Building a home library

Don't be such a tyrant, man. Show some real quality books to your children, but if they don't enjoy it, don't force it. Otherwise they'll grow up hating lit

Exactly. Having cool looking books and an aesthetic library is good. Read them bedtime stories every night. Read together nightly when they are old enough. Make it a parental bonding thing.

But the restrictions are a bit much. Limiting gaming is all right, but movies in two sittings in a locked room is a bit much.

Kids here stay at school until 6pm. A couple of hours for studying/homework leaves a half hour for supper and two hours for entertainment depending on chores. An hour of games/video I think is fair since kids need at least a bit of that. The manga is mostly for them to take on the road as light reading. I figure they'll spend about an hour in the library on weeknights and a few hours a day on weekends.

Your children will hate you

If you have to make a choice, film>games.

I already have kids.

The two hours studying schoolwork is sacrosanct. Maybe I can let them watch a full movie on their own on weekends, but they simply don't have time on weeknights without cutting into time they should be reading or out with friends. Time here is tighter and frankly most movies aren't worth the runtime.

It doesn't take two hours to finish homework. If they really are in school till 6, and them have to do two hours homework, they are going to be miserable. Until they're in highschool doing actual essays homework should take about twenty minutes tops.

You can't force your kids to be smart.

Manga? -> pathetic
Get your kids to grow up as weebos is what will happen.

Works for East Asian students.

You sound like an overbearing control freak. Your kids will leave home as soon as they turn 16 and never read again.

When autism is left to raise children

I'm glad my parents weren't autistic like you so I was able to grow into my own interests

>Childrens, young adult and genre.
>Barnes and Nobles leatherbound.

Consider suicide faggot.

>You can't force your kids to be smart.
This desu

It's normal here.

For their hour they can choose to watch an episode or two of a TV show, watch most of a movie, or play video games. There isn't time for any more than that. All I'm asking is they spend half their free time reading or playing outside.

They are all raised similarly over there. And all your kids friends will have far less restrictions than yours. They will know this and grow to resent you and reading too.

Unless your in a country where that is the norm (in which case go for it), this is not a good idea. You are valuing their intelligence over their happiness.

Forcing shit on your kids and regulating their behaviour above a level that is neither strict or "do whatever you want' tier is a surefire way to raise reactionary kids who rebel against everything you teach them.

*you're

Where is here?

>what is the Asian education system

They're half Japanese. Kids read manga here.

>Half Japanese
I take it back then

Wow.

What are you you talking about? Most kids here go to cram school after clubs.

Two hours studying/homework is relatively slack and if they finish their homework early or have none that can go toward freetime.

So I assume the reason you've not said where you've moved is because it's Japan. It's okay OP, everyone's judging you anyway.

If you want advice on what book editions to get, as you ask in the OP before devolving into just talking about how you'll raise the kids, for most books it really doesn't matter. You want to appeal to the eye, so just go for the covers you like. has the right idea for getting them interested: make reading seem fun rather than scheduled like a chore or they'll hate it.

Also, trying so hard to fit into the Japanese education system is a bum goal from the get go. They're half, so they're screwed by the culture anyway. At least try and let them choose their own fun.

Op is a fag and reminder your kids grow up stupid if they read nothing but schlocky paperbacks

Your son will read anne rice and cut his dick off you idiot

Is there any guide to quality film? Assuming it's not just sorting IMDB from top which i've been doing already.

Holy fuck get out of Veeky Forums you filthy pseud

Man I went to school with kids who played three or four hours of video games a night. I'm not raising that kid.

Japan. I'm worried about the kids not learning English so having a ton of English books around seems like a good idea.

Interview with the Vampire isn't that bad of a novel.

Anne rice is as bad as tom clancy or twilight. You are an idiot foe thinking itherwise

Your kids are going to hate you. Let them read kids stuff as kids, not your "cultured" bullshit that only midwits like you enjoy

Your kids barely have any free time as it is. Why not let them do what they want? If you make reading into a chore, you won't "raise a reader," you'll raise a kid who associates reading with his pedant of a father.

This. Op, let them do what they want as long as it isnt gay porn.

If you force them to do what you want, not only will they become more aware that your ideas are stupid and worthless (no, your literature selection is NOT good and they can see that from a mile away) they will come to HATE you for forcing YOUR bad decisions onto them. They will smell the raw vanity that makes you angry at them when they dont waste time on your hobbies

You are literally jumping out of the frying pan of being a mediocre parent and into the fire of one of the worst mistakes a parent can make.

Maybe YOU should read a parenting book you idiot.

This is literally some of the worst parenting ive ever heard of. I should expect nothing less from the emotional wrecks on 4chinz

This

Also, what the fuck? 6pm? Why so much time?

Thats just asia, user.

