Sweet Times Reading Together

I love what Consuelo Munoz de Ruiz, a child development specialist, states on the back cover of the Lae Lae books, "Reading with your children makes family ties stronger, opens new horizons, teaches the young ones new concepts, vocabulary, morals and ethics."  Consuelo helped her husband with his pediatric practice for more than 20 years.  Together they saw thousands of families and she said that, consistently, the children who were read to were the most well adjusted and happiest of all the children that they saw.

I so agree with her statement.  Books bring a whole new world into a child's life and the reading experience provides "together time" closeness for both the parent or caregiver and the child.  

I love it when I visit my grandson Enzo and he asks me if I have brought the Lae Lae books. Now, in school as a first reader, he reads the Lae Lae stories to me where I used to read them to him.  And now he enjoys creating new stories in the story telling section and completing the activities at the end of the book. He has grown up with the books and the puzzles and games that were too hard for him at first are now easy. 

When Zoe, my oldest granddaughter, was just his age, we read together and that was, in part, the impetus for my developing the Lae Lae collection. And her sparkly creative little spirit was what inspired me to create the Lae Lae character. 

I can't emphasize enough the importance of the "together time" experience of reading a good childhood book. The sharing and learning experience cannot be surpassed.