My dad thinks everyone has to be a straight-A student, so I have to go to bed a half-hour early every night and read. Which isn't so bad, cuz I don't have to actuallly turn out my light until ten.

See, I push myself so hard anyway, my parents don't see the need to do it themselves. Reading to me is more of a watching TV to others; if I finish my homework and my piano and violin practicing, I can do it.  Which brings me back to my original question.  Thanks for replying! 

~Leaf 

Yeah i've had the same trouble. This January i told myself i would read a book a week. When you set yourself i goal it's amazing were you can fit in time for reading. If a book a week is to much try a book every two. Make it reasonable, but not to easy. I'm not one for goals. (really they annoy me) but this one is rather fun.

I recommend what Mary Liz says about bringing the book to school.  That's where I get most of my reading done, because I squeeze it in whenever I can - when I'm done with an assignment, for instance, or if my teacher is going over a quiz on which I got a 100 and don't need to pay attention.  I also read while eating breakfast, brushing my hair, etc.  If you really want to read, you'll find time for it!

I usually read at night when I'm in my bed, sometimes in the car, and sometimes I'm naughty and read when I'm supposed to be getting ready for the day.

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I've been having much of the same problem. I ought to be reading a book per day, but I often can't anymore, which bothers me. I still manage to do it most of the time, though. Also, I hate PE, and now that I'm in middle school they let me take both Choir and Theatre Arts (rather than just one of them) instead of PE, as long as I swim for 5 hours per week (the amount of time I'd spend in PE). On top of that, I also post here (obviously). I used to stay up in bed reading with a flashlight, but my mom could always tell when I'd been doing so, and I had to stop. So, finding time to read is hard. Here's what I do.

Whenever I'm doing something that doesn't involve a lot of thinking (or work involving both hands busy), I read as I do it. Eating, brushing hair, going to the bathroom, walking slowly... You get the point. It works. Then again, you're probably much busier than me. But still.

And yes, I always take my book to school. If I didn't, I'd probably have died from lack of reading time by now...

Thanks guys!  I find my time spent reading going up, now.  And Ima, I don't actually think I that busy.  I mean, I have to practice piano and violin and do homework, but it's not like I have sports practice a lot.  See, I only have music and school in my life, and that's it.  I also have this habit of getting distracted and procrastinating (*coughCBcough*).  So it really is my fault.  I recently got a library card and I go to the library more often.  I'm feeling a lot more positive.  And I do this thing for piano where I advance through levels and in February/March, I get evaluated.  I have a theory test and a performance in front of an adjudicator.  I just took my theory test yesterday, so I have a lot of time open that I had filled with taking practice tests.  Now I just have to practice really hard.  And my orchestra concert is today, so I don't have to worry too much about that since we don't get new music until two weeks from now.  Life is good.  Thanks, again!

~Leaf