Originally Posted by M.Elizabeth

My boys loved Cat in the Hat and other Seuss stories when they were much younger. My youngest (age 32) now reads these stories to his two children - not quite 3 and not quite 6. Glad I passed on the thought that reading is so important. As a retired 8th grade teacher, I could tell in a very short time after school started which kids had been read to and encouraged from a very young age.