Difficulties in a Bilingual Family

I wanted to interview my father, who is someone who has always put a huge emphasis and value in reading and writing, however I was called in to cater breakfast lunch and dinner for the PG&E workers who came to the area to fix downed power lines during the storm, and had to work non stop the past weekend.  Well anyway, the interview I ended up getting was interesting in a different way.  I interviewed my GF Rebecca Moisoff, who grew up in a house that did not emphasize or assert the value of reading and writing.  Her Mother worked all day during the week, and her Father worked graveyard shifts during the week, which gave them opposing schedules, and it was difficult for them to teach her the value of reading.  Her mother is also an immigrant from Nicaragua, so she is not a native English speaker.  When I asked how she thinks her parents affected her reading habits, she said “I think it definitely affected me negatively and hindered me in the long run and then once I got older and once they realized that I wasn’t the best student that I could be when they did try and enforce it a think I was it was a little too late. It was really hard to get me to get my homework done and I feel like if that would have been instilled early on then it would’ve just become like habit and I would’ve it would’ve been easier for me to have done it.”  It is interesting to see how it was to grow up in a house where reading isn’t a high priority, as I grew up around voracious readers.