Parenting Achievement Unlocked

Busted the kid again with a flashlight and a book past bedtime. *fistpump* YESSSS.
— Marko Kloos (@markokloos) October 3, 2013

When your kids get sneaky and deceptive in order to read books, you know that you've raised serious readers.

If my parents ever caught me reading under the covers with a flashlight, they never let on about it.

Marklo Kloos, the author of this tweet, is also a budding science fiction writer. He wrote Terms of Enlistment, an excellent military science fiction novel similar to Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

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I can't find the comment, so I know nobody pulled it. It's very possible to hit "cancel" when you meant "submit." I've done it myself.

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That's weird, I made a comment just a couple of minutes ago here with a more critical point of view on all of this and now it's gone.

Oh well :D

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My parents had to get all of the 7-8 flashlight I hid in my bed / plush toys, plus find a way to stop me from using the bedside lamp (I could reach the cable and plug it back in...). I had ok grades at school (8/10), it's just that I would read until... 5 or six in the morning ^^;

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My mom worried about me getting enough sleep, because she knew I read in bed until way late. But as long as I got up in the morning and kept my grades up, she didn't say anything. So that's they way I'm handling my kids, too.

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