How to Help Your Child Love Reading
How to Help Your Child Love Reading GEMMA G. SUBIGCA Turn Pages into Possibilities Why My Mom’ s Bedtime Stories Made Me a Reader (And Why It Still Matters Today) When I was a child, bedtime in our house didn’t mean silence—it meant story time. While most kids drifted off to sleep with lullabies, I fell asleep to the sound of my mom’s voice, flipping through pages of storybooks filled with fairy tales, friendly animals, and magical lands. The funny thing? She wasn’t even reading to me. She was reading to my baby sister. I just happened to be nearby—close enough to listen, quiet enough not to interrupt. Night after night, I would sit there pretending not to care, but secretly, I was soaking in every word. Her voice was warm, steady, and full of feeling. No lectures. No lessons. Just beautiful words and imagination. And I didn’t know it then, but I was being taught something far more powerful than ABCs—I was learning to love language. The Surprising Result When ...