Twenty minutes every day. Doesn’t matter if it’s in the car, the grocery line or snuggled up on the couch, reading with a child makes that child a lifelong reader and learner.

“No matter the location, it’s that engagement time with the child. And I stress the word ‘with’ in that sentence,” said Kristin Norell, CEO of The Children’s Reading Foundation. “And, yes, we recognize the time constraint because everyone is so busy right now with their lives. But it doesn’t have to be a 20 solid minutes. It can be a minute here, two minutes there. It can happen while sitting at the breakfast table and reading the back of a cereal box or stopping at an intersection when you’re in the car and asking your child what the sign says and then talking about the color of it. Any moments throughout the day c

See Full Page