounting for Engineers.

This may or may not have had some influence on our adult lives.

Comments

[snippy]

That's a good story.

[cellio]

laugh

If he figured you were too young to understand anyway, why choose topics based on the ages of you and your brother? Sounds to me like he didn't completely believe that. :-)

[fauxklore]

No, what I meant is that my brother got the textbooks Dad was using a year or two earlier. By the time he was reading to me, Mom was reading him things he could actually understand.

[cellio]

Oh, a time component -- missed that. That makes much more sense. :-)