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Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I think that reading is important to us,teenagers. However, i also have some negative points. Reading books is important as it helps to build up our vocabulary so that we can use them in school essays. Reading newspapers also helps us to be updated about what happened. Reading helps to build up our fluency of english language and also encourages us to speak more english. BUT, i think that not all English books are suitable for tenagers. These books include romance books which displays love and affection between two characters of opposite sex. I think that these books are gross and cause teenagers to get into love life before the time is right. Thus, i find them unsuitable for us.In conclusion, i still thinks that reading is important for us as it helps to build up our knowledge and skills and we can read whenever and wherever we want (except during lessons :D)
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I do not agree with Salihin's point of view as i don't get it and finds it lame. Although we can read more about whats happening in online news, i still think that reading newspapers are more efficient as reading them online is quite troublesome and we can't do that in most places. Thus, reading newspapers are more convenient. :D
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I would have to believe it is important since my 10 year old grandson who is going into the fifth grade has 6 book reports due over the summer alone! I cannot think they're going to make the book reading requirements less than they are now so, yes, reading must be very important to teens.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

There's no reason for a downvote on this! We were asked a question, I answered it appropriately.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

It is very important to teenagers. They just don't do it that often. They get most most of theyre reading from blogs or other webpages, not nessisarily from books.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. We have only one life to live, if we can read, we can live as many lives as many kinds of lives we wish. I agree with this proverb: “Wear the old coat and buy the new book”. In my opinion, nowadays young people read books, newspapers and magazines less than in the past, because they prefer reading in the Internet more than reading books, they think books can damage to their health and they are not taught to read books since childhood. I’m going to say several reasons of my opinion. Firstly, the Internet is more popular than Books among young people. This is why the Internet is comfortable and convenient. People can find different information, videos, news, films, dictionaries and many other things online easily. In addition, Internet is less expensive than books.Secondly, books can damage to their health if they read in dark place. Of course, if people read books and newspapers in the dark they will be able to impair their eyes. However, we have modern technology that can create the light. I think we should not forget these proverbs: “You make your bed, you must live on”, “Where there is a will, there is a way”. If a person wants to read something very much, he will find a way to obtain or do it no matter how difficult it is. Thus, reading books cold be harm their eyes, if they read in the dark.Last, but not least, many young people are not taught to read books since childhood. I think that it is a big problem. For instance, nowadays a lot of parents don’t teach their children reading. Furthermore, pupils read books at school little, they prefer reading summary in the Internet to read books. According to Mark Twain, the man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read. I agree with him. Overall, the Internet is more popular than books, and we should teach our children to read more. Clearly, most young people don’t like reading books, magazines and newspapers, because the internet is more popular than books, teenagers think books can harm their health and unfortunately, they are not taught to read books since childhood. I remember a proverb: “Live and learn”. I agree with it absolutely, because today you are a reader, tomorrow you will become a leader. In short, Books are important to us, because it speaks to us, it is universal, and it affect us and we should read more in order to develop ourselves and be literate, educated and informed people.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

i think reading is very important as it create awareness regarding the situation.through internet we can just get appropriate answers but through reading books we can get details to that answer..................
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

it depends fro person to person. but most people i now love reading as much as i do. (i love reading by the way ;) )
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Reading is still important, however, teens prefer to read on their tablets or eReaders.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

Nope! That is incorrect. It is an incorrect statement backed up by no evidence. It's a generalization, and from my personal experience tends to not be true. Ok? Try again.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

Reading is still important to today's teenagers...However, the definition of reading has changed..As far as books go, cult fiction series are, for the most part, the only contestants(Twilight, Harry Potter)However, most teen reading isn't spent flipping a page in a book or even playing around on the Kindle (had to mention that), I do believe it's spent on the Internet. Reading forums, finding the latest electronic updates, and even celebrity gossip is beginning to entice young "readers"...Personally, I prefer to read up on Hawthorne, and I truly don't understand anyone who can read Twilight, Harry Potter, or anything like it, but to each his own, at least people read, right?
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

It's not that reading is not important, it's just not prioritized for most teenagers. In all fairness though, how important is reading to today's adults? I read on my breaks at my summer job, and my coworkers are all intrigued by this. Most of my friends read one, maybe two books a year and most of the books that they read are fluff writing. Teenagers at least, if they read even half of their assignments for school, are doing far better than that. For whatever reason, people just don't seem to like reading. Their loss.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

