Are we moving so fast these days that it makes more sense to let someone else, i.e. an electronic voice, read to our children than for us to do it ourselves? Isn't Mom or Dad's live voice a better conveyance than a microchip????
WE should do the reading and if we don't think we have time we should make the time. Children who are read to -- by people, not by machines -- do better in school, have better focus and usually become readers themselves. They will model what we do. If they never see us read, why should they think it's important?
Turn off the noise, all of it -- tv's, computers, video games, iPods, battery powered toys and books -- and READ. Do it for yourself. Do it for your children.
Books on tape have their place, but the youngest pre-readers really do need to hear and see a real person enjoying literature.
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