Reading for Love

Posted on September 27, 2005

Reading with your children is a great way to spend time together. It is a great way to share yourself with your children. Even very young children love to be read too and enjoy looking at pictures. This can lead to instilling a love of books and of reading in your children, but I think even more importantly, it can lead to the sharing of very private, fun, loving, snuggly moments that are some of my most precious memories with my kids. I can even remember the special moments I spent sitting on my mother's lap in her rocking chair as she read to me. Although she has been gone for many years, I can feel her, and smell her and hear her voice as I remember those times. It feels safe and puts a smile in my heart.

Reading to your children also provides an opportunity to connect the books you are reading to the concepts of Belonging, Sharing, Respect and Trust in a very natural and interesting way. It provides us with a window into how our children think and feel about how the world works and how they would approach and deal with the challenges presented in the books.