Hey OP heres an idea, ratherRthan waste hundreds a month in a library, how about you SAVE that momey so your kids can have an inheritance you idiot.

THEN you take them to the library so they can choose 2 books in english.

Jesus fuck, you must be mentally disabled and your partner is mentqlly disabled for choosing you. Maybe you should invest in autism treatments. Your kids are gonna come out retardrd like you.

This is why China has overtaken the West in academics, scientific discoveries, intelligence and engineering.

And misery

lol

No.

They'll have an hour of optional electronic entertainment, and another hour of non-electronic freetime during which they can read if they want, plus any bonus time from finishing homework taken out of their two hours study time as added freetime.

Five hours of TV/movies/video games a night is retarded.

Yeah because Japanese libraries stock so many English books.

I'm also building the library for myself you know.

I can afford to both build a library and give my children an inheritance.

False.

>Five hours of TV/movies/video games a night is retarded.
No one is suggesting this. There is a middle ground between your extreme and the one you are suggesting here.

Let them watch a movie every now and then. Not every night, sure, but every now and then. For fuck sake, you're in Japan, a nation that has made some of the best movies ever.

Read to them/read together/encourage them to read (delete as appropriate depending on age) before bed every night. Make it organic, make it fun, make it a bonding exercise. Encourage them to love it. Force it on them and they will hate it and drop it as soon as they can.

Movies are shit.

>Man I went to school with kids who played three or four hours of video games a night.

and the chances are that 99% of them turned out ok

>I'm worried about the kids not learning English so having a ton of English books around seems like a good idea.
> that bad of a

you should read a few of those english books yourself

Starting in junior high, kids get out of school at 3pm and stay until around 6pm doing club stuff (younger grades sometimes leave at 5pm). Clubs are pretty much mandatory here, as is studying at least 2 hours a night. High schools and universities here have very competitive admissions tests. The kids have to learn a ton of kanji and stuff, which takes time. Knowing English will be a huge advantage for my kids. And no I'm not going to let them bomb their admissions tests and drop out just because they're hafus. I don't care if they go to university but I'd like them to go to college.

Put it this way - they are schooling for most of their lives already. They're free time is extremely precious to them. Let them enjoy it. That doesn't mean hours of video games. Just make the reading time fun and they will become readers in their own time.

It's parents like OP which creates Nevada-chans

Cringing for the father, crying for the children. The worst thing is that OP's ego is so inflated that there's no way to actually let him understand that he's totally wrong about how knowledge arises, how people develop interests... he is creating a comfort zone that will create bored, hateful children - not a fertile place ready to adapt to their minds and connect with them.

Yeah. They are already in a very intense education system.

OP's main concern should be making reading fun. What he's doing is making it a chore.

Step 2 of your downs syndrome plan is where will you fit this library? Homes in japan are small.

Step 3 is when you realize hundreds of dollars a month on books qualifies you as an idiot.

Buy the books they ask for on amazon.

I mean, for fucks sake, you already have to resort to asking US for book reccomendations because you are clearly an idiot already

Am i supposed to honestly believe someone as stupid as you has a kob that pays well enough for you to waste hundreds a month on books?

You dont even have a reasonable grasp over your own hobby

Listen to me.

Starting in junior high, the kids have two hours of free time.

I don't have any choice in that. Do you understand that? Do you appreciate that? It isn't up to me. That's just how things are here. Humans need to sleep. Kids here have to do clubs. Kids here have to study. That isn't up to me. I can't change that. Nor do I want to.

That leaves two hours. Do you follow so far? Two hours. That's two more hours than most kids here get. Most go to cram school, which I won't send my kids to.

Two hours. Understand? Two hours.

They're not spending those two hours staring at a screen. Most kids would. Most kids do. I believe that there are more valuable things they could do, but I won't rule it out completely.

How about half?

They can spend an hour staring at a screen if they want, but then they're going to spend an hour doing something that isn't starting at a screen, whatever they want to do.

I'm not forcing them to read. I'm just making sure they have that option available to them for that hour or two. They can do whatever they want in that second hour except stare at a screen. They can go play outside. They can go to the store. They can do a hobby. They have two hours, and I want to make sure they don't lose both of them to the TV. One is enough to get any benefit the TV has to offer.

don't be an asian parent, please

i was raised this way -- try to make your parenting the european or american academic way

Take televisions and cell phones out of the house then. Dont fill your home with an air of desperation over losing control and fear. This directly fucks your relationship with then and poisons their perception of you, though, given the rest of your ego, this seems inevitable.

Read a basic parenting book. Its sad the other 4chunz neets have a better grasp over this than you do.

>That doesn't mean hours of video games.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHY I'M LIMITING GAMES TO ONE HOUR

What the FUCK are you blathering about? How is limiting video games to an hour a day turning reading into a chore? They don't have to read at all if they don't feel like it. There are things to do besides reading.

