PARENTING
BY AMANDA HAYWARD
WIN THE READING
BATTLE
It’s a never-ending struggle in many homes, but you CAN help your kids to love and excel in reading by making it a priority at home and an enjoyable experience as well.
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he day your enthusiastic kindergartener comes home reading with that little twinkle in their eye is truly a memorable and monumental day; the day they fall in love
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with reading and indeed become a reader. Years pass and in the blink of that twinkling eye, they are struggling to find a book they love and struggling to keep up — and loving their iPad games more. What happened? It’s a cycle some kids go through; parents, too. We want our kids to grow up to be good read-
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ers, but it’s harder than we had expected and tech distractions haven’t helped. That initial excitement of “Mommy, I can read!” can easily go into a downward spiral creating pure exhaustion for you. So how can you win this never-ending battle and actually bring the love of reading back amid the reading loss?
