Reading Aloud
Reading aloud is one of the primary disciplines that I hope to hand down to our children. My best memories from childhood are playing with friends and my parents reading aloud to us. Already some of my best times with my children have been reading aloud. I love children, I love language and noticing how children grow in language and getting excited over their leaps and developments. I love being there when linguistic or literary connections come together in their mind. It is truly one of the most magical things to witness! This love for reading aloud has been a catalyst for so much growth and goodness in our small family, but really it escapes me to try to articulate the best part of what is going on when an adult reads to a small child. It is like a three stranded cord: the author, the reader, the child; mind to mind to mind. It is like magic. It is like participating in something wonderful that cannot be experienced in any other way. It is like swimming in a lazy ocean on a hot ...