For the Love of Reading...

A new and exciting job awaits me next week.  Beginning Monday Oct. 12th I'll be an Even Start Director.  Even Start is a family literacy program.  We help people to get their G.E.D.'s, basic adult education, and spend time reading alone and to their kids.  So, today, I want to encourage everybody to read more.  Read your children to sleep at least 5 nights per week.  15 - 30 minutes of reading each day will greatly increase the number of neurons that your child's brain grows, give them problem solving and social skills and teach them that books are fun and important.  Take a moment to think about all of the books, manuals, etc. that people use everyday, everywhere.  Cookbooks, textbooks, instruction manuals, pamphlets, and flyers.  Every movie, T.V. show, or play is first written.  Writing is as critical as speaking.  Imagine a world with no words, then be thankful that you can read this.  Some people can't.  You can read to children from womb to whenever they get tired of it!  They can read to you at some point.  What books would you like to share with your children?