From: Laurie Holmquist <lholm>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 11:02:44 -0600

Sonja Sones, I just had to respond to your last comment, that you still read to your daughter at age 13 and hope she will continue to indulge you for years yet. How fortunate for you. I agree that some of the most unappealing books to my husband and I (or scary) like "Goodnight Moon" and
"Where the Wild Things Are" also beame our children's favorites. However, the night will be seared into my consciousness forever, when our daughter, at age 7, put her hand gently on my arm one night, in the middle of the
"Little House" books, and said, "Mommy, this will go faster if I can read it my myself." Thank goodness I still had another younger child to read to. I was devastated. She is a doctor now, and we laugh about that night. But she and her adult brother are beginning to fight over books they loved as children, and now want to take into the homes they are making for themselves. Do not think that reading to your children when they are very small does not pay off far into the future - it does!!

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