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The Most Important Twenty Minutes Of Your Day
ALL OF US love our children more than anything in the world. In their first years
we feed them so they grow. We bring them to the doctor so they are healthy. We
strap them in car seats so they are safe.
But the most important thing in the first years of life is the growth of the mind and
spirit. This is when a child learns to love and trust, to speak and listen.
After a child turns two years old, these things are very difficult to learn or teach
ever again. Trusting, singing, laughing, and language are the most important
things in a young child’s life.
And so they must come first for mothers and fathers, too. Because we can never
have those years over again.
Every day, make a quiet, restful place for twenty minutes. Put your child in your
lap and read a book aloud. In the pages of the book you will find a tiny vacation
of privacy and intense love. It costs nothing but twenty minutes and a library
card.
Reading to your little one is just like putting gold coins in the bank. It will pay you
back tenfold. Your daughter will learn, and imagine, and be strong in herself.
Your son will thrive, and give your love back forever.
– R.W.
NOTE: The "Read to Your Bunny" cover art and above essay from the book
published by Scholastic Press are available for your use in reading and literacy
initiatives. Feel free to print these out.
Rosemary Wells
Copyright 1998更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
The Most Important Twenty Minutes Of Your Day
ALL OF US love our children more than anything in the world. In their first years
we feed them so they grow. We bring them to the doctor so they are healthy. We
strap them in car seats so they are safe.
But the most important thing in the first years of life is the growth of the mind and
spirit. This is when a child learns to love and trust, to speak and listen.
After a child turns two years old, these things are very difficult to learn or teach
ever again. Trusting, singing, laughing, and language are the most important
things in a young child’s life.
And so they must come first for mothers and fathers, too. Because we can never
have those years over again.
Every day, make a quiet, restful place for twenty minutes. Put your child in your
lap and read a book aloud. In the pages of the book you will find a tiny vacation
of privacy and intense love. It costs nothing but twenty minutes and a library
card.
Reading to your little one is just like putting gold coins in the bank. It will pay you
back tenfold. Your daughter will learn, and imagine, and be strong in herself.
Your son will thrive, and give your love back forever.
– R.W.
NOTE: The "Read to Your Bunny" cover art and above essay from the book
published by Scholastic Press are available for your use in reading and literacy
initiatives. Feel free to print these out.
Rosemary Wells
Copyright 1998更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net