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The First Fruits of Book Reading

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My oldest daughter reaped the first fruit of being read to www.bookweekonline.com .  She is now an extremely creative person. She enjoys creative writing, sculpture,  painting, and music. She can literally pick up ANY instrument and make something beautiful come out of it within 15 minutes. Try that by spending all your time on a Wii or hanging out at the mall. My daughter loves to read. She is on an accelerated school program, and making leaps and bounds in her education. My oldest daughter is the narrator in my children’s book “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” www.jerrybegly.com/tooth .  She’s well on her way to an interesting, and fulfilling life.

A Supernova of Benefits

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By now, you know how much I am a believer in reading to children. www.bookweekonline.com . The benefits of reading to your own kids . are a little bit like winning the lottery…only better. Let’s start with the obvious and oft stated benefits: Quality family time, making good memories, development of grammar, and even having a child get used to sitting still for periods of time. Let me take you much farther than that. Join my family as we burst out of here with a supernova of benefits from reading to our children…


9 Year Old After Dinner Speaker

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My 9 year old son is sitting next to me reading “The Speaker’s Desk Book”. It has “5000 Sparkling Epigrams” and “1187 Anecdotes” in addition to “Jewels of Thought…Oft-quoted Masterpieces of all time…” The reason he’s reading it is because he loves to read.  His mother and I have read to him since he was far too young to know what we were saying.  Now, instead of watching TV or playing video games, or texting his buddies, or surfing the net, he reads. And he DOES get to visit far away places and times and people and use his imagination, and build his vocabulary and become a more mature person.  Who knows? With resources like “The Speakers Desk Book” he may very well become a sought after speaker, or an eloquent statesman. Celebrate National Children’s Book Week ( www.bookweekonline.com )  by reading to your little ones. 

Spring Snowstorm

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Last night it snowed 6 inches, here at Chalet Begly in Marble, Colorado. Being on the south facing slope, the snow has pretty much melted already. What are you doing right now? Hopefully sleeping peacefully if you are living here in the States.  I get people visiting this website 24 hours a day, from around the world.  I’m well into my Jerry Begly Bloggathon 2010. In particular, I’m celebrating National Children’s Book Week ( www.bookweekonline.com )  until the 16th of May. If you haven’t had a good laugh today, pick up a copy of my children’s book “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” ( www.jerrybegly.com/tooth ). I guarantee that you will see yourself somewhere in the book. We’re having lots of fun with it, and you will too!

Making Memories with Books

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Here’s a dumb story I heard today:  A kid asked his dad if the dad could teach him how to fish.  So the dad went out and bought the boy a fishing video game. I hope you, the reader, aren’t that kind of parent.  Your kids will be grown and out of the house before you know it. As a co-worker once told me about raising children: “The days go too slow, and the years go too fast.”  Put down some memories that your children and grandchildren can reach back into when you’re gone. Reading to a child is one of the easiest and most memorable ways to do that. You can celebrate National Children’s Book Week www.bookweekonline.com by going to the library and getting some fun or interesting stuff to read. Or you can order my book “Dad the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” at www.jerrybegly.com/tooth.