Parents

Read to Your Children
- by - Claudia Southward Read to your children. Twenty minutes a day. You have the time And so do they. Read while doing laundry. Read while dinner cooks. Tuck a child in your arms And reach for books. Hide the remote. Let the computer cool. Let your children hear good stories Before going off to school. Read in the morning. Read over noon. <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read by the light of  <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Good Night Moon <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Turn the pages together, <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Sitting close as you'll fit <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">While a small voice beside you says, <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">"Hey, please don't quit" <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read to me riddles <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">And read to me rhymes. <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read to me stories <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Of magical times. <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read to me tales <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">About castles and Kings. <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read to me stories <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Of fabulous things. <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read to me pirates, <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">And read to me knights, <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read to me dragons <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">And dragon-back flights. <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Read to me spaceships <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">And cowboys and then <span style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Please read them again!