Part of bettering a child’s education is improving their focus and desire to learn, and that all can come free of charge straight from the parents. The biggest success tool our children have is their mother, father, siblings, grandparents, and guardians there to help them anytime they need help and to be an active role each day in the child’s education. This means missing our favorite show or hitting the “record” button on the DVR to spend time right next to them as they study their math work and reading.
Even if they seem to know it all and do well on their report cards, it’s important to be there as a continuous force in their learning to inspire them to keep going. One of the easiest things parents can do is grab a book, even a short one, or a chapter to read with the kids.
We have forgotten about those fun trips to the local library and reading a bedtime story, but books are actually so much better than today’s television shows as they inspire better grammar, learning, and they are far more appropriate than what’s on the TV. Books spark imagination and creativity as kids are taken on wonderous journeys through reading enchanting tales.
Amazing authors are all over the world and here are a few terrific books for all ages you should look into buying and reading with the kids or get for the older ones to read to themselves. These books might also be great to keep the kids using their brains as summer vacation comes around the corner.
Fur Face by Jon Gibbs is available on the Kindle now from Amazon for only $2.99 and if you have a smartphone, the Kindle app is free! This book is written for the Young Adult genre such as teens and pre-teens, download your copy here! While you’re there, take a look through the suggested reads as well and buy a couple of those; your children, or you, won’t be disappointed, most ages will love them. By the way, they are way better than Twilight.
Or how about Jake and Jesus by Kelly Hagen for younger kids in preschool and Kindergarten? You may also want to introduce your kids to the classics you loved growing up, like Harold and the Purple Crayon.
The Going To Bed Book is the perfect book for obvious times of day and for little ones, this is a fabulously fun book, Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes…
Middle school and high school girls will love And Both Were Young by Madeline L’Engle about a young girl in a Swiss boarding school who meets Paul and her neatly scheduled life gets put in the shredder to become chaos and a dangerous love. What is Paul hiding though? Find out.
If the name Madeline L’Engle sounds familiar, that’s because it should, she’s written dozens of novels like her famous A Ring of Endless Light. That’s the one with the dolphins in the cove and the young girl dealing with a love square as her family takes care of their dying grandpa in a small island town.
Moms, don’t think we forgot about you either. We know you’re tired, need a shower, and an escape portal so for you, we found some tremendous books to read page by page or chapter by chapter, depending how much time you have, when you get a break or after the kids fall asleep.
A few years back I read a series by Carly Phillips that you might want to entice yourself with before bed, and let your husband read a couple lines from. Wink Wink. The Bachelor, The Playboy, and The Heartbreaker are a three part series about three brothers notorious for avoiding marriage and children, and their mother just wants grandbabies before she dies, will she get them? And what type of sexy adventures are on each page? Give The Bachelor a read and you’ll want to read the whole series!
Writers have put their pen and soul into millions of great reads all over bookstores, Amazon, and ereaders like Kindle so take a browse together and find something wonderful to read for every family member, anytime.
