Reading to your children will
enhance your child's life. I remember my mother giving
me the life time gift of reading.
Reading to Your Children
A
Mother's Gift
I
remember my mother reading to me when I was a small child.
I watched as she showed me words she read. "Can you say
that?" she asked. She made reading an adventure.
"A is for
Apple," Mom said many times. I listened intently then pointed
at the letter and repeated the rhyme. Time and again Mom
listened to me as I sounded out letters and simple words. By
the time I reached kindergarten I could read simple
sentences.
A year or
so later I read Dick and Jane stories to Mom as my reading
skills increased. I remember running home and telling her I
was in the Red Birds, the highest reading group in my second
grade class.
During my
high school years I challenged my mother to word definition
contests. We read the words presented in a magazine and wrote
a definition for each word. We checked our answers and
compared our scores. My freshman, sophomore, and junior years
Mom won most of the challenges. My senior year I reversed the
trend. "It's about time," she said.
When I
left for college Mom told me, "Keep reading. A man who
can read can do about anything he wants."
I
remember Mom giving me a lifetime love of reading. Whenever I
read a good book I appreciate this gift given to me by my
mother. Incredibly, she did the same for each of my eleven
brothers and sisters. In a day when parents are inundated with
distractions there is no greater investment in time than
reading to your children.
Copyright
2009 J-me
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