Book Dads is honored to be a part of Share A Story, Shape a Future. This is my first time to be participating and I couldn’t be happier to be one of the hosts for today’s theme: The Gift of Reading. For today’s post, I asked dads, bloggers and authors I know to answer the following question:
Write about the “gift” you received as a dad upon seeing your child read their first words? Or by seeing them just hold the book on their own for the very first time and leaf through the pages. Or by simply seeing them enjoying a book. Please feel free to write anything about the “gift” you received from your child’s exposure to reading.
Part 1 was posted earlier today. What follows is Part 2…
~ Alan Kercinik, Word Nerd & Dad Blogger from Chicago: @alankercinik / www.alwaysjacked.com
“Jack isn’t old enough to read, but is old enough to insist upon “Book! Book!” before he goes to bed. It is the best part of my day, coming home from work and bonding with him over a story or three. When we’re done, he takes his books to bed and pages through them, pointing at the things he knows and saying their names out loud. It’s an echo of my own childhood when I turn out the light and tell him to not stay up all night, reading.
When I get him in the morning, there he is, sitting up and paging through his books, and I smile and think that maybe he is already defying me. I would take this kind of disobedience every day.”
~ Read Aloud Dad, Child Literacy blogger at www.readalouddad.com / @readalouddad
“Incredible. Even though my 3-year 8-month old girl and boy do not know how to read yet, every day they “read” many more books than I manage to read! Guess why I’ve got this gift of a smile on my face every day?”
~ Why Is Daddy Crying, www.whyisdaddycrying / @whyisdaddycryin
“From chewing eight-page cardboard books, to sitting naked on the training potty eagerly trying to find “Waldo,” to listening to my many voices recount “Horton’s” heroic efforts to save t
It’s great to see dads sharing their love of reading with their kids.
Absolutely and thanks for being a part of it. Loved your post this morning too!
I love all of these posts. Thanks for inviting me to share mine.
Memories like these make the hard days just fade into the background! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you man for taking the time to share.
Exactly (today was a tough one but we got by!)