Reading: Do you/Did you Read to your Children?

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I love to read and always have. I associate this love to being read to as a child. My mother also taught me how to treasure and appreciate books. I remember when my cousins used to come to visit from out of town. They would go through my bookcase, pull out books and many times write inside them. This horrified me and I used to dread when I got news that they were coming. I carried this tradition on when I had children of my own. They had lots of books and many were my own books that I had as young as 5 years old. That is how much I treasured my favorite books. Today my oldest daughter reads a lot. She has two children and two step children. She is carrying on the reading tradition with her kids. My other daughter with two kids also reads to her children. She is the oldest twin. I have divided up the books that I passed on to them that survived between these two daughters for their children. My third daughter and other twin is not married and does not have children. But she loves to read. I enjoy passing on books to her to read and we sometimes discuss books that we have both read. She never really took a liking to reading in school so this made me happy that she picked this habit back up. Do you read to your children? Do you let them read to you if they are learning to read? This is a way to help them in school and also learn new things that they otherwise would miss. Photo: Pixaby, public domain