144: Reading Out Loud and a Generous Christmas

This week, I'm answering some questions about reading out loud:

• What is our reading out loud process?
• Should we have a time (for reading) built into the flow (of our day)?
• What if this time crowds out other projects our children are working on individually?
• How do we choose books?

 

I talk about

• Why I never enjoyed listening to books being read aloud as a child
• How I used to regard reading out loud as the dessert of my kids' education rather than the main course.
• How we should move over and let our kids occupy the reader's chair
• How we have to be patient while our kids are learning how to read out loud
• My reading-out-loud experiment: What happened when I stopped correcting my daughter when she made reading-out-loud mistakes

 

I also return to the topic of Christmas presents:

• Do presents belong only to the commercial side of Christmas or do they have spiritual significance?
• Can we tell others to be generous?
• Or do we only learn about generosity by experiencing it ourselves?

 

Show Notes

Blog Posts

Respecting Kids and Christmas Presents

The Reading Out Loud Experiment

A Main Course of Reading Out Loud

Listening

 

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