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[quote=Anonymous]That's great, OP! The secret to having kids love books is to love books yourself. They don't need parents who read to them as much as they need to see those parents read for themselves, for pleasure, and choose to to do so when they could be doing something else. Imitation does the rest. So leverage that. Instead of reading to yourself, after their bedtime or when they're away, you read when they can see you read. I've messed up a few dinners because I couldn't put my book down. Quote passages to them, and explain what you love about them. My kids have actually fallen off their chairs laughing when I read aloud a few hilarious Bill Bryson lines, for example. [/quote]
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