u/MakeWiseChoices4037

My little sister is 10 years old and I know for a fact that she doesn’t read very often. She told me today that she ought to be reading more often now that school is starting again, but I have my doubts about the depths the teachers in that particular school will have the class analyse the books with. I’ve gotten her to agree to read a book with me, and we could talk about it and whatnot, but I’m not sure what book to pick. I don’t know her current reading level or where a 10 year old should be, and I don’t know what her exact interests are, all I know is that she’s rarely on less than 2 electronic devices at any given moment, and I want to do something about that and help grow her critical thinking skills. Any advice would be appreciated, from what type of books to introduce her to, what talking points I should make to make sure she’s actually engaging and learning something from the book, how to pace it, literally anything would be appreciated. I’m not a teacher, shoot I’m in high school myself, but my peers are less than capable to put it nicely, and it kills me that she just plain and simple doesn’t read, so any suggestions are welcome ❤️

I’m nearly 16 years old, and I only feel vaguely prepared for the world I’m going to be entering. I’m alright academically and doing fine socially, but there’s so many things I don’t know how to do that I feel like I should know. I don’t know how to take notes for instance, for school or during lectures or even just notes about books or movies that I like, nobody’s ever taught me how to take real actual notes. my ability to solve problems is limited to basic knowledge of random things and whatever google ai overview will tell me, and I don’t have anybody to teach me any other ways. I’m almost sure there are other ways to learn things and solve problems, but I’m clueless about how to learn them since nobody will teach me. I haven’t got anybody to teach me about interviews or what courses to take in school to benefit me, or anything of the sort. I don’t want to blame the people in my life for not teaching me these things, but every time I mention this specific grievance, I’m told by someone or other that some things are up to me to learn by myself, but that’s just it that nobody ever taught me how to learn things myself. I really do try my best to figure things out, but I don’t know things that I feel like I should know how to do. I can’t form any interests in things on my own, the only tv, movies, comics, books, manga, music, or video games I partake in have been recommended by friends. I don’t know how to decide what to do in life, because I feel like I’d really be fine with just about anything and be able to do a multitude of things, but people dislike it when I ask what to do and say I should do what I want and work towards my own goals, but nobody ever taught me how to think about what I want or what I feel. On a more skill based note, I can’t write a paper, I can’t cook or clean, I can’t work a computer all that well, I can’t do much with machinery. All I do is lay in my bed and think about various things for hours on end, and I don’t know how to change that because I don’t know where to start when it comes to learning something. I’ve got a theory that the teachers at school aren’t helping, because I’ve been reprimanded in math for doing things differently, I’ve been reprimanded in English for formatting a paragraph differently (the format was an introductory sentence, a quote, two sentences of commentary on the quote, another quote, and then two sentences of commentary on the second quote, and you’d have marks taken off if you added or subtracted any sentences, or gave the sentences different purposes. That’s been the format for the last 7 years, and it’s the only way I know to write a paragraph in any context), I’ve been reprimanded in history for asking a question that still related to the topic, but also touched on something from the next unit that he hadn’t taught yet. Am I legit going crazy? Sorry that this is all over the place, but I actually feel insane sometimes because it seems fundamentally wrong to me that I’m like 2 years from being a full real actual adult and I literally do not know how to learn something. Is there anything y’all think I should priorities trying to figure out first, or just any advice in general regarding being a functional person?

I literally just made this account like 5 minutes ago and made a post, and it almost immediately got an automated comment from the moderator or bot or whatever with the whole “welcome to the subreddit, don’t break the rules, be kind” spiel, which is fine, and it has 1 upvote, which I’m not sure if that’s part of the moderator comment or not, and within like two minutes it’s saying that the post is locked so it cannot be commented on and that the post has been taken down? I went back to the actual subreddit, where I’d seen some guy’s post and then mine earlier, but this time I saw that same guy’s post, then the post some whoever posted like two seconds ago with mine nowhere to be seen. I didn’t use any curse words, didn’t say anything offensive, all good things I’m pretty sure. Am I going crazy?