Archive for 2014
What motivates parents to read to their children?
February 7, 2014
Reading brings so many pleasures and benefits but I believe the overriding reason why parents read to their children is that it simply makes them feel good. The intimacy of these shared moments are part of what makes parenting so meaningful and satisfying. Lucky are the adults who can tap into the memory of being […]
Peyton Manning, a very good story
February 3, 2014
A recent article in SF Gate, http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Our-economic-future-depends-on-early-investments-5194170.php highlighted the importance of parents talking to their children so when they enter school they are ready to be successful learners. Talking develops a child’s use and understanding of language, which is the basis of reading. What makes vocabulary valuable and important is not the words themselves so much […]
Children begin to dream their dreams and grow their hopes and aspirations inside the books they read.
February 2, 2014
The books children read have a lasting influence and help shape and change them to become the person they are capable of becoming. A story shows a child who they are at a moment in time and who they might become. Reading is how children better know themselves. “There is no intellectual equivalent to allowing […]
“At a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”
January 24, 2014
Children come into the world breathing out questions, full of curiosity and stories build on their curiosity, grow their imaginations and expand their capacity to think creatively. It stands to reason that Eleanor Roosevelt said, “At a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, […]
A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping—Make 2014 the year you read or reread Zora Neale Hustron
January 7, 2014
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) , a writer closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, made such a statement during her lifetime but she was buried in an unmarked grave in a pauper’s field, where she lay in obscurity until another young writer, Alice Walker, decided to take it upon herself to bring Hurston’s body of work […]
