“No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.” “A house without books is like a room without windows,” Horace Mann once said. If you want your child to be a reader, your house and your life must be filled with books. Do you really have to read about why dragons love tacos again? Or what Frodo is going to do with that stupid ring? And read it with the excited tone of a voice-over actor? Best of all, most of this content is free!īooks on the other hand are not free and they take up so much space. It can take them into a world of learning and exploration that is literally miraculous. Look, we get it: the iPad is a magical device. In the words of Margaret Fuller “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Have Books At Home To that end, we’ve put together a few tips that will help you make reading a part of your child’s life now and hopefully for the rest of their lives. Because of this, it can feel difficult to help your children want to make reading their go-to. We struggle more to get our kids to do it. Most of us intuitively know this but still, we struggle to find or make the time for it ourselves. The American cosmologist Carl Sagan once said that “one of the greatest gifts adults can give-to their offspring and to their society-is to read to children.” Indeed, reading is perhaps the greatest shortcut to self-improvement.
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