When you find yourself worrying that your child hasn’t read a certain book or a certain author, don’t despair. Don’t try to cram it into the schedule. Think to yourself (with delight), What a joy it will be to stumble across that author or that book or that series down the road. Fill your child’s life with good books, but don’t worry about getting to them all. Resist the temptation to assign piles and piles of reading out of fear that your child will miss something important.
