Parent Tip – Reading at Dinnertime
By Kristen Harper · April 30, 2014
Reading at Dinnertime
A message adapted from the Wall Street Journal 1980
Tonight
At the dinner table
Read something
Out loud
To your family,
Tomorrow night
Let another member
Read something:
A news story,
A Bible verse,
A poem,
A cereal box panel,
History, Humor,
Anything.
Each night
A different family member
Can read
A selection.
Imagine the wide range
Of subjects
Your family will read
In 365 days.
A stimulating way
To have your children
Develop good reading habits.
There are millions
Of illiterate adults
In America.
We wouldn’t have one,
If each of them
Had been served reading
As part of their nightly diet.
It’s non-fattening
But enriching.
And doesn’t cost a dime.