Did I ask you for any recommendations you moronic piece of shit?

I already explained that I OWN A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY WITH A ROOM BIG ENOUGH FOR A LIBRARY. Retard.

I only asked you the difference between Leatherbound Classics and Collectible Editions. A question which none of you fucking idiots has bothered to answer.

We don't have a TV.

Some Children's Books:
Anything by Jon Sciezsca
Anything by Leo Leonni
Anything by David Wiesner
Dr. Desoto (this is very possibly the best children's book ever written); Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; Yellow & Pink - by William Steig
The Dot - Randi Zuckerberg
Let's Do Nothing - Tony Fucile

I could list more, but these are the best to encourage inquisitive reading. They're also lots of fun. Some that are just fun: Piggy Pie, The Monster at the End of this Book, Purple Green and Yellow)

Children's books are expensive and look ugly on a shelf. Plus your kid will ruin them. Not sure what to recommend for that - will take suggestions

Seeing as how we don't live in the West but in Japan they're not going to be getting out of school at 3pm with half an hour of homework freeing them to play video games until bedtime unless I write a very persuasive letter to Abe and convince him to reform the education system. Looks like we'll just have to adapt.

If you post evidence of your terrible parenting along with a boring literature question you better believe people are going to call you out on your awful parenting skills.

There doesn't seem to be a difference, as far as I can tell. Different books are available in each range, but there won't be a difference in content of the same books (some books show up in both ranges).

If you didn't want commentary on your parenting choices, then you shouldn't have hidden your question in the middle of a long description of your plans. If you want the validation you obviously crave, and I say this totally unironically, go post this on r/books.

Two hours a night.

Movies (good movies that is) are not retarded like a TV show would be. Once a week let them watch a kids film, if they like. A good kids film. Miyazaki films are perfect and should be easy to get hold of over there. Early Pixar. Early Disney (seriously Fantasia is fucking patrician). Kids films are about 90 minutes.

Half an hour night time reading is fine, especially since this is only once a week. We're not asking you to let them watch movies every day, and not one person has said ordinary TV has any benefit.

Make an event of it. Wednesday movie night or whatever. Something to look forward to. If they want more movie nights tell them it will make it less special.

It's just a bit of variety, and you make it into a bonding experience, much like you should be doing with the reading.

Every kid hates school. They are going to come home pissed of and exhausted.

Choke to death on shit in Hell.

Limiting the amount of time your children spend watching TV is not evidence of bad parenting skills and if you think it is it's a good thing you don't have nor ever will have children.

Have you read the thread? I've already said that movies are for the weekend.

Yeah.

I'm suggesting one mid week as well isn't such a bad idea.

no. it is the rest of what you are doing such a micromanaging their time by the minute and the fact yoy mentioned it in the SAME BREATH as your ego project that is setting off alarm bells. also the fact you havent even reaponded to the most prescient criticisms

you are not remotely normal. your kids will hate you. it pains you that you are abnormal. fine. dont force your kids to confront it. you will end up hating your own kids and they will hate you.

this whole situation is sad. utterly, and the only reason we are in it is because we feel sorry for your kids.

you could, of course, SPEND TIME with your kids and teach them. but you have already acknowledged that you have nothing to teach via your method of parenting, which is showing us you are already afraid of being rejected by them.... because you know nothing

why dont you repost this in another forum and see how they react

>If you didn't want commentary on your parenting choices, then you shouldn't have hidden your question in the middle of a long description of your plans.

Only one sentence in my OP had to do with limiting screen time which is what you autists seized on and turned this entire thread into a discussion of with your ill informed hysterical screeching while avoiding the rest of the content entirely.

>If you want the validation you obviously crave, and I say this totally unironically, go post this on r/books.

I'm guessing redit would be even more furious at the prospect of a child somewhere not watching eight hours of Netflix a night. Go back.

If you appropriately invested 200 a month into a retirement plan you could completely fund the retirement of one of your children by the time they turn 18, or half and half

You have never worked a day in your life have you. Ive never hear of someone with such awful money skills that wasnt stuck on welfare.

You're an insufferable faggot.

Yes because I'll have to keep investing 200 a month in the library for the rest of my life.

Not just until I have a good collection. No, for the rest of my life until I retire, every single month.

Fuck, how did you get so stupid?

very few of us mentioned lImiting screentime because you have done this adequately.

the other aspects of your plan are ill informed. this is what we criticize. your angry reaction validates our criticism that this is about your ego and not the children. your lack of ability to read our posts and actually digure out their content demonstrates your low intelligence

dumb people can raise kids well too, but not if they act like you

Kill yourself.