How important is reading to today's teenagers?I misread the question. I thought you were asking if today's teenagers VALUED reading. (Hence the reason I asked how much adults valued it)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adapted answer to my new interpretation: I think it's certainly important for teenagers to read. But I think it's important for everybody to read. Not just be literate, but actually use their brains for stimulation outside of the tv. I think there's this stigma attached to intelligence, where it is no longer valued the same way as it has been in history. And many people I meet every day are either ill-educated or ignorant. So yes, it's important for teenagers to read. It's also important for children and adults to read.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

I seriously don't think that reading is important for today's generation if it's only about knowing the outside world, as there is enough of technology available to tell them what is happening around them, and as long as it is about developing their vocabulary it can be done from any Grammar book available in the market because anyways no one uses it.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

Reading is important nowadays. In this modern era, we have advance technology which made many things that seemed impossible to be done happened. The advancement of the Internet and computers made the teenagers to have a much enjoyable life. Teens can get so many more things than they can get from a book from the Internet. Information and knowledge is been uploaded on the Internet and the teenagers can just read them by clicking. Learning will be much livelier when we can watch videos and play games to learn something. There are websites which will give plenty of information like “Wikipedia”. When we are reading a book, we are learning things in a much more boring way. Books provide information which was written by the writer and we will not learn more from the book. Teenagers are more familiar with the internet than the book as they are more exposed to the internet. Other electronic devices like mobile phone and PSP are being able to provide Internet services. The forums online might also be another reason. Teenagers can speak and share with the other people from all parts of the world. Sharing with others will be fun and we can learn more than a book can provide.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with you when you say that teenagers know more about the internet than a lot of adults do but the question i would like to raise is "how credible is the information that you get on the internet?" sites like wikipedia can be edited and information can be tampered with from any computer in any part of the world. Books on the other had are written after nerve wracking research and several proof readings. Therefore be careful with the internet literature!
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

i once tried to edit the information on wikipedia and i got blocked after giving false information. it took me a few month to be able to log onto the website. we can log on to the trustworthy website like wikipedia, CNN, and BBC etc.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

I think that this site is primarily filled with intelligent, liberal people- the kind of people that find reading to be VERY important, and felt so as teenagers. I attend an inner-city high school, where reading is much less important to many people than their next meal, their jobs, their families, where they can sleep, their gangs, a fight they’re going to be in, or even what clothes they want to wear. Many of my peers couldn’t sting together a grammatically correct sentence, and many can barely read- why would they enjoy something they struggle with when they have so many other things to worry about? When you can copy/paste homework, and be pushed up a grade even without the skills needed, many teens simply lack the ability to read for pleasure.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Happiness is priceless

I believe that for teenagers nowadays, reading serves one main purpose – entertainment. We are in the modern era and we can’t deny that there are a million and one things more interesting to do than reading. With the introduction of console games, mp3s and ipods, the popularity of books took a huge drop. I personally feel that reading is bland and dull. After all we have been reading all day at school so it seems like a chore to even flip another page. I would rather spend the free time to do something I enjoy, such as playing computer games. A book is only important as far as the information it carries is concerned. Can we not find these information on the internet? The importance of reading book stands, but the fact is that I have been reading them all my life and I’m getting rather sick of it.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I strongly disagree with you when you say that "A book is only important as far as the information it carries is concerned." Books are not just about information they are a trigger for thinking; let men give you an example. Have you ever talked to people who have just seen a movie made from a book and they have read the book before seeing the movie? In 9 cases out of ten, they will tell you, "The book was better." Have you ever wondered why they think so? I have been an avid reader all my life and I can tell you why this happens. It is because of the fact that a book allows you to think for yourself, it allows you to use your imagination to draw your own mental images and sounds and interpret the text "as you want to". when you see a movie this freedom is taken from you, all you do then is take in the sights and sounds. That is why i think that reading is important, it gives the brain room for CRITICAL and CREATIVE thinking.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

The fact that we get a lot of news from the Internet stays as it is ... But what will you do if there was no Internet ?? And the reading you do at school is different from the one you do at home .... How many teenagers read newspapers nowadays ?? Reading is fun when it is in paper not when it is in digital .... And how long can one read from the computer screen ?? At the end you will end up with an eye disorder ... !!!!!!
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

reading is for rich people...................................................................................................................................
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

What does money have to do with reading? ``````````````````````````````````
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with you when you say Money is not related to reading and would further justify and support your point that from a certain perspective, if you read more and apply what you read effectively...you may end up making more money!
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

