I have heard a very good answer to the question "why do you want to read":

If a person does not read books, then his values are determined by the people around him. Because he has no other way to input, he can only imitate the people around him, or slowly be changed by the environment. Follow whatever is popular around you, and you will never find yourself. As Goethe said, to read a good book is to talk to many noble people. Material poverty can destroy the dignity of your life, and spiritual poverty can consume your reincarnation for several lifetimes. There is no road in vain in life, and there is no book to read in vain, the book you have read, even if you don't remember the content, but it still remains in the words and deeds, in the temperament, in the elegance of the mind and the vastness of the spirit (this paragraph is quoted from the Internet)

It is like a ladder to comfort, a healing medicine, a prescription for enlightening wisdom, and a way to awaken the mind.

These are the truths that people who don't like to read can't understand in their lifetime. These are feelings that people who have never read can never experience.

Therefore, instead of telling your child dry truths, it is better to take your child to read more.

Through reading, children can summarize a lot of truths on their own.

Taking work as an example, children who do not have a lot of reading experience will have a view of work based on what they have learned in textbooks: "There is no distinction between high and low jobs", while those who have read books and have life experience know early on that there is a strict hierarchy of jobs.

They know that people who have studied and read well will be arranged to work in a relatively clean and comfortable place with better benefits, which is relatively leisurely, and they will have a generous pension in their later years, as well as medical security.

They also know that those who have not studied and have no life specialties can only rely on their strength to eat their youth in many cases. Most of the time, they do jobs that are harder and have no guaranteed salary.

Of course, they also know that there are no absolutes in the world, and there are exceptions.

For example, it shows that Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, he was born poor, herded cattle for the landlord in his early years, and had no formal study opportunities, if nothing else, he was a cattle herding baby all his life.

But in that troubled era, many factors forced him to go from a small person to a big person.

Among many factors, reading became one of the important reasons why he changed his fate.

This poor child, who could only live by herding cattle, entered the Huangjue Temple at the age of 17, and began to read and write by copying Buddhist scriptures and traveling to see and hear the words.

The books he has read have enhanced his knowledge, vision and the angle, depth and breadth of looking at problems, and under the strategic leadership of his strategy of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king", Zhu Chongba (Zhu Yuanzhang's original name), who is talented and lucky, successfully survived every difficulty, and finally became the king and emperor.

He said that the emperor did not give up studying, but studied more diligently, and asked Wenchen to explain the scriptures and history for him, especially attaching importance to practical knowledge. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote works such as "Emperor Ming Ancestral Training" and "Imperial Edict".

The above two stories tell you that reading is a weapon that most people use to become powerful. Of course, reading books does not just mean learning the content in textbooks and trying to get good grades, but also refers to continuous reading of a wide range of books.

Of course, we have to read books, but we can't just read books, but after reading a lot of books, we can add the content of the book to deep thinking and use it for social practice, so that we can transform theory into ability, and at this time, we may turn the tables against the wind when we encounter the right opportunity.

So, if children don't know the benefits of reading, let them read the book first and then look for the answers in the book.