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We Need To Tell Kids Flat Out: Reading Is Not Optional.

Fifty Percent Of All Meaningful Education Takes Place In The Home. What Do You Share With Your Child? You Share Your Interests. I Was A Book Person. I Read With My Son. My Wife Is An Artist. She Dragged His Little Butt Around To Museums. He's An Illustrator Of Children's Books.

I Keep Threatening To Keep A Formal Journal, But Whenever I Start One It Instantly Becomes An Exercise In Self-consciousness. Instead Of A Journal I Manage To Have Dozens Of Notebooks With Bits And Pieces Of Stories, Poems, And Notes. Almost Every Thing I Do Has Its Beginning In A Notebook Of Some Sort, Usually Written On A Bus Or Train.

We All Know We Should Eat Right And We Should Exercise, But Reading Is Treated As If It's This Wonderful Adjunct.

That's What's Wrong With Women. They Want You To Wait For Them Until They Get Ready And Then They Don't Even Tell You How They Feel.