Even when I don't agree with reading books I totally agree with kukla :D
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

who these days would want to waste time these days reading books when they have others things to spend time on like chat on FB follow on twitter and watch cool animes etc. also after studying it is pretty hectic to read and concentrate and understand when you do the same thing in studies. I don't think many people can prioritize it so watch movies and be happy :)
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

I agree ^
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

THANK YOU I seriously think that way about reading books. they are a waste of time.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I believe so, it should be used as a last resort at least because I being a sibling of three, was spanked along with my sister and turned out to be disciplined and on the other hand our youngest sister has never been spanked and she tends to make more mistakes even now that shes 10 than we did.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree, because by being disciplined you knew not to do what you did again because you knew the consequence.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

child that get spanked tend to be more respectful and sometimes when you don't they tend to be bad because they know you wont do nothing about it
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes you are right because if the child does something wrong and nothing ever happens to them they will think they will always get away with everything.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Your absolutely right. Most kids who don't get spanked, tend to be disrespectful because they weren't discipline properly.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

But just because they don't get spanked, don't mean they aren't disciplined..it just means they were disciplined in different ways instead of using violence
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

Their is a possibility that spanking wont do the job either. Many children that are not spanked are more respectful than children that are spanked. It all depends on the parents, they can choose not to spank and have strict rules and a trustworthy relationship with their child. The children that are disrespectful are the ones with the soft parents who let anything slide. The cause for disrespectful children is not because they are not spanked it is because they have soft parents.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

That's true because know we know what the consequences are and once a smaller sibling doesn't know then when the parents discipline them they have a complete different reaction!!
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, because then they wont do what they did in fear of getting spanked again. Since they will know the consequence. Although, there is also a line a parent shouldn't cross such as the appropriate spanking and abuse line.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree, a parent should know that there is a boundary between spanking and abuse that they shouldn't cross.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

But what if the child gets used to spankings and isn't afraid anymore?
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Agreed, but if you get spanked with a belt isn't abuse , getting spanked with the belt is a stronger way to show discipline , your hand wont work all the time , and sometimes just pulling out the belt will make them stop.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

To a degree I do agree. There should be a line that the parents shouldn't cross and as long as they don't cross it and ensure the child only learns from it then it's okay.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, for example when a child does something wrong and parents spank them the child knows not to do it again because they know the consequences of it.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree with you because what you said is true. A child will learn once they've been spanked.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes , because if they are afraid of getting spanked then they won't do it again . The parent should only spank them and not go over board and keep hitting them .
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I believe children can avoid doing the same mistakes if they are scared of getting spanked.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I totally agree with you, but there are those parents who would go overboard with spanking.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I think parents should use spanking as an option to discipline but there is also a limit for everything so they shouldn't use it every time the kids do something wrong.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree! Some parents should not spank their children for every little thing.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

spanking can be sometimes good for the child to understand but not to the point where you can hurt and should not be used repeatedly
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

It shouldn't be used constantly but it should be used to get the message across to the child
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

After I was spanked, I never did the same thing twice.. So therefore I would spank my kids, out of love, and on the butt.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

Though i respect your argument i disagree because I believe that when hitting a child you are not teaching them not to, but rather scaring them.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I agree because even though some people think that spanking is violence it's not because it actually settles discipline.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I say yes because children are getting more and more violent and they need to get discipline if they decide to act up.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

They get aggressive because they see violence. Children shouldn't be spanked. Some don't learn.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

They get violent because they get it from games. If the parents are too soft then they will grow up thinking they can do whatever they want without limits.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

no but. thats why u should teach them how to behave...and there are other ways than spankin...
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

That is very true,they need discipline because now a days it's "cool" to be bad and they need to learn that this is not true.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree, spanking them will teach them a lesson and they won;t act up anymore.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

There are other ways to teach the kid what is right and what is wrong.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I think children are getting more violent because they learn tht hitting is good cause it teaches the other person a lesson which created fighting
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

One spank for bad behavior will not hurt. However, when they use belts repeatedly, that's a problem.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

once they continuously get beat by a belt its considered abuse to a certain extent. i understand where your coming from.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, I agree with that one. With belts you can't know how much you are hurting them. And I think that's too much pain to inflict.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

Yeah, I understand that a belt might hurt. However, why even spank them when you can talk or use other alternatives with them?