The importance of reading to your kids.

I am a firm believer that kids who are read to are more apt to become readers themselves. I also think that kids who are readers grow up to get better jobs. I know that even if they don't get better jobs, they at least have something to do while standing in the unemployment line. We read to our kids and they have both grown up to be readers. When my daughter was little she loved The Cat in the Hat. She even went through a period where it was the only book she would let me read to her at night. As a result of the repetition, I soon had the entire book memorized and would recite it as I showed her the pictures. She also must have had it memorized because she would stop me if I turned the pages in the wrong place. Her love of books continued throughout her childhood and she is now in law school. Interestingly enough she is specializing in laws involving property damage sustained by six-foot tall felines wearing funny hats.