How can I get my kids excited about reading?

The Harry Potter craze swept the globe for the last time this summer with the release of the seventh and final installment of J.K. Rowling’s beloved series. Since its July 21 release, parents worldwide have witnessed a magical phenomenon in their children—they put down the video game paddle and picked up a book. While this phenomenon may have been short-lived, it proved one thing: kids can enjoy reading. All they need is the proper encouragement, a good book and maybe a bargain or two.

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Mothers. Much has been written about, dedicated to, analyzed, scrutinized and attributed to this pillar of our existence. Over the years, the cliché of the patient on the couch being asked “Why do you hate your mother?” has become as familiar as Toll House® cookies and Goodnight Moon.

We blame the ‘refrigerator mothers’ of the 50’s, working mothers in the 70’s, we point fingers at coddling, aloofness, guilt, rigidity, permissiveness. Mother’s it seems, have fought a losing battle over the years.

I admit, I did my share of “mother blame” through the therapy-laden decades in which I raised my children.

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