Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Amen, Nathan - in this day of non-readers, all three of my kids, now 30-27-23 suck down books, and all were read to nightly for years. In fact, for about the past five years I have given each of the kids a good illustrated children's book as a Christmas present, picking books that I think they will find artistically intriguing as adults, with the idea that they will use them as the start of collections for the children they will -hopefully - someday have themselves. On 11/17/05 3:44 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > On 11/15/05 9:32 PM, "Nathan Wajsman" <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> typed: > >> Funny, we followed exactly the same strategy with our children as what >> Daniel describes. Always reading to them at night, even when they were >> infants. I remember once I had my then 1-year old son with me on a visit >> to Denmark and had forgotten to bring baby books. It didn't matter--I >> just read him the just-published memoirs of a former Danish prime >> minister. This went on until well after he could read by himself. >> >> Now they are 16 and 11, and both read A LOT. Especially my 11-year old >> daughter is always ready to go and raid the local Waterstone's. >> >> I may have made some mistakes in parenting, I am sure I have, but this >> is one thing I have done right. >> >> Nathan >> >> Daniel Ridings wrote: > > My dad read us a dozen Oz books during desert for dinner. > They are as good or better than the first one. > With Ozma, the Wogglebug, Tic Tock, Rinkitink and a cast of thousands. > They sell at Powells rare book store now for between 1 and 5 hundred bucks. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information