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Can you encourage reading?

Encouraging children to read for pleasure is something that is easier said than done. Living in a world where there is a plethora of other leisure activities for one to chose from, you might ask: ‘How can I really accomplish what seems to be a mammoth task?’

Don’t limit how, what (within reason of course, as a parent you have to use discernment) or where they read; all kinds of reading count! Graphic novels, magazine articles, websites, and eBooks on mobile devices, they should read what they enjoy. Explore ways to have fun with reading. For example: creating books, poems, songs, puppet shows, and computer art and stories, even acting out their favourite stories. Let your child’s interests and enthusiasm inspire and guide new activities!

Set aside a time for Family Reading. Turn off the TV. Have everyone in the family choose something to read (newspaper, book, magazine etc). Showing your kids that everyone reads for enjoyment is important to helping them build a love for reading.

Have an Adventurous day!
Carmela Dutra ~ Author of the Lorenzo the Bear series.

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Published on May 06, 2014 12:39 • Tags: adventure, author, bear, bedtime, books, carmela, children, develop, dutra, educational, impression, internet, kids, lorenzo, magazines, memories, poems, reading, stories, story, technology, the

Childhood Memories

I spent this past weekend cleaning up around the house, organizing boxes. All of this was in an effort to find something specific, which alas it was nowhere to be found. What I did find was some old photo albums. Won’t you agree with me when I say there is this feeling of nostalgia when you flip through old photo albums?

Looking through those photos brought back memories. Seeing pictures of my old cat Tom (who lived to be 20yrs old) my sister, our old bedroom that we shared. Those memories got me thinking about what some of my favorite were. There wasn’t anything I would trade for my summers playing in the backyard with my father’s tools. Or going to park for game of Frisbee. But what were some of my favorite memories??

Then I was reminded when I saw some of my old books. Some of the best memories from my childhood are when my father and I would read. It wasn’t even always reading the same book together; often times he would pick me up a comic book and get a classic car magazine for himself. We would go out back, sit in one of his cars (my father was an auto body repair’s man, specializing in classic cars) and read. Even though we didn’t always read a book “together” we still read together.

It was something that didn’t cost anything, and something that has stayed with me all these years. I will often remind my father of some of those memories; he’s always somewhat surprised at how that made an impact on me. You can never underestimate the power a book (or in my case comic books) holds, the affects it will have or the memories it will create.

Now that the new week us upon us what will we do? We take time to schedule activities, make arrangements, but why not take some of that time and schedule reading? It won’t cost anything rather, it will create memories that money can’t buy!