new year, new thoughts: thanks for your wisdom, Maya Angelou
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Are there some books that your kids just LOVE but that you really don’t?
A few in that category have made their way onto our shelves (who knows how that happened, it’s a mischief!) and my kids keep asking me to read them over and over again. I hold my nose and do it, but I truly feel like I’m wasting my breath and my time, and can’t see how I’m doing any good to anyone.
Well, this week, I read a quote by Maya Angelou that made me think. She said:
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
Thank you Ms Angelou, for sharing your wonderfulness and wisdom. I’m taking it on board and I’ve resolved to stop trying to smuggle those books out of the house and cringing as I read them for the 10th time in the one day (!).
Instead, I will embrace the joy of children who want me to read to them and be grateful, immensely grateful, that they are forming a habit of and a passion for reading.
Do you have a quote that has inspired you and helped with the everyday? I’d really love to hear about it.
