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Meghan Cox Gurdon
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October 2018
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“The act of reading together secures people to one another, creating order and connection, as if we were quilt squares tacked together with threads made of stories. That's not just another metaphor, as a team of neuroscientists at Princeton has discovered. Even as reader and listener are enjoying their bouquet of neurochemicals ... their brain activity is synchronizing, creating literal order and connection in a process known as neural coupling.”
― The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
― The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
“Reading every day with children can't guarantee perfect outcomes for any family—not in grades, not in happiness, not in relationships. But it is as close to a miracle product as we can buy, and it doesn't cost a nickel. As a flawed, fallible person with an imperfect temper, I know that reading every night is not just the nicest thing I've done with my children but represents, without question, the best I have been able to give them as their mother.”
― The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
― The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
“What we look at determines what we see, and what we see, really see, becomes part of an inner museum of pictures and references, a mental collection that for most of us is not so much curated as acquired in a haphazard way. There is an opportunity with children to show them art and illustration that will furnish their minds with beauty and mystery, symmetry and wonder. The simplest mechanism for this is the selection of picture books that we share with them.”
― The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
― The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
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