My son and books

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I don't typically buy my son stuff just to buy him stuff and when I do it's something small that doesn't cost much more than five dollars. I usually buy him stuff for Christmas and his birthday and Easter because I use Easter as a way to get him summer toys and clothes. I sometimes reward good behavior with something special or I'll let him earn something he wants by helping out to earn money to get something he wants. Once in a while I do like to surprise him with something like a pack of Pokemon cards but it's usually out of the blue. There's one exception to this I will sometimes splurge on books. I think reading is important especially during the summer when kids tend to be glued to video games. If I see a book I think my son will love or a new book to a series he reads I'll sometimes pick it up just because. It always makes a nice surprise. My son's favorite series is Dogman. It's a graphic novel (comic) by the same author that writes Captain Underpants which is another series my son loves but he always picks Dogman first. My sister originally got him the first Dogman book and from there he couldn't put it down. I absolutely love hearing him giggle as he reads. I love that he allows his imagination to take over as he reads. Reading is a favorite past time for me. As a kid, I always had a book in my hands and I would sometimes read two or three decent sized chapter books in a week because I'd spend hours reading. It something I want to share with my son. He loves all things science so I've also bought him science related books. His teacher told me that in class she had a hard time getting him to stop reading to focus on something else. My son is a strong reader. I thought he had issues when he was first learning because his scores were low so I took him to a reading tutor and they told me that he was actually a really good reader but would have a difficult time focussing sometimes. We found out later that it was because he has sensory processing disorder so loud sounds or talking really bother him. He's gotten better and we bought him headphones that help and now he puts those on when he reads but once he's really into it he can zone out without headphones. My son now scores fairly high in both reading and vocabulary. He scored in about the 90th percentile for vocabulary and he sometimes sounds like a little old man with some of the words he uses. He is always looking up new words and using them in a sentence and trying out the sound of them. My son does well academically. Math is not his area but he isn't terrible but he excelles in reading. He has issues with writing due to fine motor issues and sometimes writes certain letters and numbers backwards but I read that can be due to sensory processing disorder but I'm not sure how. I have always felt reading is important and I even used to read to my son in the womb and I read to him as a tiny baby and I kept reading to him and sometimes I still read to him. We take turns reading bigger chapter books. I listen to him and help him with words he doesn't know and it makes him a stronger reader because when you read something you don't always know if you're pronouncing it correctly and this helps him learn how to say certain words. Watching my son laugh and enjoy reading a book is an amazing gift. I wanted to share my love of reading with him and it seems to have paid off.