But this just isn't true. The Asian education system seems to produce students who are good at math and reading, but not ones who are truly great. I go to a pretty decent state university with an top math program and tons of foreign Asian students. There perspective and understanding of the subject matter seems entirely different from western students. Most of them going into STEM programs already know multivariable calculus ("calculus III") and basic linear algebra, whereas there America counterparts (even the ones going into the math program) generally know at best calculus I or II. Nevertheless, American students seem to perform just as well, and when it comes to higher level maths and actually engaging the material in a manner appropriate or a young researcher, the Americans do better. Asian students seem to view math as a practical tool and a means to an end - strictly a computational process of following rules and algorithms to determine an answer. They seem to lack the originality and creativity of thinking required to see a subject in a new light a find an answer to an unsolved problem. Similarly, I think they view math primarily as a vector into the field of making the fancy gadjets and gizmos the ching chongs love so much, whereas in the west we a long tradition of romanticizing the simultaneous creative and analytic genius exhibited by a select few individuals who pursued pure maths for it's own sake.

do you have anything of aubstance to add?

you have deliberately overlooked the most salient criticisms of almost every poster here.

talk about them or let this thread die.

I was raised in a house with a large book collection, but rather than mandatory reading, I was simply encouraged to read any book that interested me. My parents read to me when I was young, but they rarely forced any book upon me until I was a teenager, and it had to do with my schooling. We also watched a movie every night. Try to start your kids off with a lot of black and white films or they may become turned off by them.

You're worthless.

hey cunt, why don't you introduce it to one of the greater arts like maths or physics ? or lifting ?

because you can't ? of course you can't, 70-iq try-hard monkey who can't bench 100 lbs, Veeky Forums is for brainlets, as a physicist im pretty sure I dominate you intellectually

the only books you should buy them are redpilled ones

I used to spend 10 hrs a day on video games
fortunately, this didn't prevent me from being taller better stronger and more intelligent than you or your kids

jewish trash

t. the ubermensch

You know what I've decided?

This mandatory reading thing you guys have come up with is a terrific idea.

I WILL force my kids to read. They won't be allowed outside or do whatever else they want during their free time. No. I'm going to lock them in the library for two hours a day and they'll have to finish a certain number of pages from a book of my choosing.

NO TV AT ALL.

Thanks for the advice, guys.

OP embodies the stereotype of Asian Women: Now Even Betas Can Feel Like A Real Man™. Can you imagine a normal, well-adjusted guy who doesn't need to prove anything to anybody else thinking up all of these arbitrary rules that the whole family must obey?

OP put your wife and and make her force you to abandon the thread for no less than 1 hour. I am japanese and i take issue with your entire attitude about this

>being in charge of your family is beta

wow thanks for responding to the story of my real and satisfactory upbringing by having a 2 year old temper tantrum and saying you want to torture your kids.

Really drives the point home that you know more about parenting than me.

The fact you can't understand why your paranoid micromanagement is different to merely "being in charge" speaks volumes.

>throwing an autistic tantrum because of strangers on a chinese cartoon imageboard

OP is one of the biggest losers I've ever had the pleasure of laughing at on this board. No surprise that he had to leave Western culture behind to find someone who'd breed with his abrasive personality.

I spent thousands of hours playing video games as a kid and never read anything, including whatever was 'required' for class. ended getting being well-read in philosophy and theology while studying stem at a one of the world's best universities, lift, have qt gf, masterful cook, job lined up in the City
lol let your kids do whatever. it'll be much harder to figure out whether your 'encouragements' will have the intended or opposite effect

You're unstable fella. Praying that your kids somehow grow up normal and well-adjusted in spite of your awful parenting.

>mandatory reading
Limiting screentime to an hour a day isn't synonymous with chaining a child to a desk with a book 24/7. Dozens of posts in this thread including yours have accused me of doing that. "Mandatory reading." What is the source of this autism?

I'm somewhat worried that OP will vent his frustration on his kids, either by beating them or by locking them in his basement for a few weeks

Limiting electronics to an hour a day is not "paranoid micromanagement" you fucking idiot.

Sarcasm is not a tantrum, retard.

my video game time was limited to an hour a day desu, that's not the issue here. The issue is that you're locking your kids into a very rigidly structured schedule for young kids to have.

Stay mad incel.

Get thee behind me.

You're too retarded to grasp irony. Ok.

The viciousness of your attacks against us, the fact you are even angry ket alone the extent of your anger, and your inability to respond to our actual criticisms is what the issue is here.

If you think this dorsnt impact your parenting you are wrong.

I have a friend whose parents were similiar to OP. He's a very smart guy, but he's also a huge autist and has never touched a girl at 21

This. My older brother's "play time" with dad used to consists of chess theory.

I say again.

Humans need to sleep.

The kids get home at 6pm.

They need to study for 2 hours to keep up with the education system.

How the FUCK would you change their schedule you knowitall fuckwit? Wave a magic wand and add more hours to the clock?

Spell out exactly what the schedule should be or stop whining.