From the author: A hot topic for parents nowadays is the topic of reading. Nowadays it is much easier for a child to spend three hours watching a movie than to read a book. But reading develops thinking, logic, imagination, important human qualities, creativity, it gives an idea of ​​the world, about people, about feelings. It gives you the opportunity to become a director yourself, to experience feelings, emotions, and situations much more deeply than when watching a film. This is how Marina Tsvetaeva describes her first reading at the age of eight of “Eugene Onegin” by A.S. Pushkin. “- My first love scene was not love: he didn’t love (I understood this), that’s why he didn’t sit down, she loved, that’s why she stood up, they weren’t together for a minute, didn’t do anything together, did the exact opposite: he said, she she was silent, he didn’t love, she loved, he left, she stayed, so if you lift the curtain, she’s standing alone, or maybe sitting again, because she stood only because he stood, and then collapsed and will sit like that forever . Tatyana sits on that bench forever. This first love scene of mine predetermined all my subsequent ones, all the passion in me for unhappy, non-reciprocal, impossible love. From that very moment I didn’t want to be happy and by doing so I doomed myself to dislike. The whole point was that he didn’t love her, and only because she loved him, and only because she chose him and not the other to love, was that she secretly knew that he couldn’t love her. (I’m saying this now, but I knew it then, I knew it then, but now I’ve learned to speak). People with this fatal gift of unhappy - the only - taken upon themselves - love have a real genius for inappropriate objects." Literature that touches a child predetermines his most important actions in life. What should a child read in childhood? How much control should a parent have over his reading process? Perhaps the most accurate answer to this question will be given by Marina Tsvetaeva in her short essay “My Pushkin”. She began reading Eugene Onegin at the age of eight, when everyone thought that she was incapable of understanding adult literature. From her example we know that literature has no age. Yes, she did not understand this work as it is usually understood at school. But classics, in addition to content, have a poetic language that shapes taste. Moreover, the work itself leads to the construction of images. A child should not ask questions about what he understood in the work - he will tell what the adult wants, and this will destroy the poetic world created by his imagination. It is better to ask what the child felt and why he liked the work? Now my eldest son nine years. During the summer holidays, when he was eight, he additionally read various literature: stories, fairy tales, novels, etc. With great pleasure he read “The Little Mermaid” by G.H. Andersen. And he said that this is the most interesting book he has read in all this time, because it is about love. If your child does not like to read and this is a problem, try offering him a book about love. You need to offer books for reading of different genres, and when your child says that this book is very interesting, then there will be no problems with reading. Just invite him to read books of this genre. For example, I really loved reading adventures and science fiction as a child. Sincerely, psychologist Irina Revutskaya.